Do-Not-Buy-This-Again: Silver Bay Point Red

[major_clanger]

I am making this post to remind myself never, ever to buy this excuse for wine again. Imagine a blend of the most ineptly-made mulled wine you've ever had with a bottle of Ribena and you might come within shouting distance of approaching the horror of this, this... I don't know what to call it, but it ain't wine.

Comments

[attimes-bracing.livejournal.com]

I hate red wine and I like this one...

Good thing we got married - we'll never fight over who drank the wine.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

A British wine? Ah yes, not a good idea.

(I have 5 unopened bottles of British wine, not sure what the best use of it is. If only I could con somebody into swapping it for some English wine.)

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

I believe that's the same stuff I buy at £2.80 a bottle from Tesco for cooking purposes. It works okay for that! (First Cape Merlot has also just been relegated to that; undrinkably thin)

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

I too use it for cooking. I certainly wouldn't drink the stuff.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

You should only cook with wine you're prepared to drink.

Whisky though is another matter...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I never drink... wine... but shall avoid the stuff when buying presents.

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

We tried the red box version of this. I don't know a thing about wines but even I knew it was insipid. Herself drank it because she'd paid for it.

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

I believe the phrase you're looking for might be "fermented grape must" which we once found on the cheapest bottle in majestic or similar when buying booze for an OUSFG Xmas party: i.e. a wine-like drink that was so cheaply made that legally they weren't allowed to call it wine.

We bought one bottle out of morbid curiosity, and passed it round with cries of "Good god, it's foul. Do you want to try it?".

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

A step up from the bottle of Black Tower that haunted OUSFG parties for a while like a ghost seeking a graceful exit from the afterlife.