Reply to: £40 voucher for Virgin wines

[d000hg]

You truly are a spectacular moron even by CUK standards.

This is like a double negative in maths right? If a moron calls you a moron...


I would say an £80 case online is going to be at least comparable with £8/bottle wine from Tesco. If that's below your taste both are going to be bad (I doubt a low-level permie like you can afford £15) but people quite often compliment the wine we have without being told. Most of our peer group do just buy whichever wine is reduced the most to £5-6 but then we're not paying much more than that.

[Pondlife]

Just join the wine society and stop messing about.

[norrahe]

Same vineyards though.
I haven't had a single decent Laithwaite wine in the 2 crates I sampled.
Mind you decent is relative - I'd call a £15 Barolo decent.

Stopped buying off them years ago, as the quality went downhill.

Though Naked wines look a good option

[MarillionFan]

£3.80 for a pint of stella in my local! Jesus. I'm going to be buying cheap wine instead.

Thanks for the voucher. Can you recommend the £2.99 Polish Semillion Anti Freeze?

[sasguru]

Yep - agree. They have different buyers / marketeers / systems / call centre. Direct Wines just happen to have bought Virgin.

I drink a fair bit of Laithwaites wines - IMO some are pretty good for the price.

Same vineyards though.
I haven't had a single decent Laithwaite wine in the 2 crates I sampled.
Mind you decent is relative - I'd call a £15 Barolo decent.

[sasguru]

I said I like corks better, I didn't make any comment on how they affect the wine. Since opening the wine is part of the pleasure though, it makes a difference.

Saying Virgin/Laithwaites are the same because they have the same owner is like saying these are equivalent:

So you think Laithwaites is like a Jag? Or is that Virgin?
It's mugs like you marketing was designed for.
Mind you you even fell for that old Jewish ad agency: the Apostles
You truly are a spectacular moron even by CUK standards.

[mudskipper]

I said I like corks better, I didn't make any comment on how they affect the wine. Since opening the wine is part of the pleasure though, it makes a difference.

Saying Virgin/Laithwaites are the same because they have the same owner is like saying these are equivalent:

Yep - agree. They have different buyers / marketeers / systems / call centre. Direct Wines just happen to have bought Virgin.

I drink a fair bit of Laithwaites wines - IMO some are pretty good for the price.

[d000hg]

Laithewaites and Virgin wine is tulipe. Sourced from the same crappy vineyards.
And if you knew anything about wine you would know that corked wine is not necessarily superior to screw-top. In fact it doesn't matter.

I said I like corks better, I didn't make any comment on how they affect the wine. Since opening the wine is part of the pleasure though, it makes a difference.

Saying Virgin/Laithwaites are the same because they have the same owner is like saying these are equivalent:

[DimPrawn]

Some of it is unacceptably bad. But it's packaged and marketed well so appeals to the ignorant wannabes.

That's why I posted the voucher here.

Captive audience.

(plus I get a 10% kickback on every penny spent).

[sasguru]

I must say I was a virgin wine member, but as you say, found all their wine "not to my taste", some of revolting infact, and so soon gave them the boot. I like to buy my wine from the vintage section in Waitrose which is 5 minutes from my house.

Some of it is unacceptably bad. But it's packaged and marketed well so appeals to the ignorant wannabes.

[sasguru]

I've had so many wank wines for under a fiver at Tesco, than good ones...

If you consider that the duty on a bottle of wine is about £3 regardless of quality when you buy a £5 pound bottle you're buying tulipe.
HTH

[DimPrawn]

Laithewaites and Virgin wine is tulipe. Sourced from the same crappy vineyards.
And if you knew anything about wine you would know that corked wine is not necessarily superior to screw-top. In fact it doesn't matter.

HTH, but IDI

I must say I was a virgin wine member, but as you say, found all their wine "not to my taste", some of revolting infact, and so soon gave them the boot. I like to buy my wine from the vintage section in Waitrose which is 5 minutes from my house.

[sasguru]

I'm with laithewaites and it's pretty good. I don't know if comparable bottles are cheaper than in Tesco but in Tesco I wouldn't know what to pick anyway.
One nice thing is bottles always have corks, not a screw-top in sight.

Laithewaites and Virgin wine is tulipe. Sourced from the same crappy vineyards.
And if you knew anything about wine you would know that corked wine is not necessarily superior to screw-top. In fact it doesn't matter.

HTH, but IDI

[ChrisPackit]

Most wine is cheaper down the supermarket. So you're really paying over the odds for home delivery.

I don't know if it is cheaper from the supermarkets though. Yes, you won't get your famous brands with the internet based ones, as they sponsor smaller vineyards but as a quick calculation:

1 Case of 12 Bottles of Red @ £8.99 bottle - £107.88
Free Delivery over £100.00 - £0.00
£50 Voucher off (all over the net)

= £57.88 / 12 Bottles = £4.82 a bottle.

I've had so many wank wines for under a fiver at Tesco, than good ones...

[mudskipper]

Laithwaites and Virgin Wines have the same parent company (Direct Wines) although the range on offer is different.