Lidl did an Amarone and might still do it - for £16. MrsW had a bottle bought for her 65th and it was surprisingly good.
We don't usually go below £20 for reds. Wine is a family indulgence.
Indulgence or essential? We veer towards the latter.
Food without wine? Just wrong!!
Anyway..Lidl Tenuta Pule Amarone della Valpolicella £16.99 and still available.
We have been going to wine-tasting dinners locally for some time organised initially by a Master of Wine, but now organised by one of the Group The MW is now responsible for choosing the wines that Lidl buy and no doubt some of them are really excellent quality and very good value for money. Due to his new responsibility he now just chooses the wine for the dinner and introduces them over the evening.
At a recent dinner he presented the Lidl Amarone and went round the tables as we were drinking the wines and asked for opinions. I was quite frankly disappointed in the Amarone and said that whilst an acceptable wine, though nothing special, I did not think that it was very typical of the Amarone style. His retort was along the lines of what do expect for £16.00+.
You pays your money and ...
