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What's in this fucking wild? Easter egg isn't shut enough to push enough. By putting the shack in shatter enough to shatter enough to panthers . Hello and welcome to Bottoms Up with Alan Carr and Leigh Pitt. This is our Weekly Drinks podcast where we tackle your wine questions and do our best to sound like we know our Malbex from our Merlows , our chardonnays from our Chablis , our Chatenov DePaps from our other wines . Moving on . What's our wine kid? Well, it is our welcome drink. Last week you brought a bit of shampoos. As always, we bring a welcome drink. It's my turn to choose. Now I have chewed chosen you've chewed, I've chewed, I've chewed through this bottle and I am slightly nervous . I don't want to say this bad, but it's an chider. A cheider. It is wonderful. It is Welsh, okay? An achieider. We love Wales. We do. Now let me tell you the story about this, okay? I was invited a wine event in London. A wine event, was it a party? A wine event it was an orgy. It was my own appraisal . You went to your wheelie bin . You're recycling. It's a wine event . Just how I turned up . No, I got invited to this event. And now I will say I didn't really know what it was. I didn't bother inviting you because I knew you probably was busy. So I took lovely Harry, Harry came along. Blessed, I felt bad because I said, Why do I feel jealous?? What What that I've been hanging out with other people? Yeah . Yeah. Dirty Harry. Why? Join us next week where Harry will be co hosting bottoms up . I'll be directing it . No, so don't normally associate Wales with I know. So it was a celebration of Welsh Vineyard. So this one is from the Dell Vineyard. I want to give a shout out to the Dell Vineyard in Monmouthshire . They gifted a bottle. They had a few and this is their roseage, do you like? Yeah, I really like it. They gifted this bottle of Claider and there's a story behind it. This is why I bought it. So back in twenty twenty one, it was their first harvest , alright? And they went away for a couple of days and guess what ? They came back , all the grapes gone . The blackbirds and the badgers stole the grapes . Is this a genuine story? Well, I don't think they've made it up . So basically, so basically it was stolen by them and that they have then as an homage to them they've called it so Aklida is Welsh for the thief. You can see there 's a blackbird on there who stole all the grapes. This is so on their so they instead of having because they scaled up. They got like twelve thousand bottles the lady was saying , they only had one hundred and fifty bottles after all the grapes were stolen. Why did she keep bad jobs? I know, I know , full upon grapes. It's so lovely though. I think this was the one if I remember rightly . Oh yeah, it's very drinkable. It's got a sweetness to it, hasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think it was the one that's won an award, but I went to this event. Oh my god , I was expecting to walk in. I thought everyone's watching the Bottoms up Wine Podcast. Yeah, we've been invited. But honorary guests . Eonevery's there with their tasting notes. They were writing things down. I had nothing. I was like, Ugh , and then they had something like we've never seen before. A spatoon. They were spitting spatoons. They spit the wine into it . I've heard of this myth, but I never saw it in person until that day. Well, you know why? My no eyes turned to you . You went with Harry instead of a TV's Allen Carr . I would have worn the cloak at the lantern. Anyone seen traitors ? They are like traitors . So yes, I thought I'd bring that, the Del Vineyard, it's a Welsh and it's a wine of Wales. I think we should be supporting them. And yeah, it's yeah, I never I never ever go for Welsh wine, but I would definitely with this. Was it Ech lider , uh hyda stolen by the birds and the badgers . Have you ever gigged in Wales? Have I giggled in Cardiff? Harly Biggley. I'm glad I love it. Mermaid key, that's nice. Have you been to Chip Alley? No, what's that? It's an alley they serve Chips. Oh , right. Yeah, so it is literally Chip Alley. Yeah, Chip Alley. I went on to go there in Cardiff after you had a night out, free AM , you know, VIP section. Are you a cheer are you a cheer ? What a flex. I come with me. I've got a place to take you. I VIP down in Chip Alley. Do you are you a gravy on your chips? Because I'm not. What? Nova. Yeah. Some people like chips and gravy. Curry sauce. Oh cheese. Cheesy chips. Oh I wonder if we could do a cheesy chip special, what do we bother with? We're cheesy chips. I have a bit of mayo on the side . No . Why? Mayonnaise. Well, what do you like? I like curry sauce, just with the chips. Yeah . Well, I went to Wales for a city break, okay? And city it wasn't a city break actually. It was like a weekend stay sorry. It was in the middle. It was rural Wales. I can't remember fully where we were, but we were in like the middle of nowhere. Went to this pub, I ordered a gin and tonic. I said, Oh, can I have a gin . He serves me this gin and tonic. I said, Oh , he said, Do you want a lemon with that? I said, Oh, do you have a slice of orange? I said like as a garnish. You you're trying to get gay as, you know what you said to me? Orange , you're not in London anymore, mate . I'm sorry, I didn't realize you didn't have orange orange is a bit much. You would try, you would come on. A slice of orange . It's gone in there . The darts have stopped midair. The dog has gone like this You'd minced in there. I didn't I wasn't active . I wanted pink grapefruit, so I stopped myself from saying it. Have a day off pink grape . That's the perfect gin garnish. That was a hill I will die on . And I nearly did on that Welsh trip. Yeah, I'm sorry, orange . That's not a bad thing to ask. That's a lot to ask if I had him anyway. Listen, you've had a mare of it recently, haven't you? No, I lost my off phone. Well, you didn't lose it. You left it in a dressing room. So you did you went back on stage, didn't you? I know, went back on stage. How was it? It was wonderful. It's so nice to be on stage. Nervous all day. All week, then you go back. Do people go to you you, do get nervous? You always get nervous all the time. Yeah, of course . And then I was buzz ing with the reception and then of course La la la la la la minced out the door woo left my phone in the theater and then the theater was shut all over so I didn't have my phone with me and then I finally got it back on Monday. So I had a sort of digital detox. Yeah, it was so funny because I'd gone on WhatsApp and said How was the show? And it said last scene yesterday at half eight. I thought I'm like, I'm always on my phone. Yeah, I thought he's lost his phone. So I got a call an hour later from your brother. I just answered it. He's lost his phone, hasn't he? And he went, yeah, no, he's lost 'cause you have to go to a payphone. Payphone, which stank a piss. When is that? They matter. They always stank a piss, I know, but like, who stuff ed their thing? But who's like old people, they still piss . Cow ? Who is still pissing in phone boxes? It was next to a toilet. Piss in the toilet. Oh no . So I go in there and I think you know You know now . Anyone here fifty ? No, okay . Yes and to rest ore it. Gather around. Gather around. When you used to use a payphone before mobiles, you used to put your phone thing in the slot. You gotta press the button out . Oh to go in the slot. What do you mean? Well, you don't use to put it in. So put it in there, just hang in there , press the button . I just shove it, give it in an extra shove. Stank a piss . And then one of them had emergency phone calls only. I said I've lost my phone. It is an emergency . And then when I finally got my phone, I went, Oh , release . Yeah. Five calls. Four them from you . No one gives a shit. Did no one care? No one cared. I could be dead. And you couldn't get into your Mac, did you? You had a mare with your keyboard. Yeah, because I tried to put in my passcode for the WiFi and it sent me two dogs names and one of them's called Joyce and the J didn't work so you couldn't get in. And I hate that when they go. You've used that password before. Yeah . Yeah, who has thirty different accounts I've got shopping to do. I can't come up with new , I'm not I'm not a machine. Okay , don't stress. Calm down again. They pull you on priision and they go, Oh, there's no symbol in this. And then you just end up putting exclam ation, Mal . But listen, you like a wine as well. Have you ever had the facial recognition and you're so bloated from drinking wine that your phone doesn't recognize yeah, or you can't open your eyes the next day and you're just like you have to put your pin in. I'm with that piss what like a bird box and you're doing it to yourself . Isn't that? What's that the one with bullet? We're Sandra Bullet very force is the eyes open . All I want to know is my balance . I do not want to know my balance after a night . Oh my God, yeah. Why are you opening your eyes? No, yeah, yeah, just click Yeah, just don't like that and then they say, Oh, you know, your password's used on other accounts. I stopped being fucking nosy. I'm sick of while we're getting this off our chest, data leak, it's been shown up in a data . Who cares? Who cares? Fet them into my Pinterest account. Still those bloody colours of me paints. They're not pressed . They don't care . I'm just like, yeah, oh, it's too much . But I can't come up with new passwords every time. Yeah, and now it's like you need a special number. You need a this, you need a character in , you know, similar to old ones. It's before him . Anyway, should you know what my original Yahoo account is? And don't try and hack it now because I've changed it. Oh your email address yeah, what was your first email? Camp . Camp. It was four letters camp at yahoo dot co dot UK dot No, it was my thing. And then password was camped. Oh, your password was camped. Because it went back in nineteen ninety nine, it said for your password, describe you. And I went camp . Four letters, camp. They wouldn't accept that now, would they? No, they wouldn't. Don't try and check it out 'cause he's changed is camp exclamation Who's the idiot now ? So Easter's coming up. I prefer Easter to Christmas there, I've said it. It's interesting because I don't care about Easter at all. Oh, wonderful. It's wonderful everyone's celebrating Easter . We couldn't care less . Why try to Christmas Easter? It's got more of a drama. I don't want to piss off like religious people . Jesus died. Jesus came back to life. I know. It's quite like a rock . Look who's back. Thought you could get it. I thought you seen the last of me. Yeah . Yeah. I never rock went back, boom. So you like Easter, is it because of the eggs or is it because of the religious message? Or is it? I like both. I like the religious message you know, crucifix. Oh yeah, that message . No, got crucified. Then he came back, which I love that rebirth, which of course is why we have eggs . Is it? Yes, Earth. No, eggs . What's in this fucking wild? Oh, this is the most brilliant religious education lesson I 've got act from songs of praise . No, he comes back. No, no, what? Tell me again, crucify or that sad on the Good Friday No, no. And then he comes back and I think that is because it's spring, isn't it? It's Spring, rebirth, yes, rejoice . A new, you feel like a new person. Yeah. And it is the Yeah, it's when things start bubbling up. Because it changes every year, doesn't it? Because I used to be like, Why does it change every year? But it's something to do with the equinox or something, isn't it? You've lost me there now. Well, listen, Easter eggs , I'm going to be controversial now. Okay . I think they aren't as chocolate as they used to be . In what sense ? As in as chocolatey as they No as in isn't as nice No, as in there's less of them like they're smaller or you mean like less sugar. They're using less it's not like it used to . Eas etergg chocolate is different from your twelve and your kitcat. It is like proper chocolate. I just think unless you're a child, why are you getting an easter egg? I just don't think it's a thing . You've never had a kind of surprise. Whereas it's a surprise I have when I was seven. It's a surprise. It's a toy. Something to play with and it's chocolate. Something to play with. Right. So what list your toys from your kinder surprise . Well, I don't have a travel chess set . Oh, here we go. I've got to. Yeah. Okay, no, no, carry on. If I've got a long journey, I've got long journey, I get a kind of surprise 'cause I know I get a meal, something to play with, a meal , a meal right ? A little easter egg is a drug. And inside, sometimes you get like smart as that's dessert . After meals, after meal. I'm like, Oh my God. Well, Jesus. You've never had an easter egg. No, I have had an easter egg, but I just I don't know, who's buying you Easter eggs? I found them myself . You don't buy yourself an easter egg . Is it now? Anything else left to say? No, it's fine. Do you know what? I'm going to buy you an easter egg. This suck off . I don't want your Easter eggs. Why choke on it ? I'm going to give you a kind of surprise how 're the toy toy . Can't know, yeah, you can't. He says there's a sign on it says do not give to child . I'm not a child . Jesus would have been the perfect guest on bottoms up. Why? Well, he would have brought his own water . If you know what I mean? Turn it into wine. Very good, very good. Happy birthday, Jesus. Happy No, he died . I know he came back . It's Christmas isn't me, right? So to all celebrating whether you've got an Easter egg or not, happy Easter. Yes, happy Easter everyone. Bottoms up, bums up . We gather here tonight to bring women back to their rightful place The Testament's a new Hulu original series from the executive producers of the Handmaid's Tale. It's easier to accept a story than believe that the people around you are monsters, the battle isn't over. There come a time when you have to take action, when you have to choose your own destiny . Watch the new Hulu Original series The Testaments, streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney plus for Bundle Subscribers, Terms Apply . We've all been there sitting in a lovely restaurant staring at the menu, going, Oh , what goes with this ? I need a wine, help. Well, stress no more because we're here to help, aren't we? We are indeed. And in this brand new segment, we are choosing some of your favorite dishes and finding out which wine pairs perfectly with it. And we're being spoiled today by the lovely people here at the Broadcaster who are bringing in some disco sculls. I don't know why their disco are about to find out a disco biscuit . What a night that was They're not like digestives . Well we're about to find out Disco 's scullop. It may be a very different ending and a surprise wine that goes with it. So this segment is called The Perfect Pairing. Well welcome. I'm Rich. How you doing? Chef at the broadcaster. Thank you so much. I'm very well here. It's delicious. How much have you had? Hello stopping now scallops. Now what are scallops again? Because someone told me they're a mermaid's clit . It's a good way when they're fresh . When they're fresh so look, they're shellfish . We pan fry them. Jerusalem artichoke puree, they're pan seared with brown butcher, apple, gel, a little bit of apple and pan chetta and sage . Oh delicious . And they're perfectly paired . What this? Oh, I've had that before . That's so lovely. So this is the open house house wine, which we launched this year. This one's called ola , and it's nice and dry and crisp. Perfect with this. Now before we carry on, I do want to know, why is it disco scalloped? Okay , so there's a guy called Pete Down in Cornwall . He has started to fish with the cages and they have flashing lights on them . And what it does is it attracts the scallops to swim directly in so they come in. It's like that with the gaze. We're walking down the street. We see something flashing, we go in. Yeah, we do That makes me feel, I don't know whether it makes me feel like some of this scallops are being like, woo party. Yeah, and yeah , but it's better than the old method or one of the other methods where they just chuck the nets in, pull it across all the bottom of the ocean. Yeah, having a dance before they dance. Exactly . Yeah, I don't know if you know Rich, but we started this podcast. The inspiration was we did wine tasting in Cape Town, people who have listened will know this. And so I think we need to have a taste of the wine first just to see what it tastes like and then we'll try the food and hopefully the pairing will be perfect. And the thing is, if that's the house wine , house wine back in the day meant the best. It sort of showed off the pub, didn't it? It was a lot of house wine, but it should if it's right. And I've had that before, and it's delicious. Okay, let's have a test. It smells amazing. Nice, fresh, it smells light. Oh, that's delicious. Okay, gents, I'm going to leave you to it. Enjoy. Thank you so much. Bye bye. . So I like this. So this is if we were going to order scallops, you would get the perfect pairing with a Sauvignon Blanc. So lovely , nice and fresh that wine . Should we tuck in? Yeah. It's nice just drinking here, isn't it? Like even having any food? It is but which you can do, but you know, we can also pair it with scarlet. Oh yeah, a bit nuts. I'm going to use my napkin because I've got beige trousers on. Okay , so this is wow . Okay . Apparently the crisp acidity cuts through the butter y scallops beautifully. So let's have a taste of these. Let's pick up the ption on it, having a I might have a shell as a plate every time. No washing up . Well , no washing up, but you'd have to go out and get the shells each time . Yeah, as both swings around . Where's Allan? He's out looking for shells. Wash it out though . His water bills have gone right down . Got hyper mia Oh , the bus hair . Mm , oh my god. Mm that's delicious. There's also a bit of pancetta in there so you got the saltiness . You've got the butter there. Let's have a bit of this pancetta. And you've also got some apple puree . Oh my god, that's amazing. So many different tastes . And apparently you pair that with this Sauvignon Blanc Sauvi.be I know you hate it when I do a cabamps but sovibe, that's what I call it . And like I said, the crisp acidity cuts through the buttery taste. It does affect the way you drink it because often sometimes when I'm out, I'm like, you just get the wine you want. But actually, if you compare that perfectly, it's delicious, isn't it? So delicious. And you want basically apparently the citrus and peach notes echo the freshness of the apple puree, so it complements that perfectly. And also I think even if you're not having scallops, if you're having a fish dish , something like that, 'cause it just goes together. You can't go wrong, can you really? No . And again, you're not a massive white fan, are you? But this is so loud. Hear that perfectly especially with summer coming up. Just sit imagine like being at the broadcaster, they've got a gorgeous roof terrace on top with a nice glass of ol scallop. And with the TV centre over there, you could see a celebration. You could indeed. David Dickinson . Well , we've all got dreams . You could . So to round up, if you're having scallops, what kind of wine is that? What would you get with it? So you want a French, you want like a Sauvignon Blanc, like French, you want it to be crisp . You want acidic, so it cuts through you want the citrusy taste of it, which the Saubign Blanc generally is. That was absolutely delicious. Thank you broadcast, I'm glad you fish this as well. Thank you, Richard, love. I want more scallops. I want disco biscuits . Scallops . Now our guest really knows his way around a wine aisle, especially if the wine bowls have got a yellow sticker on. He's here to save us money. It's a brilliant Andy, the affordable wine hunter. Hello Hello . Thank you for having me on it. Andy, welcome. First time on the pod. It is. It is, you do watch it. You mentioned earlier, how are we getting on? You're getting on very well. You've had lots of great people on it. And I think you've learned a lot of the basics now. Oh, thanks, love. Have we missed a trick? I mean, how can we get Easter coming up? How can we get those bargains, those wine bargains? What do I do? It's the perfect time of year . Most of the supermarkets, the sort of Saintsburst Tesco, Azda, those kind of places, often have in the run up to any bank holiday weekend, twenty five percent off, mix six. So if you can afford to just get six rather than one, you can get some great bargains in at this time of year. Because isn't that how you got into it? You bulk did you just go to France or something? Bulgari? I used to get we live about half an hour an hour away from the channel tunnel and for ten years to go away twice a year to France with a few friends stock up with wine from these stores. Hundred and twenty each time. Wow. Yeah. On hyper machete. Hyper Mache. Calais wine and there used to be a majestic over there as well. And Calaisine would pay for your crossing as well if you committed to buying wine. So you get a free day out too. Oh my god, that's a that's the kind of day out I would go on. Me too. But Brexit and COVID put a stop to that . So I find myself back in the UK going, oh, all the wines a are lot more expensive than I used to pay. So then you see One Supermark has got an offer on one week, the next week someone's got enough run. The week after that someone else has got an off run. So I just started to talk about that on Instagram, did a little wine exam which was like a light bulb going off my head to sort of say oh I now understand this world a lot more than it used to and just found that people were really interested to know what's on offer this week what's on offer next week? Because I love you you're like Martin Lewis Martin Lewis of Wine Martin Lewis for people that may alk is yeah. A drunk Martin Lee. Yes. Yes. But drink responsibly drink responsibly . We got Easter Easter bolankid hay coming up, what should people be putting in their Tesco trolley or Sainsbury's trolley? Well dittle trolley or Asta or farm food anyway, I've got time for this. There is something about the bank holiday where all the supermarkets think that the great British public is just gonna go out there and get loads more wine. And that's a good thing for us. Yeah , yeah. But it doesn't what you put in your trolley. I mean, anything that's on offer, anything that's got a bargain on it, particularly those anything that's got a bargain on it, come on if it's what you like. It's, you know, the wine game is about buying what you like at the end of the day. If you like something and if you want to drink blue none, I don't want to drink blue blue none, but if someone does, and they buy the bad you judge someone if you saw someone with blue nun in the basket and a black tower and what is it Lembrini a little bit a little a little bit. Only because there's so much better out there. There's so many other wines to enjoy. There's so many great flavors and so it's just I would like people to just experiment a bit more than that if you think really anyone who just buys the same wine day in, day out, week in week, out is just missing out on so much that's out there. Because also, I guess with wines, you don't have really ever have individual bottles reduced down do you, but you have like multi buy offers. That's the main thing . It's almost getting a mix of six, so you can get any six bottles and then you get the discount off all that. But the real trick is if you get the double discount. So my favorite people say they thought of wine hunter, you do six pounds wines, but sometimes, but what I'd rather say is look at a bowl of that's normally ten or eleven pounds, if felt like this one , it's then on offer down till that eight hundred twenty five. Right. They then do mix six on top of that. And suddenly you're getting this eleven pound bottle of wine for just over six quid. That's how to buy six pound bowl of wine not to go start from the bottom up and go I'm gonna get this one at six pounds. Because what I like to do is pretend to have a baby in a pram, little five finger discount. Push the pram out . Get it all free. Yeah, that's great advice . Martin Lewis would condone that. Even Martin Lewis is going wow, what a saving s. The Martin Lewis is one hundred percent saving . That's a different Martin Louis . No, no. Oh, that's that's really good. That's really good. What is your , what's your go to? What's your favorite wine? Well, I also want to know what's your favorite supermarket or is it like Sophia's choice for you, you can't choose? It is a bit like Sophia's Choice. I think that they've all got some great wines in them. Some of them are better than the other ones, but they've all got some good ones. I guess do the savings push you into different stores so whichever store has the best savings. But how do you find them out? Are you just always going around supermarkets nebbing at the savings? Quite often I mean certainly to start with, but now I'm Nebbing around Nebbing Like Nebbing around what is a grimsby phrase? Probably Nebbing. You've heard Nebbing? I haven't always known. I haven't Nebbing. Nebbing me like nabbing. Yeah, nabbing's like what you nabbing at you nubbing. You're nosying, nosying at the savings. You nabbed. So I do a lot of that, do a lot of nosing about, but I get to go to a lot of the supermarket press tasting. So I get to taste them all in advance and go whether I like them or don't like them. Then I kind of wait until they're on offer and that's when I start promoting people. Because what we forget is when we go old supermarket wine and all that, but they have a dedicated team. They have probably the best Sameliers they know . So in a way it's a bit of snobby. Oh supermarket wine. I know I don't want to put you on the spot, but who's got it right? Just name a supermarket that they've always they always sink ahead, they, you know, is there anyone like, can you at least give us one that you like? I think it depends on price point. Okay, I've been it that way. If you're comfortable spending over ten pounds a bottle, then you 're waiting. You're probably more dimensions are going to spend a little bit more in a day. Maybe your Saintsburg has tasted different and all that. And if you're in the lower end, then your Audies and your little's are your better bet to go. They have some good wines in there at quite low prices. Audi, Aldi Win's best wine and we did we did with Alex James from Leur, we did a whispering angel duke taste test and it was actually the screaming devil from Azeroth as it was that came out on top. Can I just get this off my chest with Tesco? Ain't gonna slag off Tesco and it's fine, but you go to Tesco , this is twenty pounds. If you've got a club card it's four p. Like they are forcing you to get a club card, which I do have, but those club card discounts are massive sometimes . But at least you don't have to pay for a club card. No, you don't. You know, we've invited him on to talk about supermarket winners, not gripes. That was a spillage, you know, in Liddle the other day. I was there for an hour. How can you tell me? How can you come on here ? He's here fully steam Mr Fucking Tesco . So what did you do because this is your full time job now, but what did you do before this? I did a very big corporate job. I did lots of Excel and PowerPoint and other things like that. Okay, so you've really changed. Rechanged this is just the last four or five years, just pursuing passion projects. Yeah. And wine is one of those life. That's it. We just love wine. We love wine. So listen, what's this and what are you gonna teach us? Well , watching the past shows, I think you've learned a lot along the way. You've done mouth. Thanks for saying that. Thanks for lying. You've done mouthfields, you've done lengths, you've learned lots of things. can't wait to that happen . At that moment otherwise that's coming up bring it on. It's time for me. You've covered one of the things I do is lesser known grapes and regions are your friends. And I know that you've learned about that because you've done some Roman ian wine, you've done some Lebanese wines. Another theme I've got is the neighbors of the famous So this is leveling up a little bit for some of the basics neighbors of the famous. So is this in terms of like regions? Because you know what? I'm the same with a rose. If I see Provence, I go, Oh yeah, and like Malbeck, if he's Argentina or Chile, I go, Oh that. So if you want to save a bit of money, sometimes maybe just look to the look to the left or the right of that place and you could still get the same thing. Well, you've teeded that up very nicely. Provence Rose, if you break it down, it comes from the south of France. We know where that is. Yeah. It's made from predominant ly three grapes, grenache, syrup, and sanso , and it comes from that area. So what's next door is Longux Rusion , which is the bit between Monpellier and Spain, basically. Still in the south of France, still same climate, and they make their roses out of the same three grapes a lot of the time. And that's exactly what we've got here. So you've got one just next door to Provence that's essentially the same kind of wine and is usually a few pounds cheaper. Isn't it? So it's a bit like, you know, if you're in Brighton Hove, you're paying for the postcode, you know? It isn't it? Postcode lottery. Yeah, yeah. You'll get a lot better bars and clubs there than you might have been worthy though I, don't know. Truly well, yes, exactly. But you're still getting the same experience. I got duped when I came down from Manchester. I lived in Manchester, Stretford. And then I moved to house when crouch end borders . And I felt like hier synth bouquet because I went to the bank , watch your postcode. I said end and crouch end borders Upper Holloway. I'm like, Excuse me . But I was told they sold it to me. Yeah, yeah, they yeah, but it's one minute walk down the road and you'd be in Crouch ed. If I did wind in up Hollywood, it'd be the same as Crouchen Borders. But slightly cheaper. Exactly. I don't know why I started this story . Well, I'm hoping that this slightly cheaper has got better results than some of the others. What you're saying, essentially, is you're going to get pretty much the same tasting wine for the same soil. Same soil, same climate, same way it's made. In many cases, like you said with this bageu, same grapes , but a different price point. So rather than being sat in a cafe or a restaurant or a bar, whatever, going Coats to Provence , they might say coat, what is it? Long early. No, I thought I'm on it here. My God, I'm gonna get How'd you say that? The long ago reissant. Now quite often you have to look on the back rather than look on the front. Okay, back to this will de Bazier. That's the cateu de Bezier is an area within the Longadot, but on the back it'll say Longadot on the back it'll start a bit of an accent. You can say all these things. You bilingual? He's been to France so I've been Cali although I do get pulled Cala Calay on a booze cruise It's not Michael Bailin, I'm sorry You're so right . Thank you Bonchaux . Ten bottles of red please . Silvu plate . No, I'm not no quote , you have a lovely accent. Go into a hyper arge. The wine snobs do sometimes come after me and say you haven't pronounced that correctly . It's not about that. It's about this is the bottle. This is what it's called. This is how much it costs. And I said, this one here, eleven pounds, you can pick it up for about probably about six pounds fifty if you get those boggins, right? Wow, which is very good. It's so delicious. It's so good. I mean, if you gave me that, I would just guess it really cooked the Ravens. It's got the color, the nice paleness that I love. No cl clackack, no . Hit the clack. Hints of strawberry. Let's have a go. Strawberry. Yeah, it does. You can't taste strawberry . You can just taste wine. Can't you wine? Getting wine in a glass. Before we move on to this red , what do you have like a secret hack where like do you need to know loads about wine or what should you kind of hack in terms of like because you might see a loads of discounts but not know what the best one is? Like I don't want to if something is a bit cheaper because I've got this thing now and it's probably in my head if it's cheap I, sometimes think hangover. Yep. And I'm like, God, this is going to make me feel a bit like bad tomorrow. So I would rather pay a little bit more , you know, avoiding that. What's the hack where I can find, you know, what discount what discount s are the ones where you can still trust that bend . I think what you're sorry this ripped I think what you're saying is because we're the same. It's buzzwords isn't it? You're in you're after work. You just look at that. What is the buzzword that you look for in the back of the thing? You go, oh this, I'm in safe hands. Yeah. That's quite that's hard because it's about what you like. So yeah, you're right. If you like red, say like a red what would you look at? Well, I think there's one hat for red is you can't go wrong with Cochu Ron. Now the pedestals will get one there because it's really the Rhone, but that doesn't rhyme. So I would say you can't go wrong with Coptu Ron. Can't do wrong with Co Du Ron. Yeah . There's some great ones around between five and six pounds. There's also great ones around at twenty pounds, but you can never normally go wrong with that one. On the reds. That's a tiny and it rhymes. You can remember it. Just don't have a ton of people copied around last week with Tom Gilby actually. He brought them in. You know the stuff? It was the one where we preferred the three year one, wasn't it? Oh yes, yes, and there was another one that was twenty, it was stank like an oxfam . So let's move on too Let's move on to this red. So what's this? So the neighbor at what you know, where's this living? Well two. I know that you like chateonuve DuPat. I love a chateau to pursue. It's a move Andy. God, Andy . Right up. Do you like a Chateau de Per? I do like Chateaughter. I used to drink that back in the day I used to think I was it. I used to used to love, but it's expensive . It is it is sometimes they have that on a you know, sometimes they're in the supermarket. Cod offer. I know, I know. I've got that. And I go this bin of a steak. I know. So get it while you can. I know don't before they find out. Yeah. normally It's twenty quid, twenty five pounds. Yeah, as the did one before Christmas for ten. I dropped it like that for a week. Yeah. So I put that all over my Instagram. I'm like a padlov dog, cardel pick . Auto glass repair . Auto glass replace. Nice . So neighbor of Shaasinoff Department. Shaastonuf about what makes Chaston about Again, you got the grapes, okay, that go into it. There's a load of those , particularly around Syrua. Grenache is the main one. Well , they can be up to fourteen . It's in the Southern Rhone. This is delicious . And so what is just across the Rhone River is an area called Lirak and it makes I've heard of this. Yeah. And the other distinction of that area is that it has these large stones in the ground on the ground that warm up during the day. They're about this big. They're called galle roulet and they warm up and they retain heat and in the evening they then pass some of that heat back onto the grapes as well. So that helps keep the warm at night which helps to concentrate the flavors over season. It's one of the things that make Chatenaught what it is. In Liarac just across the river, they've got all this as well. It's just people don't really know about Lierac so much. So Chatenauv Dupat twenty five pounds , Lierach, this one's from majestic. twelve pounds . And how far in terms of minutes getting there, is it how far majestic? About ten you live really long in most house . That's where the taxi goes for the route . From Shannon, that's enough to pass, I mean, how far is Lira? The road is about as wide as the Thames around there. So how fast you can get across the river? Poppin' over. Poppin' over. Yeah. Oh my god. Find the nearest bridge. This is so brilliant, honestly, I know you heard of Lira. I've never heard of Lira and I would just I wouldn't take a chance on that. But this is really delicious . And so what would you say then is the best region that you can bank? What would you go right? You're in slave which one which wine there, which color? Why? Well, the Rome is like the Cacho Der whichon is, the broader region around where these both come from as well, actually is generically quite good. So you're always red safe hand. You're always red ucing safe hand with the red with the reds that are there. Yeah. Why is a it harder game and why I find it so much more difficult because it's objective it is some people really love Servien Blanc. Some people hate it, some people love chardonnay, other people hate it. So it's really hard to say which ones which I actually like the ones in the middle've. had You a cut of v ignettes on here, I think . But they don't necessarily come from a certain region. But I would, if I was saying to someone, they go, what should we have for a party? I always say avoid the Seven Blanche, avoid the chardonnays because they're too divisive. They're a bit divisive. Yeah, the things like the Vonia, which everybody loves are real crowd pleasers, pitfalls pretty much there as well . And so it's not so much a region, it's more the grape, I would say and then you can bank on something that's a crowd pleaser. How can you tell, this is the thing though . How can you tell , you know, if this is a six pound bottle of wine with a discount, how do I know that that's gonna be good still? Ultimately you still don't. I mean, ultimately there's no one way there's little a code in the bottom corner that says this is great. You like it . That's where you do have to sort of know what you like. Yes, and know what you're familiar with and yeah, or trust someone like me. I would say well, there's lots of other people do who what I do as well, but it's like go someone who you know their recommendations, you tend to have a similar palette to them. And if they say, Oh, I like this one, I like that one, then just go along with that advice is easy. And is it a bit like food? Is organic wines mostly usually more expensive because of the organic ness. They can be a bit more expensive. It depends. There's a lot of organic, is it natural? There's a lot of different phrases that is it biodynamic that kick around in the wine world and that get a bit more complicated, not necessarily better, just different. And do you have a thing on your Instagram like where you alert people where you go, listen, currently, if you want to go out and get this, head over to as does Saint Idea's Tesco, whatever. I just posted a couple two or three times a week depending on what's on offer and a few stories. If I'm going around a supermarket to see just an absolute banging of a bog and it's like I wish we got those instead of like earthquakes and stuff you know when you found alone alone. Yeah. Much yeah. Oh my god . Owbeck, I'll surprise Little . Yeah, instead of like flood . Jane , half price. Yes, that's it. Internet will be down for half hour, boring . So this and I know you must be bored shitless of asking this answer and this question . But you are oh god, this might be a boring question, but why are some wines in a discount and stuff? Is it just them giving it a little how do they decide it? Yes. And a stupid question out of another like you said sometimes shaft shouting enough to barb. Oh my god bargain and then some is it beyond our recognition or do they just fancy .im Sesomet they've got something that's on promotion and they've got on promotion. But other times at certain times here, particularly around Christmas, they just want to get you in the shop. Right. They know if you come in to get a bottle of wine, you're not going to just leave with that bottle of wine. You're probably going to leave with half a trolley full stuff as well. Of course if they can get you in with this Chaffenhouse perhaps on a half price, which is an amazing deal. You're going to walk out with a lot more of that, especially around Christmas time. So before Christmas you get a lot of money and they might be losing money on that bl.ock Youage know what? It's a game, don't you? You know, supermarkets . The milk always the furthest away. Why to go through? You do go through and you pass that Chateaugh depart. I always wondered why that was at the at the back and they have fresh bread in the always at the back because if you're popping in for a loaf or milk, the essentials, nappies as well. You ever seppies at the front of the store? No, you haven't. And by the time you get to them, they've shit them to see that Oh my god, shout enough to pat pop . Shout Shout . Shout enough to pat . I put in the shack in shatter enough to shatter enough to panthers hatter . Shut enough to poop . Sorry, Andy, we are taking this seriously . Oh God No. All right. So actually, I think that is really interesting. So okay you just recap , can I provide a little bit more? So lovely if honestly, you've opened my mouth . You've opened my mouth . So if you love a coast to Provence, which I think a lot of people do. It's very popular because they want to go for . And basically a lot of people just say pale rosa, you think Coat's de Provence . If you want to go to a Languedoque, is it? Longer Longadoc Long Widoc , you will get pretty much the same taste for quarter of the price, okay? And perfect if you are having parties as well, if you're buying a load of wine If you're buying quite a lot, it ends up saving you twenty thirty equipped, doesn't it? Loading. And so for this one, shat enough to pop Lyrack, Lyrack . Don't be over the river to pop over the river, get lyrack to get a nice red. Remember that? Pop over the river, jum jpum inp in the the boat, jump in the canoe, off you go to Lyric, however you want to get there . And you'll love the results . And that's just And then there's so many more you can do that with as well. What's your handle on Instagram at Affordable Wine Hunter. Okay, perfect. Lots of bargains there. Oh, thank you so much. You've been a h my god, you just blow me mind. It's amazing. You need to pitch that idea where you do like alerts, like push through to your phone. They're all my stories. They're quite a lot but I can't push them to you necessary. You just have to keep them maybe that's a new platform. So many people spend the whole day doing this that you know what? Just take Allan's number and just send him six directly. Give a couple of keywines . They pay you a monthly fee. Yeah . And if I'm in there and buying some nappies, I'll pick up some wine with a chestnut to poop. Hopefully my canoes arrived . If you've enjoyed this episode, why not join the bottoms up crew? Follow us on Spotify and Apple and you'll have a brand new episode dropped on your phone every week. Yeah, you don't want to miss an episode. Please do give us a five star review as well it really, really helps us on YouTube , Spotify or Apple. And do get in touch. We love hearing from you at bottoms up show for your questions , your queries, or your general dilemmas. And don't forget to drink responsibly. Go to drinkaware.co. uk for more info. Bumbs up with Alan Carr and Leipit is a listen production. 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