Mercadona Cason Historico Tinto 1L for €1.05 How much should I bring home to UK?

[Autoroute]

Whilst I tend to favour the traditional French reds, as an experiment I happened to buy a 1L brick of tinto (red) from Mercadona and found it is surprisingly good.
It cost €1.05 which is about 88p a litre.

All the box says is that the wine is a product of Espagna.
I suspect there is some good wine and a hearty amount of EU subsidy going in here and I am very happy to benefit.

Anyone know anything about this wine?

How much should I bring back to rainy UK? PS - Van can carry 500 kg

 

[Emmit]

Does that 500lts. ( sorry kgs.) include using the fresh water tank?

 

[Gaston aires]

36 ltrs if there’s two of you and you want to stay legal. If not as much as you can hide.
Phil upmeglass

 

[nicholsong]

Does that 500lts. ( sorry kgs.) include using the fresh water tank?

....and the cassette?

 

[Abacist]

Yuk!

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[Gaston aires]

Yuk!

One man’s meat etc

 

[Abacist]

It was the thought of using the cassette to bring wine back not the wine which I’d no doubt happily glug.

 

[Barchetta47]

Whilst I tend to favour the traditional French reds, as an experiment I happened to buy a 1L brick of tinto (red) from Mercadona and found it is surprisingly good.
It cost €1.05 which is about 88p a litre.

All the box says is that the wine is a product of Espagna.
I suspect there is some good wine and a hearty amount of EU subsidy going in here and I am very happy to benefit.

Anyone know anything about this wine?

How much should I bring back to rainy UK? PS - Van can carry 500 kg

I think you have been away too long!! Some wine doesn’t travel…..

 

[Autoroute]

I think the fresh water holds 90L. Need to look at the manual. Consider that! Alternatively I could turn water into wine?

 

[Autoroute]

Just checked and EU subsidised Spanish wine by over 1bn euro last year. I'm having some of that.

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[nicholsong]

Yuk!

Our third cassette is virginal.

 

[L' Hobo]

I think the fresh water holds 90L. Need to look at the manual. Consider that! Alternatively I could turn water into wine?

I'm good at turning wine into something that looks like water, is that any help?

 

[Autoroute]

I'm good at turning wine into something that looks like water, is that any help?

You must be thinking of Greene King IPA

 

[L' Hobo]

You must be thinking of Greene King IPA

That too, I'm nothing if not versatile!

 

[Just smiffy]

50ltr won’t hurt at around £44 then when at home pour it into a carafe or an empty bottle of chateaupneuf du pape and it’ll taste much better…

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[suavecarve]

Anyone know anything about this wine?

Tinto wine is a mix of merlot and Shiraz and normally the grapes for the tinto are hand picked from the higher part of the vineyard and selected first and have the honor of being initially stamped on by virgin female pickers before being pressed and processed with bread yeast.
Tinto sold in shops has not gone through the full process and is sold whilst still fermenting and if stored at over 20 degrees should really be depressurized hourly in order to prevent explosions.
www.wikiwine.com


















(I couldn't be bothered to wait another hour to post that !)

 

[Jackdog]

Stop being a cheap skate & step up a notch. Wife swears by ‘Don Simon’ at (I think) €1.45 litre. I am a beer drinker not a wine drinker but at that price I endorse her opinion