Finding the best wine at the best price. Do you buy your wine at the Supermarket or do you shop around?

Where wine producers are constrained by quotas, the producer has to limit the number of bottles of wine that they are allowed to produce in any one year. It does not matter that it has been a particularly good year for wine production, the limit is the limit and the producer must not exceed his quota. In European countries where this regulation is enforced, it can mean that some of the best wine would go to waste. This quota can however work in your favour because some of the surplus wine is sold to enterprising bodegas where you can have the wine in bottles with your own label. I don’t know about you, but the label has never been that important to me but the wine is. You can’t drink a label!

There is such a bodega in Torre del Mar near Velez Malaga, where a charming and very knowledgeable lady sells such wine and at the most affordable prices. If you buy wine according to price and not taste then you can probably buy a decent wine for just a little over a Euro. However, my advice would be to ask the lady. Her knowledge of wine is almost inexhaustible and you might just as well benefit from the advice which has been gathered over a large number of years.

Describe the wine that you like and she will undoubtedly find just what you are looking for. If you like wine and most people do, even if they are not drinking it all the time, why not treat yourself to a real experience where you can explore using someone else’s knowledge to your benefit and to the benefit of your pocket. After all, it makes sense to buy the best but it also makes sense to not pay full whack for what you enjoy.

You could also design your own label and have your own HOUSE RED OR WHITE. It might also be a unique present for friends who have a birthday or some other celebration.

Open Monday to Friday 10 -2 and 5.30 to 8 pm and 10 to 2 on Saturdays
Telephone: 952 545 804
Vinomar can be found at Calle Piscis Bajo 1B, Torre de Mar
For those with a GPS 36°44’48.20″N 4° 5’23.63″W