It’s worth exploring what your local independent bottle shop can do at this price point too. Its acidity is high, but there’s enough fruit here for balance. Aldi’s new bottle provides those classic clean sheet aromas on the nose and then textbook steely wet-stone minerality and lemon on the palate.

Sancerre has crept up in price over the years, and so finding a decent supermarket example at this level has become harder and harder. Yet there were three examples from the new range that really jumped out at me and which are well worth a look: Which are the best wines in Aldi’s new ‘Winemaster’s Lot’ range? While bottles in the £5 to £10 range continue to be both Aldi and Lidl’s core focus, there’s another trend that’s caught my eye in recent years – “premiumisation”.īoth chains have continued to add bottles above the £10 mark, with Lidl mostly focussing on its “Wine Tour” special offers, while Aldi has beefed up its core range.Īldi’s latest additions were unveiled today, with nine wines under its new “Winemaster’s Lot” range, sitting above its existing “Specially Selected” bottles.Ī recurring theme was that these were young wines that needed more time to age to show at their best. It shouldn’t really be a surprise – back in my days as a business reporter, it was very noticeable how the two grocers’ car parks suddenly began filling up with Audis, BMWs, and Volvos following the global banking crisis. I’ve learned over the past seven years that Scottish Field readers love a bargain, and they appear to be interested especially in the bottles being stocked by the two German discount supermarket chains. WHENVER I mention the names “Aldi” and “Lidl”, readers’ ears immediately begin to twitch.

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