CHEAP BOTTLE OF SUPERMARKET WINE WINS TASTING

A $13 bottle of wine sold at Aldi’s Australian discount supermarkets has won the top prize at Australia’s Royal Adelaide Wine Show this year, beating out some bottles that were five times more expensive. Aldi’s Blackstone Paddock Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, produced in Margaret River, West Adelaide, took the title of Most Outstanding Red Wine at the wine show, which featured more than 2,500 wines from more than 300 wineries across Australia. The top title has been previously awarded to wines with price tags over $50. The red wine is described on Aldi’s website as “a complex and intriguing mix of blackcurrant, anise and lifted violet aromas.” The suggested food pairing is a rack of lamb.
* … or also those mini-sausages from that lady with the free samples.
* Yeah, people who shop at Aldi’s are gonna go right home and cook up a rack of lamb.
* And now that the word’s out, you can kiss that $13 price goodbye.
* Did we mention that the wine show suddenly has lots of openings for wine tasters?
* This proves what I’ve always said: Nobody knows anything.