Cheapy Wine From Aldi Awarded As One Of Australia's Best

Just because wine is cheap, it doesn’t mean its nasty! Aldi has just proved this by winning a prestigious award for one of its very inexpensive wines.

The Blackstone Paddock Limited Release Chardonnay 2017, which is on the Aldi shelves at only $14.99 a bottle has won Best White Wine in the Western Australia category at the Singapore Airlines Wine Show.

The wine was labelled standout in the class which attracted 108 entries and eight gold medals.

The wine beat competitors that cost more than five times its price, including Flametree SRS Wallcliffe, Xanadu Stevens Road and Vasse Felix Heytesbury, which goes for $85 a drop.

As reported in the Daily Mail, the show is the biggest competition for WA wines and had 834 entrants this year.

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A Grape Choice

This is not the first time that Aldi has been a grape winner.

Last year One Road Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot 2015, $6.99, won wine of the year and Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut No. III, $20, scored a medal for the best champagne in the world.

Chief judge Samantha Connew, a Tasmanian winemaker, spoke to the West Australian.

‘The 2017 chardonnays were very strong and world class as always and with the cooler vintage showing through in tighter, more coiled wines, these will provide good drinking for some time to come,’ she said.

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20 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 25 Nov 2022
    11:49 am
I dont drink which im thankful for as its very expensive as a regular habit

- - skbou said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    8:09 pm
Don’t mind a drop of red occasionally.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 30 Nov 2018
    1:25 pm
Very interesting have to give it a go

- - mom7108 said
  - 23 Nov 2018
    12:55 pm
Most of the wine I buy is around the $15 mark. There is a great red from liquorland that is around $6! and it has won awards

- - mom81879 said
  - 05 Nov 2018
    5:06 pm
Most of Aldis products are sourced in Australia. I haven’t tried their wine as I don’t like wine, but I have tried their beer and it was very nice. I’m not much of a beer liner either, but the Aldi brand went down very nicely

- - Blossom said
  - 11 Oct 2018
    10:42 pm
I wonder where this wine actually originates from. Do they have their own wineries in Aust.? A lot of Aldi’s products come from overseas.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 10 Oct 2018
    4:51 pm
Go Aldi! We buy our wine there – it’s great

- - rovermum said
  - 10 Oct 2018
    9:17 am
Wow! I don’t buy alcohol from Aldi but I know plenty who do and have claimed their alcohol is great. I’m just not a big drinker at all so I would go to my Liquorland or Dan Murphy.

- - MisChip said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    11:17 pm
Good to know. Ordinarily I wouldn’t buy alcohol from there at all.

- - mom101628 said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    9:40 pm
Just don’t like shopping at Aldi at all

- - BellaB said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    7:16 pm
My palate isn’t that sophisticated anyway.

- - mom90758 said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    5:59 pm
Aldi generally offers very good quality products indeed!!

- - ella12 said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    9:46 am
Might have to stock up on the Aldi wine.

- - mom270319 said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    9:31 am
I agree I am in the Hunter the home of wine and admit most of my purchases are made in my local Aldi’s .As a former restaurateur and knowing a lot about wines I have constantly been surprised by the quality of their wines and even more pleased with the prices

- - rachel1970 said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    7:12 am
Oh, I think I know where I’m going to buy a bottle of wine from on the weekend!

- - Ellen said
  - 09 Oct 2018
    4:06 am
Good to know ! i buy regularly a cheaper wine at Aldi. $14.99 is a bit expensive for a wine for me though.

- - Myrlie said
  - 08 Oct 2018
    10:30 pm
If only I could try it… Aldi isn’t allowed to sell alcohol in QLD ????
- Ellen replied
  
  09 Oct 2018 , 4:11 am
  Bummer, that’s no good !
- - Krinny91 said
  - 08 Oct 2018
    7:42 pm
I love Aldi’s cheap pink Moscato. So nice

- - ashna9 said
  - 08 Oct 2018
    7:21 pm
It might be time to try some of these