tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3043611996908157947.post6899665100854505838..comments2023-03-04T08:25:57.282+00:00Comments on Food is good: This is insane. Or just plain dishonest.Sebastian Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754276390522708428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3043611996908157947.post-56104124007569215012012-03-24T19:23:26.030+00:002012-03-24T19:23:26.030+00:00Just drinking one now - £6 'half price' at...Just drinking one now - £6 'half price' at Dalston Sainsbury's. I've been to the region and have fond memories of Cahors, and this is a fairly good example, and well worth £6. I'd say I wouldn't feel robbed at £7.50 but would at £12...<br /><br />It was the only bottle left and one of the better half price deals. There are some real shockers, particularly at Tesco.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08138002152899818484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3043611996908157947.post-48304082627622960892012-01-03T12:50:00.612+00:002012-01-03T12:50:00.612+00:00I was in Sainsburys again yesterday and I see that...I was in Sainsburys again yesterday and I see that the offer on La Patrie has now changed from 2 for £10, to a single bottle "half price" deal - reduced from £11.99 to £5.99. Which, as I said in my earlier comment, would be a fair, and good value, price for it - if they weren't still pretending that it's "real" value was twice that. <br /><br />Incidentally, if this article - or the offer itself - has piqued an interest supermarkets and their pricing policies (as it has, for instance for the good people on the Canal World chat forum, of all places: <br />http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=43304&pid=796215&st=0&) <br />then here's an interesting piece from the LRB by the thoroughly estimable John Lanchester. <br />http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n12/john-lanchester/the-price-of-pickles<br />Not that I'm suggesting that a single questionable wine deal puts Sainsburys quite in the Walmart league...Sebastian Roachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16754276390522708428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3043611996908157947.post-52910722091969816352011-12-13T11:12:14.603+00:002011-12-13T11:12:14.603+00:00I have now, purely in the interests of research, o...I have now, purely in the interests of research, of course, tried the wine in question. It's called "La Patrie" Cahors, 2009, and it is, without in any way trying to sound smug or told you so, exactly as I predicted. <br /><br />It's a perfectly good, basic country wine from SW France, reasonably full bodied and full flavoured, but unremarkable. At two for a tenner it represents good value, but nothing like the bargain the claimed "full" price would suggest. If it's full price were £6, I'd think it pretty good and it might get on to my regular shopping list, although not very close to the top of that list. If it were £7 I'd think it was OK, and not feel in any way ripped off, but probably not bother buying it again, at least not until next time it was on special offer. If I'd paid £11.99, I'd be feeling distinctly ripped off, it simply doesn't have the complexity, richness or depth to justify anything remotely like that price. <br /><br />It's OK, it just ain't that interesting. Perfectly good cooking wine* at a fiver a bottle.<br /><br />*Bearing in mind that for me the term "cooking wine" is not as dismissive or derisive as it may be for some. You add wine to food to enhance the flavour, so obviously you wouldn't want to cook with wine that didn't taste good enough to drink. A good cooking wine is simply something cheap enough to not worry about how much you need to pour into the cooking pot, but good enough for you to be quite happy to drink while you're doing it.Sebastian Roachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16754276390522708428noreply@blogger.com