MASTER OF WINE TASTES CHEAPEST WINES IN THE WORLD - THE WINE TASTING
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2021
- And I am not really sure whether I am looking forward to this tasting
Normally I am trying the greatest wines on this channel but I was asked by a few of you to taste the cheapest wines instead … and I obliged.
I will blind taste these 4 wines without knowing anything about them except, that they are very cheap.
I am tasting great wines regularly but what many people do not know is that as a student I earned some extra money by tasting mainly cheap wines. This company was doing quality assurance for supermarkets and discounters and we were tasting some of the cheapest wines, spirits, and coffee in the world. Back then you knew that the day would be tough when they brought out the Tetra Packs … Even though I rarely drink wine that costs less than 10 Euros I still find it very interesting seeing what happens at the bottom of the price range too.
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I am lucky to be living in Argentina at the moment, and here you can find cracking reds for as low as 500 pesos, or 5 USD!
Beginning to binge watch your videos. I like your humour and the fact you clearly love good wine but aren't snobby about budget or people's ability to afford cheaper vino! Also I love it when you say 'normal' as you sound a lot like Jurgen Klopp (I'm a Liverpool fan). Danke/gracias/grazie/merci and....oh, thanks.
Thank you!
The comment on Wine 3, the magenta plonk, was classic: Oh, oh, oh (frown on face”🤣
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your face when you tried the Rose was priceless - there was no need to say anything. it was clear LOL
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I'm in Canada, there is no such thing as a wine for $5. Cheap and cheerful is $8 at best and you cannot drink them. If those wines were here, they really would be over 10 bucks. Love the vids!
I thought Australia was expensive for alcohol especially spirits because of the excise tax, but I think the cheapest wine is around $2.99 a bottle, and a few years ago you could get 5 Litres of wine in cask for around 15 bucks and on special for 3 casks for $33.
Same here in Finland, the cheapest wine possible is around 8 €. But on the other hand, you can find some very drinkable wines that only cost like 10 €, the quality can improve greatly with just a few extra euros.
That was a fabulous story Konstantin , I'm always gob smacked at an MWs skill set 👍
Awesome content as always. Keep it up! Greetings from Sweden.
Thank you!
I didn’t realise you could get a degree tasting wine. I regret my life choices now
Night Train, a red, is very high alcohol and usually is less than $1.50 a bottle. ☺️
Nice video. I like the grocery store wine tastings. I live in Sicily, and you're right! Definitely easy to get some cheap wine here. Lowest I'll go is around 6 Euro.
Thanks Eric!
Thank you for the great contents! surely subscribe!!!
Thanks Jongchan
The lowest I go for wine is around 12-15 Swiss Francs. You can get some decent white wines from varieties such as Petite Arvine to go with a raclette or a fondue at that price here in Switzerland!
Great video thank you ! I'm a student sommelier and learning so much about wine from these tasting videos. Would love you to do a test on New Zealand wines ❤️🙏
Great suggestion!
My wife set me up over a few evenings with a "price blind" tasting of a mix of Fresh Market wines and some from our cellar. After the exercise we decided the breaking point for us was about $20, mostly old world. With import costs that's probably $10/bottle eq. Below that we just didn't enjoy the overall experience.
I have paid £4 in Tesco England for Sicilian Rosso, perfectly drinkable, also Sauvignon Blanc, and Chardonnay from Australia - all enjoyable at the lowest level & I would consider buying them in the future for a light refreshing choice. I don't always want to drink heavier texture wine
Great video, thank you! I have started trying to only drink really good wines and aiming for £15 - £30, in the UK a lot of the bottle price in the sub £5 bracket goes on tax. I have just treated myself to the Coravin as this means I can buy good wine without worrying I won’t finish it as I live on my own. I love your videos, keep ‘em coming 😊
Thanks Val! Yeah Coravin helps when you want to drink different great wines in small quantities.
In den 1990ern waren es vielleicht ca. 3 DM für chilenischen Cabernet Sauvignon bei Aldi.
Das war zur Schulzeit mein Entry in das Weinerlebnis.
My cheapest go-to wine is a 5 dollar merlot from Chile called 18. It doesn't wow me obviously, but it does make ordinary Friday nights more enjoyable.
Nice video mate. Cheers from Spain 🍷🇪🇸
Thanks 👍
Great video again! Can guess everybody was there at some point: want to drink something with friends with only a few coins in the pocket....
According to my experience wines under 6€ are rather generic and I really admire you for managing to distinguish between different varieties in that segment! Personally, I consider wines in range from 6€ to 12€ acceptable for everyday use.
On the west coast of the US, the cheapest wines tend to be Australian bottom shelf or mega corporation brands like Chateau Ste Michelle. There are also grocery chain-owned $3-4 of wine but they end up being some of the most abysmal drinking experiences. Hollow mystery wine undefined and undesirable.
I was reading an article about a journalist trying to find out where 3 Wishes (Whole Foods' 3 buck chuck) grew their grapes and supplied their glass bottles. They weren't able to uncover any details except "maybe the grapes are in California somewhere?" Factory farm slaughterhouse winemaking lol
I like to taste 5-10$ cheap wine against mid and high end wines a lot to remind myself why wines can and should be expensive
Yes, the winemaker can do a lot with this extra income.
Living in Germany my entry level for red wines, which I mostly drink, is round about 10 EUR including taxes. Would suggest Château Lauretan for a perfect experience in this price region, there you have a very good price/performance ratio.
Will you consider a tasting of Kirkland Signature wines, marketed by Costco? The wines are inexpensive and receive high scores from Wine Spectator. I’ve enjoyed these wines. Thanks.
Just got home from germany yesterday, i filled the var with Wine from REWE. the cashier thought i was crazy but it was so cheap. Here in sweden the cheapest wined are around 8 Euro
"I'm not going to drink it, but it's all right" 🤣 I'm relieved to know that tasting lots of cheap wine doesn't necessarily destroy one's palate!! Funny video! In 2021, maybe 7 EUROS is the less I go for a bottle. But I live in Brazil, wine is super expensive around here 🙁
Too funny. Loved it.
I don't drink wine's but getting ready to try and make some wine's for couple of ladies friends of mine.I'm not sure if you like this type or had it before but one of them love's Chateau Ste Michelle Harvest Select Sweet Riesling ,a little on the lower end price wise.If you have tried it what would you recommend that might be a cost a little more that comes closer to the taste?
Economy German style wine😎
Nice introduction thanks for video
Thank you!
$20 is the lowest...My palette has matured and I will not go backwards!
The best thing in this review is "...on average Germans have paid $2,78 per bottle of wine which sometimes(sic!) makes me wonder how are they paying for the bottle, the capsule, the label, the cork and the transport. Is there any money left for the wine?" I just love it. Simply a miracle!! Isn't it?
Keep on having such a a time-out from time to time. It can only add a spice to your fabulous talks on wine. Thank you & all the best!
Thanks!
Hi, Konstantin.
The cheapest wine what I have bought ever is Piccini Chianti.
2.99€ at Supermarket PAM in Milano.
However, it was an offer.
And wine was quite good.😉🍷
The lowest price I pay is $20 USD because there really isn’t good wine for less than that where I live. Usually that means a Spanish Cava or other Old World white. I wish there were options like you sampled around here. I am okay though because I live in Napa Valley, California and do get to enjoy many World Class wines. Keep up the good work, love the content you are presenting!!!
Thank you!
$15 is the lowest, but I prefer $20. Thank you! We enjoy your videos. Cheers! 🍷🍷
We love you Konstantin!!
Thanks Chris!!
Here in Chile US$ 3.5 Cono Sur Bicicleta Carmenere. Here there are drinkable wines from US$ 2.5
So random video request, I recently found a calvet bordeaux chateau mauric 2014 vintage in a little shop in the middle of the Kalahari desert in Botswana Africa….I brought it and it’s twin, the last two left because it was different the only none South African wine in the shop….also probably the oldest vintage in the shop. Now this is a budget wine I paid less then £6 but it was by far one of the most interesting bottles of wine I have tried. A good brown aged look in colour. Any way my question, video idea is can you get a few bottles of say 2014 or 13 Bordeaux budget wines between 5-10 uk pounds and do a taste test, see how they have aged?
Been loving your videos, currently in the uk so enjoying some variety.
Thanks for such great content
Wine cost so much more here in the States. I'm guessing that includes import costs.
I haven't reached a low-cap yet as I'm relatively new to, and am still learning wine. I do love that there are decent wines to be had in the $10-20.00 range, though.
Great content! New subbie!
Thanks! Yes, wine is very cheap in Germany as there is no tax on wine and the market is very competitive.
Here in California, there's a brand called Line 39 that can sometimes be had for as low as $6 on discount. It's a good budget weeknight wine. The absolute cheapest wine I've ever had is what I currently have opened: a 3 liter boxed malbec that was being discontinued at about a 90% discount. It's frankly not very good, but at that price I can put up with it for a while. Other than that, I'm in a few wine clubs for local wineries and they're in the $20 to $30 range.
Line 39 here in colorado too at Costco for 7.99! Pinot noir. Amazing for the price!!
Great video as always!
Could you explain why exactly it's easier to produce higher quality white wine in the lower price regions, compared to reds?
There are different factors: Red grapes are often more expensive, the process is more time consuming and more equipment is required. People are also prepared to pay more for red wines in all price segments from my experience.
Lots of fun!! I would say never less than 8-9 euros...
But then there is the Swedish tax system to consider..The cheapest here are about 7 Euros
I really enjoy your show! Greetings from Sweden
Thank you Patrik!
No, the cheapest wines in Sweden come in bag-in-box with a price of around 16€, which is 4€/bottle...
Here in Argentina you can find some interesting but obviously not wow wine for 5-7 usd, specially young, fresh whites but also some young malbec too. Even some supermarket white (Torrontes for example) is more than acceptable for the 1.3-1.5 usd they charge you right now for them here
Way to go Konstantin👍 Entertaining and educational. Wines not selling at this price point in Sweden. The state monopoly sees to that. Actually thats not just a bad thing. Not an expert but wines sold here need to be of a certain quality to be sold by the state. Price difference between cheap and quality wines surprisingly small. Thanks for doing this👍
Thank you Anders!
Do you happen to have a video with wine suggestions in the 10-15 $ range?
I tend to find I can get pretty good white wines for $10 or less here in Australia but struggle getting a good red wine for under $20 a bottle
cool episode...
Thank you !
yesterday yen5,500 chenin from the loire. great but too expensive.
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Occasionally I will spend as little as Au $4.95 because you never know (most times I'd never try again). I have found one though at just Au $5.99 per lt, that represents very good value as a Sunday arvo quaffer, it's quite a reasonable drink.
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I make my own wine so if I am buying it I am usually doing so at a local winery that I am visiting. It is cheaper to buy the same wine in a liquor store but I figure at the winery more of the profit goes to the wine maker and I like to support them as much as possible. I am always amazed that with the cost of land, labor, bottles, equipment, shipping and storage that wine can be sold as cheap as it is. I know volume makes up the difference, but more volume requires more land (though cheap wines can be less discriminating on how many clusters they leave on the vine). In the U.S. there is something called 2 buck chuck (sold at Trader Joes). 2 US dollars for a bottle of wine is insanely low. The profit to the wine maker must be less than a cent per bottle.
It is usually I good idea to buy at the source if you can!
if haribo ever decides to make wine it probably would look like number 3.
Depends on the grape variety: I spent around 5 Euros for Müller-Thurgau bottles which are still good (sure not great) wines because its not that complicated to produce a good one out of this variety for a low price but if I am going for Riesling I would not buy such cheap bottles. Inspite of this I have already bought some semi-dry Rieslings from the Mosel region which were really good for only 6,50 Euros but this only works if you buy direktly from the wine producer in the region and is also not typical for me. I don't really know but if I had to guess the average bottle of wine in my cellar might cost 20 to 25 Euros.
Thanks for sharing Alex!
One of our local wine/liquor stores at times has a special deal for wine of buy one and get the second bottle for a buck (usa dollar). Have scored some nice wine including a 40$ chateau neuf depap. Should have bought much more. Just to be clear I’m a craft beer drinker and am currently enjoying a candle power 2023 spiced saison from Grimm out of Brooklyn New York
In America, if at a wine shop, prob like $12-18 if old world, lesser known regions could be closer to 12, also depends on the importer. If new world, $15 is lowest, if California then you never know.
Also in Canada, wines are expensive, even the cheapest ones. They are highly taxed and I suspect the mark ups are high. They pass through too many hands before they get to the consumer. Locally made wines ( I am too kind to judge them) reflect the high prices as they can can actually price their product up there with imported wines and sell them. Getting wines as cheap as three times the price of those featured on this episode is impossible, and I suspect that many of the products sold here are ones that the European market largely shuns. I envy Europeans who can buy decent wine at affordable prices.
i rarely go below yen1,000. about usd$10. l like baron de lestac white bordeaux at that price.
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4€... But it's some for me, some for the dish I'm cooking.
Interesting what you say regarding cork and ageing. Are you then suggesting that ageing wine with a screw cap isn't possible? I hear many conflicting things regarding this so I'm a bit lost! Just found your channel, looks great so far, consider me subbed!
Thanks! No, you can aged wine under screw cap and depending on the type of screw cap they will age differently compared to cork. I made a video about closures - check that out for more info.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine yeah, I saw that just after I wrote the comment 😆. Is there a certain price point where we can start to see good quality screw caps used? Thanks for your reply 😊
I don't know why this wasn't on my feed earlier. I've been enjoying (binge watching) your videos a lot and this one is high up on my favourites. I say "if it's bad we can cook with it" and conversely think beef in Barolo is a crime against humanity. I'm surprised that nothing from Bordeaux or La Mancha was on the table. There's definitely more content for you to provide in the budget end of the market, but sorry to make you go through it (touch of Schadenfreude though).
I do 4 dollar bottles at the gas station sometimes. lol. but barefoot is it. And I like darkhorse.
I prefer the really rough cheap Spanish reds to the alcoholic Kool Aid we get from California at five times the price.
But California is very aware of what their market wants--and that is what the bottom end of the market wants in the US. The next step up here, is also very sugary and fruity.
We can get very cheap wine from Chile that is less objectionable to my pallette 😊
Box wine for eco-friendliness. 3 liters for US$12 to $25 or even more. No glass, cardboard and a little plastic.
Nice video! If it is available, could you make a video about German wine regions? It would be better if they're not in hypes so that I could get some bottles without paying too much.
I should! And I will try to find some affordable wines, even though German wines, in general, are fairly affordable.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine I've tried some bottles of Mosel riesling, and the quality over price were good!
Why drink any wine at all if it's not worth at least $6.99 in the USA? ... the likelihood of disappointment is just too high. And I was taught as a German child not to waste food, so I feel guilty not finishing things. My average price is $12.99 and I find good wines at Costco for as little as $8.99, mostly Malbecs, probably the equivalent of about $12-15 at regular stores. But good wine should be a treat, so I go upscale in smaller quantities, though I'm not enough of a connoisseur to really appreciate wines over $29. Can you please do a tasting or vlog of Porto, or is that not your thing?
Please try italian Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone white wine from Italy its great and cheap!
the lowest price with really good wine - less 10 eur - Lambrusco!! Lambrusco di Sorbara from several top producers of Emilia-Romagnia are very-very nice!!
I love that stuff too. My favorite is the Grasparossa "Guerro" from Cavaliera
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Cavicchioli Lambrusco di Sorbara Vigna del Cristo, both from Paltrinieri Lambrusco Sorbara - Leclisse and Radice, Cleto Chiarli Vecchia Modena and Lambrusco Fondatore.
I'd say, the cheapest I got was about 8-10 Euro. Normally those in the 10 Euro range are for Apéros. Apéro wines are allowed to be more light and easy to dring. For more quality and "better Stories" I go for Riesling from 15 - 35. But it depends, sometimes I had luck to have a 9 Euro wines I loved to dring, and I also had 50 Euro Wine which was awfull (for me).
Btw, you are doing a great job as youtuber. Very nice channel. Thank you and keep going.
PS. do test more Riesling. Show us which one of 2020 is a must try. :)
Thanks! I will do more videos on Riesling!
In Supermarket the lowest price was EUR 4,99 at this price you can get a drinkable wine or to make a sauce sometimes. I also bought directly wines for about EUR 5,00 but now they starts at 7 or 8 Euro … normal wines with a good quality cost about 10-20 …
White and Rosé: around 10€
Red and sparkling: around 12€
Exception: Asti Spumante, which I buy once in a while. It costs 8€ in Sweden.
Thanks for sharing
I'm enjoying your videos. However, if I can give some constructive criticism, the audio recording on your voice is very distracting. There's a weird echo like talking inside a bucket. A lapel mic might help.
I know a winemaker in Pfalz from which I can get a good white wine for about 7-8€ and I only have to pay the wine because he wants the bottle back, I wonder how they make such cheap wines when only the bottle label and cork costs about 2€.
A wine from Sicily with 12% alc. tells you all you need to know.
In Sweden I wouldn't go below 79 SEK/7,75 € as a general rule and Systembolaget doesn't have bottled wine for less than 49 SEK/4,8 €
I could smell the strawberries from the rosé. What an odd colour. Looked like jelly before it has set!
Living in Switzerland, 12 CHF ($13.50) for a White and around CHF 15 ($16.50) for a Red are my lower boundaries. Yes, there are for sure wines that cost less that are drinkable, but with your words, those wines do not tell stories I like to listen to and are not worth the time I spend with them. I rather drink water from the tap and skip „wine“ at 5 CHF a couple of times and then go for a decent bottle. I also doubt that it is possible to produce very cheap wines in a sustainable way and I am not talking „organic“ here…
BTW: Great video!
Thanks - I agree.
Interesting the Italian producer put 'trocken" on label instead of dry. Is that just for the German market or in general?
Yes, thats a special label for the German market.
Lowest point depends, if I use it to marinade meats I'll go as low as €3. For drinking I aim about €7-9, I can taste a little difference at higher price points, but I tend to like it less. It gets a little too sour and tannic for my taste.
You should maybe try some high end Zinfandels - they tend to be less tannic and "sour" even at the higher end.
yet quality wines are now in screwcaps because they are superior to corks that rot or leak.Loving your videos and your style.
Schönes Video. Unter 8 Euro gehe ich regelmäßig nicht. Zwischen 9 und 14 Euro bekommt schon einige sehr schöne Tropfen.
Das sehe ich auch so.
Those ain't cheap. "Taste" the Peter Mertes Domkellerstolz! It used to cost 79cents, fond teenage memories. Goes really well with ice tea 1:1.
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next we will ask you to rate box wines?? lol
What glasses are you using?
Most of the time Riedel Performance and Veritas, but I also have the Wine Wings series. I also have glasses from Zwiesel, Zalto, Zieher, Gabriel, Sophienwald ...
The cheapest I've ever enjoyed was Verdicchio di Matelica from Collestefano, found one couple years back (2016 vintage, a good one) for 7,20 € on sale, and I'm not alone thinking it's a real bargain at that price.
Sounds pretty good but I have not tasted this wine.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine It's not like an hidden gem, available on several eshop here in Italy
Lowest for drinking 5€ from the supermarket, lowest for cooking 3€.
No supermarket wines with few exclusions: Torres (Viña Sol, Coronas, Gran Coronas), Penfolds. If somebody comes visiting me and wants to drink wine but has no clue, they are just fine and nobody gets hurt. I stopped drinking cheap wine many years ago, usually I need to spend 12-15 € min. I think the price range 15 to 25 € is very difficult, some real gems there (Sancerre), but very often they are overpriced for what you get. So I mainly stay in the lower range with wines from producers I know meanwhile or I spend some extra money from time to time for something special (e.g. Chateau de Beaucastel; some small vineyards from Pomerol or St. Emilion).
Thanks for sharing!
Well when I buy wholesale I will sometimes find wines on closeout for around 4-6 dollars which can be serviceable but not great.
Yes, it is possible.
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine Of course it is lol! I have tasted over 25,000 different wines and built over 200 different wine lists across the world so my point was that it's not the norm but yes it can be done. :) Keep up the great educational videos from your perspective as I love them
Man, the only $2 wine you're going to find in the US is the expired Welch's on the discount table at the grocery store.
$10 is the lowest and I always avoid Aldi wines. One time I got a 8 dollar red there that was 93 points, what a joke. William wright reserve lot Pinot noir 2016
MS, are very ego orientated, living in fear to be wrong, obsessed to be right! nice to see a cool MS I can understand ! Keep good job Sir!
Thanks. Am a MW though 😁
Rarely below 7€ (Denmark's a bit more expensive than Germany). Leaning more and more to the 10-15€ range for everyday wines and 15-30€ for the more special occasions (of course a bit more for champagne and bourgogne)
What is the cheapest bottle you can get in Denmark?
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine I actually don't know. I'll have to go to a supermarket starting with Al and ending in Di to check it out...
@@KonstantinBaumMasterofWine I think I may have found it at about 3.09€ - a lovely bottle of liebfraumilch that I have unfortunately not tasted nor have any intention of tasting
stereomix got enabled or something recording the audio on this one. lol
5,6 euros, Plan de Dieu qt Carrefour. the definition of cheap'n cheerful
I'm studying for my Level 3 Certificate now. I have personally tasted those wines and found them to be awful. It's mind-boggling why people would buy them to drink. I must confess that I buy them most of the time for cooking, incl. the Bordeaux Wine Château Cap something. The wine was a huge disappointment tbh. I think the better wine from Aldi I tried was the 2019 Riesling from Pfalz. It has this ripe stone fruit and tropical fruit flavours, e.g. peach, apricot, mango. Quite unusual considering Germany has cool continental climate. Maybe the vintage was so good that it produced ripe Riesling.
2019 was a warm vintage so this will have had an impact on the style.
Why would you ruin your food with a bad wine?
@@kosmozova I think buying good wine for cooking is not worth it. All the volatile aromas get lost anyway, really all I need in a wine for cooking is acidity and a bit of sweetness. Also ideally my cooking wines are unoaked, because I find that oak doesn't work that well as an ingredient.
@@kosmozova Well for the sake of cooking one just does not need a good wine as its only required for layers of flavour such as fruit and acidity which can be achieved both by poor and good wines alike.
I would drink them anyways 😂😂😂
I am thirsty!!!
Someone has to ;)
Our taxes cost more than those bottles…
Most not unter 10 € for Red ones. But that was a long way over years. Getting more expensive all the time :D
Good to hear this!
Collaboration with wine king! And Korean subtitles please
I would love to do something with them. Sure!
I am not devaluing his knowledge but you have to factor in the transport cost in that price range. So there was a high probability that the majority of the wines would come from Germany.
Maybe there was... Transport really does not play a big role when the quantities are high. Shipping a bottle from Rheinhessen or Puglia to Hamburg costs pretty much the same on a per bottle basis if you ship tens of thousands of bottles. You also have to factor in the cost of production which is much lower in Spain or Southern Italy compared to Germany.
That Wine number 3 looked like neon Pink at my Phone. It seems it came from a nuclear Power plant. Is it radioactive? 😂 I am glad never I drunk something like that.
(thanks to volunteer your body to be part of this experiment 😂 )
It tasted like it!
Around 7/8 euro
Isn't that rosé made with vitis rotundifolia (american vine) grapes? I've tasted rosé wines with 10% of american vine grapes and it was fine but 100% american smell and taste like cough syrup.