The challenge of finding cost-effective wines (Old World)

Having tasted a few Spanish wines which are competitively priced, yet garnering RP90 or over has led me to set the theme of this year's Doctors' Association wine dinner as cost-effective imbibing.I thought it would be fun to set the price at below $300 a bottle (or $400 of the special offer price at which the bottle is bought was <$300).

One would quite automatically think of a number of New World countries where such value can be obtained, but I wondered if we can find the same in established Old World countries. It turned out to be possible, and one can even find a claret or maybe two! Sweet wines are a challenge from the Old World, but then we tend to open half bottles rather than full 750ml bottles. So the price restriction the applies to the smaller bottles (375 or 500 ml bottles) which are normally opened at the end of the meal, even when full bottles are drunk in the main meal. Watch this space for further updates.