Who stands in front of the wine shelf at the supermarket or discount stores, you’ll be spoilt for choice. There are countless wines from numerous wine-growing areas of the world and the different price levels. Expensive does not automatically mean good. For just a few euros, a solid wine you can enjoy in good conscience. But can taste a wine from South Africa, the costs only 2,49 Euro really?
We have tested two white wines and three red wines by Penny, Rewe, Edeka and Denn’s organic food store with Stephanie Döring, Weinsommelière and managing Director of the Hamburg-based “wine shop”, and you asked: What is the South African wines are good from the discounters and the supermarket?
series wine Knowledge for beginners to buy good wine – 10 tips for wine buying in the supermarket
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Ten tips for wine buying in discounters
1. A good wine need not be expensive, but also not too cheap. In less than four euros per bottle, you may be skeptical and ask themselves whether the price of decent wine is produced.
2. Awards on the bottle offer guidance. After all, the professionals have tasted these wines and found them to be good.
3. In the case of German wines, the Official approval number (AP-No, label) offers an orientation. It is found on every label of a quality wine, and a guarantee that the wine sensory properly.
4. Pay attention to how the wine is presented: he Piabet provides carelessly, he may be under a permanent, flash lighting? Are the dusty bottles? Then rather leave it.
5. You should let the wines from the lowest shelves, experts call this the “Bückzone”. Here are the cheapest wines, often of dubious origin, as well as dust collector and store Keeper.
6. Speaking of the guardians download: Basically, wines in the supermarket for instant enjoyment are thought of and not necessarily. Mainly White and rosé wines should be young and fresh, not older than two years (Reds four years). You should ensure that the young cohorts – the elderly are only in the high-quality wines useful. The last two digits of the AP-No (see point 3) indicate the year of bottling. Is there, for example “15” for a white wine, the wine is already three years old. Prefer to let it lie. For red wines in the supermarket, they should not be older than four years.
7. Sometimes the rest of the bottles are offered at reasonable prices – here, take care! Sometimes wines are old white underneath (see point 6) or red wines, put in a Mature phase, in which they are untrinkbar.
8. A well-designed label says nothing about the quality of the wine. You can’t hide.
9. There are special wine guides, which have specialized to test wines from super markets, even Newspapers offer this Service once in a while and provide appropriate information to the network. Be careful of when such concrete Tests and reviews are outdated recommendations will not help you.
10. Even if a special offer or bargain appears so tempting: Before you buy a whole box of a certain wine, you should take a bottle home with you and the wine alone try.
