Wine Tasting in Penang

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Hi papaya
you asked about Australian wine prices. There is one very strong discounter in Australia that is essentially a price maker. We also have a strong tradition of "clean skins" where all you are told is the region and the grape type on the label. In very rough terms a clean skin will be half the price of the branded bottle. Clean skins can be very good wines. It is the winery wanting to get a quick cash input or volume reduction without canibalising its pricing point for that wine in the market.
So what does one pay for a good bottle of wine. It is of course subjective but A$17 to A$ 25 will buy you something that is very pleasant. You can drop down to say A$12 but it will lack that elusive little something that we all love. For cleanskins halve those prices.
There is a grape glut both here and in New Zealand so the wineries are doing it tough. I have been seeing quality NZ sauvignon blancs going for just over A$10.
The MYR is presently at 2.8 to the A$.
Today I catch the Air Asia express (byo water bottle) to Malaysia for a little R&R. I will watch out for you all.
Cheers
Donohue 

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The best wine I have ever tasted was a clean skin. My brother-in-law was growing grapes commercially in Redcliffs for Southcorp. They had a contract for 500 tonnes but produced about 530. The turned it into a home brew and it was simply the best. It was the last time they did it unfortunately and the last of the bottles have now all gone.

I bought half a dozen bottles of Aus red yesterday at Cold Storage for around 35RM a bottle. The first one opened last night was mighty fine. 

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16RM Papaya... what are you drinking? It sounds like paint stripper.

Oy, just watch it mate.  But you mis-read my postings anyway.  I was referring to a bottle advertised at RM 16 on that Fine Wines link which, as Mr Stuurman correctly pointed out, was actually a very small bottle.  As I mentioned in posting #5 on this thread, my benchmark is around the RM34 mark, which I think is similar to your preferred supermarket price range    Thinking back, I'm pretty sure I saw a bottle of fairly decent Aussie glugging wine at RM 30 in Cold Storage on one of our previous trips - can't remember the name of it, something like Long Neck(?)  We used to get it in Singapore too when we lived there.