GREAT WINES at LIDL? Master of Wine blind tastes 8 wines from LIDL.
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I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: Gabriel StandArt
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
2022 Deluxe Fairtrade Sauvignon Blanc Western Cape South Africa
2021 Deluxe Chardonnay Limestone Coast Australia
Crémant de Loire AOP Brut France
Arestel Cava Rosado brut Spain
2022 Torre de Ferro DĂŁo Portugal
2018 Kaiken Terroir Series Cabernet Sauvignon Mendoza Argentina
2020 Agramont Garnacha Navarra Old Vine Spain
2019 Corte alle Mura Chianti Riserva Italy
The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
I know that most people don’t care about wine as much as I do – and that’s probably a good thing. When I drink wine I want to experience something special and I don’t buy wine at Lidl but many people do. Lidl operates over 11,550 stores in more than 30 countries and employs more than 376,000 people. The “secret” to their success is that they sell decent products at very low prices which is great for consumers, that aren’t too picky and or have a limited shopping budget.
Wine suppliers however that sell to the discounters are generally under a lot of pressure, having to fulfill very high requirements to be listed in the chains. They still do it as once you are listed at Lidl you get immediate access to a very wide distribution network and you start selling tens of thousands of bottles very quickly. The amount of wine that is needed to stock all shops in one market also means that Lidl cannot work with small to medium-sized wineries and instead mainly works with huge bottlers and wineries that can supply at least a hundred thousand bottles of the same wine.
The quality at Lidl has been improving over the decades but I haven’t had wines from Lidl that I wanted to drink over dinner… But maybe that changes today. My team has bought 8 wines and spent 50 € on those wines.