{"id":32723,"date":"2021-12-07T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/?p=32723"},"modified":"2021-12-07T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:54:16","slug":"party-wines-budget-bottles-that-youd-drink-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/party-wines-budget-bottles-that-youd-drink-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Party wines: budget bottles that you\u2019d drink yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s no need to take sub-standard wine to a party again with this selection of well-priced bottles<\/strong><\/p>\n

H<\/span><\/span>ow many of you have taken a dodgy bottle to a party, possibly even one that someone brought to yours? Let\u2019s face it, we\u2019ve all done it, though hopefully the desire to drink something decent may encourage you to up your game.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re hosting the party and providing the booze, your primary consideration, drinkability aside, is no doubt cost. I\u2019m guessing most of you want to keep that under \u00a310 a bottle, though that\u2019s a bit of a struggle with fizz these days. I really like Aldi\u2019s\u00a0Specially Selected Cap Classique<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(13%),<\/strong>\u00a0from South Africa, though \u00a312.99 is pushing it a bit if you\u2019re catering for larger numbers. The same store\u2019s\u00a0Specially Selected Pignoletto<\/strong>\u00a0(11.5%, see today\u2019s pick below) would be a more affordable choice, especially if you\u2019re a prosecco fan.<\/p>\n

For those with drier palates, cava is a better bet. Lidl\u2019s\u00a0Arestel Ros\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0(11.5%, also in today\u2019s pick) is an extraordinary \u00a35.29; I don\u2019t know how they do it \u2013 and it\u2019s better, to my mind, than the standard Arestel at the same price. If you want to serve champagne, Lidl\u2019s\u00a0Comte de Senneval Champagne Brut<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(\u00a313.99, 12.5%) is decent, too, even though it recently went up by a quid. Even so, it\u2019s better than the cheaper\u00a0Champagne Veuve Delattre Brut<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(12%) at \u00a311.99.<\/p>\n

The wine you choose also depends on the food you\u2019re serving, of course. Fizz is fine for party nibbles, but less so for buffet-style eating, and even that can vary in terms of its compatibility with wine. With cold food such as quiches and salads, you might want an easy-drinking white such as a sauvignon blanc or a ros\u00e9, while hot food such as lasagne or a casserole calls for a hearty red, and the 14.5%\u00a0Domaine Bousquet Gaia Malbec<\/strong>\u00a0in Waitrose\u2019s current \u201cFine Wines at \u00a310\u201d offer is a cracker. If you\u2019re up for spending as much as a tenner, I also like\u00a0Mirabeau Pure Ros\u00e9 2020<\/strong>\u00a0(12.5%) and\u00a0Broglia Gavi di Gavi 2020<\/strong>\u00a0(13.5%) from the same promotion, too. (If any of those take your fancy, however, it\u2019s probably worth visiting a branch in person, rather than ordering online, because they\u2019ll sell out fast.) Ros\u00e9 also has the virtue of generally being lower in alcohol, which is no bad thing at a party.<\/p>\n

I wish I could report that I\u2019ve found a good alcohol-free option, too, but I struggle. If you\u2019ve a sweet tooth, Aldi\u2019s\u00a0Zerozecco<\/strong>, which is not dissimilar to a moscato, might work, and at only \u00a32.49, you can hardly complain about the price, but I wouldn\u2019t drink it myself, even at someone else\u2019s expense. Sorry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There\u2019s no need to take sub-standard wine to a party again with this selection of well-priced bottles How many of you have taken a dodgy bottle to a party, possibly even one that someone brought to yours? Let\u2019s face it, we\u2019ve all done it, though hopefully the desire to drink something decent may encourage you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}