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klongmaster

Thanks for that...i'm going next week...

any suggestions where one can find these?

RDN

I brought these over from England 4 years ago. You put the rubber bung in the wine bottle and use the white plunger device to suck all the air out. Keeps the wine fresh for days.




But I hardly ever use it now as I usually drink the whole bottle.

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Whiteshiva

My own little trick is to tilt the bottle 45 degrees, fill the bottle with gas from a lighter (Propane-Butane mix). The gas, being heaveier than air, displaces the latter, and does not react with the wine (as the oxygen in air does). Recork, and the wine in the bottle easily lasts a few days if refrigerated.

I strongly suggest you refrain from smoking while pouring from or refilling the bottle, though.....

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Roc

Cheers gang.

t.s

all wine in thailand is radically overpriced, but you gotta have it

wine connection nana square (and other locations) is always a very interesting place to find decent wine, that is if wine in a box is not something you would consider an option.

They have an eclectic and rotating selection from between 500 + baht a bottle. The ideal range in my experience is the 8-900 range for consistency, but there are some really good 500 baht wines and the often have promos where 900+ wines go for around 550

they usually have some really interesting spanish and italian stuff and their aus selection is pretty good too. the best thing is these are not the crap hardys blends that pass as wine the kindom over and the wines rotate out of stock frequently and seem to be properly handled, soemthing that cannot be said about foodland

the wines at foodland are very run of the mill, mostly common international brands at inflated prices. Gato negro anyone?

the selection at villa seems a bit better, but the wines are quite hit and miss and you always have to buy their 2 for 1 specials etc. there are a few there that i really like for around 1200 for 2.

Skyline

Klongmaster,

The 5 litre boxes are available at any of the duty free shops on the Laos side of the Friendship BridgePrices from $8-$20!!!Bring me back a couple,ive just finished my last one

cali kid

I used to look for good wines in bkk, the Villa was I think defenitely had the best selection in bkk but honestly, TESCO is not bad at all, especialy as you can regulary find wines from Chile or California for around 299 ( it just seems wrong to drink wine from a box) If you are in chiang mai the same goes for TESCO or you could find a selection better than the villas at Rim Ping supermarket

breezer1

tesco good collection of wines all drinkable

conn

You can take one normal bottle I think 75Cl tax free. The rest you can take as much as you like but 200% tax plus 7% vat. I guess buy them here cheaper.


Yeh, it's true. Wine cork pop in cargo of the plane. They don't allow you to take liquid into flight anymore (bomb reason). Again, buy them here cheaper than labour it all the way around the world. Or better yet send cargo shipment control tempt. and go though normal custom.

Blake7

I always stash at least 5 bottles of wine in my luggage and have never had any pop when flying.

Fabian

Neither have I. Beer cans no problem either.

Blake7

^ actually a friend of mine had a can of beer explode in his suitcase so...

Marmite the Dog

Some dickhead in Aus had a bottle of red and a bottle of Bundy break on him recently.

DrAndy

Life is too short to drink bad wine

EmperorTud

I just polished off a bottle of Argentinian red I brought back from the border at Poipet and very nice it was too. Tonight I have a Chilean red which I'm just about to uncork.

I pay around $10 per bottle from the Bayon Market international supermarket when I'm in Phnom Penh (it's on Monivong). The same wines are from 1,200THB up to a staggering 3,000THB in Foodland.

There's a lot of discrepancy with prices at Thai supermarkets so shop carefully.

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forreachingme

Link to order wine online at Bacchus Soi Ruam Rudee...

You can select wine by prices, they might even home deliver and take back overstock of parties...



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