Cheap "Goon" Berri Cask Wine - 5ltr x 3 for $30! @ BWS & Woolworths Liquor
This was posted 5 months 12 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
Pick your poison - red or white. It's as simple as deciding whether to drink VB or 4X.
The pouches also make excellent pillows for the extra resourceful type(us cheapskates) who might happen to indulge to excess, without nearby accommodation for the night.
Can't wait to show all my guests what I put in my coveted wine cellar :)
There is nothing I could do to stop whatever happens after the minor left the store. I'm not going to risk being fined (as well as the company being fined and potentially losing employment and RSA certificate). It's in the training, and against the law to sell alcohol to a minor.
I doubt a child would be expected to pass as an adult to buy alcohol or else be punished by an adult. If they were punished, it would be very irresponsible and honestly I don't mind that adult not having their alcohol.
(the contents of this comment are my own opinion and do not necessarily represent the opinion of woolworths)
darthhasbro on 08/01/2013 - 08:45 ¶Cheaper at Grays with a $20 coupon, however goon sacks don't break like bottles…
+21 votesI've seen these 5l jobbies as low as $8.50 (only once, at Dan Murphy in Prahran). They can be had almost weekly for under $12 (if you buy 2)… thus I routinely lug 2 of them back from DM in Prahran up to the top of Domain Road: it's my cardio.
The Aldi plonk ($2.49 a bot - never seen them at $2) is drinkable, although the "Colombard Chardonnay" is best used to clean the grout in the shower cubicle.
You can also get a dozen bots of Shiraz or Chardonnay from ACG in Toorak Road for $23 (that's 8 litres for those playing at home), but it's a pain to carry up the hill.
Disclosure: I have a very broad definition of 'drinkable': when The Lovely and I lived in Deepest Darkest France, we routinely bought a 5l of Rosé from Carrefour for 3.90€ (going to a "cave door" place that had a petrol-bowser style delivery system got that down even further… to 0.45€/litre). Our neighbours bought their plonk in a 30l bladder - it was a 'rough red' that tasted like a mix between Shiraz and Finish Dishwashing (the tablets, not the liquid).
ProTip - blitz your red: put it in a blender for about 30sec then let it sit for a minute or so. It changes the tannins in a way similar to aging the wine for 5 years. I tried it with the ACG Shiraz and it made a 2012 Shiraz taste less like petrol.
EDIT: the alcohol of the Berri booze is 11%. Of the Aldi booze: 12.5%.
+1 votesupabrudda on 08/01/2013 - 10:38 ¶Well the 4lt Aldi Red winebox ($8.99) is quite drinkable (even better if chilled)…..much more so then their 2lt box.
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From memory those boxes are only 9% alcohol though (maybe I'm thinking of the 'Soft Fruity White" or whatever they call it).
And yes - I always chill them. A red has to be pretty decent (at least 10 years old, and St Emilion or better) for it to be better at Australian room temperature. Don't let any wine tosser tell you otherwise - most of them couldn't tell Burgundy (Pinot Noir, in our lingo) from Bordeaux (Merlot/CabSav) in a blind taste, and can't tell a good Bordeaux from vat-scrapings. (Sounds harsh, but in fact even the "best" [most self-promoting and pretentious] wine-tossers can't reliably differentiate between a $2000 wine and a $15 wine of the same varietal in a genuinely blind taste… that was proven in the 90s).
- +3 votessupabrudda on 08/01/2013 - 13:46 ¶
well report back when you do….before i cut a hole in my winebox for the stick blender to fit in
I'm going to go down to the BWS in Richmond and get some of these if they've got any. 4.5l for a tenner, of proper wine in actual bottles… hard to see how you can go wrong.
If they call it 'dry' then doubtless it will taste like chewing on grape stalks (until I whack the Bamix into the decanter).
+8 votesGOON.OF.FORTUNE
- +1 votewolfenator87 on 08/01/2013 - 08:38 ¶
"A mixture of red and white wines can be used if players are of expert level however only 1 variety is recommended for amateurs".
Great drinking party game/ice breaker!
I've never mixed up 2 types of wine before(always stick to red).
Maybe I should pour several glass of each variety and drink them all at once so I can attain the rank of "Expert Goon Drinker".Surely that would look impressive on my CV?
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I was staggered that "Bottles & Kegs" did not appear on that list of drinking games.
It's where you go around the table, counting out loud: each time the number is divisible by (or contains) seven, you have to say "Bottles", and if it's divisible by 5, "Kegs". If you fail, you scull.
That was when back I was a young soldier - and back then soldiers were (quasi-)numerate.
- +7 votessupabrudda on 08/01/2013 - 10:39 ¶
Class doesn't come from a Glass
It comes from a winebox which turns into a pillow
+10 votesClaireChris on 08/01/2013 - 08:54 ¶Excellent. 9 months from this sale the population of Frankston will have doubled.
-1 votejusttoreply on 08/01/2013 - 10:02 ¶VB is so bad I'd rather drink light beer. And I dont drink light beer (I'll make an exception for rogers).
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Light beer is like decaffeinated coffee: start with something that tastes awful, then remove the one thing that makes it worth consuming.
Then again, I only drink for one reason: to achieve an altered state of consciousness (only in the most trivial way, but enough to make the day feel like it ended relatively well).
+1 voteI'm not even kidding when I say the people in parliament probably take more drugs than the teenagers they preach they are protecting. It's not that they aren't clever it's just that they have no interest in anything but themselves. I'd much rather go back to John Howard or Kevin Rudd because both of them at least felt accountable to the population. It's almost like they have shareholders or something these days.
+2 votesAlcohol excise is pure politics. No one will support a volumetric alcohol tax because wine growers have so much political clout. Brewers have a bit less and distillers even less than that so they get whacked for tax.
All that has happened is that the alcohol industry is now pushing cider because it attracts excise at roughly the same rate as wine. So now you have strawberry cider instead of strawberry vodka drinks. Brilliant.
- +3 voteswolfenator87 on 08/01/2013 - 12:28 ¶
Then you are not being persuasive(paragon) or intimidating(renegade) enough with your pre-defined conversation branches, to the checkout clerk in order to get a pre-discounted price. (Anyone who has played Mass Effect will know how to deal with such a situation)
But in all seriousness, sometimes they are willing to be flexible with the start and end-dates of sale prices and make an exception if you play your cards right. I have done this at a few medium sized businesses , but don't know if Woolies policy would allow.
In another wine sale(yes, i buy and drink lots of wine), I was a day late at Chambers Cellars and the manager granted me the sale price for the product. I rewarded his good deed by purchasing 6 boxes of wine :)
Heck, just go back tomorrow when the sale starts LOL.
You could possibly persuade a manager or supervisor, but a normal clerk would not be able to give you the special that commences the following day, mainly because it hasn't been entered into the system until later at night.
(I just work for woolworths and don't represent them)
+5 voteschansthename on 08/01/2013 - 15:28 ¶I'm Commander Shepard and this is the cheapest goon on the citadel.
theguyrules on 08/01/2013 - 12:24 ¶Man this is great. Will grab some to retain my 'uni student' status.
meanozbgnr on 08/01/2013 - 18:06 ¶bought last time when it was 2 for $22, white was really nice but dry red needed some mix with water to be nice, thanks OP
- wolfenator87 on 08/01/2013 - 22:43 ¶
The only time I inadvertently water down the concentration of wine is when I add ice cubes to chill the drink. However, I dislike anything that dilutes the alcohol. Each to their own.
I find cask wine to be somewhat weak tasting compared to most bottled products which seem to have a heavier taste.
+1 voteIs there a cask version of something similar to a moscato? (obviously without the bubbles)
Bought a case of moscato for my wife at grays so dont really need any yet but was interested for something to just leave in the fridge when we dont have a bottle handy.
BTW those deals at grays were great. Ended up with 48 bottles of wine for a cost of around $100 delivered.
I'm on holidays and was walking past BWS so thought I should check here and see of there were any bargains. My wife told me to give her a head start back to the car, she didn't want to walk with me while I was carrying 3 goon bags through the shopping centre! I've only tried the dolce rosso (was only room for one in the freezer for a quick chill down) and it is pretty ordinary lol. Drank a skinful anyway and I think the room has finally stopped spinning…
- wolfenator87 on 10/01/2013 - 08:22 ¶
Your wife should embrace the goon, not be shamed by it!
I always pick the "dry red"(Shiraz) as I find their "exotic" flavours to be rather light or sweet tasting, which isn't my kind of thing.
You telling me you drank 5 whole litres of wine by yourself in one sitting?
Damn, I've had maybe 2ltrs max in one party and I was in a bad state. Really, I don't try to get drunk anymore, just like the taste of it which is kind of addicting.
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I'm up in Mildura so I was needing something I could drink chilled. Don't think I could chill a Shiraz, goon or no.
I didn't drink all 5 litres, just "a skin full" as the saying goes. Or did I just make that up.
Edit: after using the highly accurate and scientific method of using the bathroom scales, I conclude I had precisely about half last night.
- wolfenator87 on 11/01/2013 - 22:09 ¶
Sorry, never heard that expression used before.
I read it literally("Skin full") as in the whole wine bladder/box/skin/pillow/LOL/Whatever.
Half is still a very impressive effort, well done!
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Reminds me of the days I used to work at a liquor shop and a clearly underage aboriginal boy came in to buy the wine his mother had sent him to the shop to buy… he didn't know the name but his mother told him to get the one with "The Lady in the Boat". GOLD! (I didnt sell it to him btw)