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3 litre bottle of wine as a gift?

  • 26-08-2009 10:40am
    #1
    buzz55
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I was at a birthday party lately and someone brought the birthday girl a gift of a 3 litre bottle of red wine.
    I really like the idea, and have a few special birthdays coming up in the next few months.

    I believe the gentleman who gave the present may work for a drinks company, so I'm wondering if that is the only source?

    Can anyone advise? I've had a look in the local cash and carry, in case they had ones for pub displays etc. but no joy.

    Anyone any ideas?

    thanks!
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  • #2
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,081 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    I'd go directly to you local wine importer/distributor.
    I'm sure they'd have no problem dealing directly with the public for a one off like that.


  • #3
    MattKane
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭MattKane


    Hi buzz,

    1.5 litre bottles are much easier to find. We used to have a few 3 litre bottles but they didn't last too long :p

    Should be able to get your hands on them more easily coming up to Christmas - I'd say a few of the independents would carry them more readily


  • #4
    buzz55
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭buzz55


    Thanks for all the suggestions, I will keep looking for now and also ask my local wine shop if they can get some in for me.

    Just thought it was an unusual gift & absolutely perfect for a wine lover - if you could get a nice wine in it of course :D


  • #5
    rediguana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭rediguana


    I would love to get a large bottle of wine as a present. I suppose the catch, from the gift-giver's point of view, is that a 3l bottle contains four standard bottles. To get something even just basic you're looking at €50+ .

    I think a magnum is extravagant and impressive enough myself, I must say!

    I see Matt Kane posted further up the thread. I recently bought a magnum (i.e. 1500ml btl / 2 standard btls) of Chianti Classico (1998) from his company, www.curiouswines.ie , called "The Nativity". The wine had been blessed in barrel by Pope John Paul and there is a little pic inside the wooden presentation box showing His Holiness chatting with the winemaker about yields and must adjustments.

    Anyway, I got it as a present for the priest that married myself and my wife last year. He's also my wife's second-cousin; the whole "pope wine" thing went down a storm with the wife's family.

    Here it is (for anyone with a priest in the family!). It's €75.

    http://bit.ly/15mIJP


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