[wine] Four Pound Toro

For your amusement, from the UK. Aldi's Four Pound Toro - no mention of Two Buck Chuck! C, J It’s a corker! Red wine costing £3.59 and sold at Aldi scoops international award http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149036/It-s-corker-Red-wine-costin… By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 18:40 EST, 23 May 2012 | Updated: 18:41 EST, 23 May 2012 Stonking plonk: Aldi's Spanish Toro Loco Tempranillo 2011 (above) has won an international award despite costing just £3.59p Stonking plonk: Aldi's Spanish Toro Loco Tempranillo 2011 (above) has won an international award despite costing just £3.59p Some dinner party hosts might feel insulted if a guest turned up with a cheap bottle of plonk from Aldi. But a panel of experts has named a wine sold by the budget supermarket for just £3.59 as one of the world’s best. Its own-brand Spanish Toro Loco Tempranillo from 2011 excelled in blind taste tests alongside reds costing nearly ten times as much. Judges at the International Wine and Spirit Competition awarded it a silver medal, describing it as ‘fruity, rounded and appealing’ with hints of ‘nice bright cherry’. Tony Baines, from Aldi, said: ‘We work closely with some of the world’s leading wineries so we can deliver high-quality own-label wines to our customers. ‘It is fantastic that our commitment to quality has been recognised by as prestigious a group as the International Wine and Spirit Competition tasting panel.’ He added: ‘We’ve always known our wine range has got a lot of bottle and now it looks like the experts agree.’ The supermarket’s red wine was compared with several older, more expensive ones, including a £31.15 bottle of Costa di Bussia Barolo Riserva DOCG from 2005. The Toro Loco Tempranillo 2011 hails from the Utiel-Requena region in the province of Valencia, Spain. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149036/It-s-corker-Red-wine-costin… Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook -- James Ellingson cell 651 645 0753 Great Lakes Brewing News, 5219 Elliot Ave, Mpls, MN 55417 James(a)BrewingNews.com BeerGovernor(a)gmail.com