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Cheers OP, will give this a try.

I dont know it so I'll vote it hot to cancel it out for you

Thats ok, no worries, happens to all of us. As long as you like the vodka at this price, thats the main thing :)

Voted cold by mistake but this is decent vodka

Wow tenner for a litre is a wicked price for sure :)

Great deal, thanks for posting (unicorn)

With staff discount I don't know whether to get this or the Old Pulteney 12 that's at £24... Decisions decisions!

Don't worry, I posted @£24 delivered a couple of weeks ago and I still got cold votes today! Currently minus 195......... (lol)

I haven’t voted either way at £22, but £35 is an inflated RRP. This is on offer at around these prices on a regular basis. Its really average whisky in my opinion, but some people like it and that’s fine

all you cold voters must drink bells :3

What, yes, Amazon is free delivery?

Yes, but not in all those other sites someone else quoted that were cheaper.

Is amazon free delivery now?

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The last time it was £25 was Christmas.

And then you have to add delivery.

I've recently been buying from a Spanish off licence (gourmet en casa). Some of the stuff including postage is half the UK price. Unfortunately I think it wouldn't be a recognised seller for this site.

Lovely stuff but a bit too pricey

It's the most expensive it's been all year?

It's normally reduced to £22, if not £20 or even £18

Asda does 4 for £6 so bit better value at Asda if it’s more convenient

Did the same with Budweiser, used to be 5% but has dropped to 4 and a half.

£1.49 in Lidl.

Is it safe to drink?

Uncannily i was in A in M yesterday and picked 3 of these up,

i did a taste test with aldi's french premium, lidl's french premium and grey goose. aldi's wasn't that good and there was zero difference between lidl's at £14 and grey goose. https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/spirits/ignis-french-grain-vodka/p15791

Great! Ordered thanks! I only buy when on offer. Will definitely try the Lidl french vodka next though!

seriously? i have had several bottles of this stuff. i've also had several of belvedere, skull head, reyka, ciroc, etc. and tbh vodka is one of those spirits where only idiots spend more than £20 on a bottle. it is ethanol and water. 2 ingredients to make vodka. it's not rocket science. my go to is russian standard or absolut plus lets not pretend you drink it straight either. once you mix any half decent vodka like russian standard with coke it's impossible to tell the difference between that and grey goose. as for being a peasant. i own a Rado which is an expensive watch. I bought it when i was 18 so probably a lot sooner than most folk bought their omega's. i drive a BMW and a Lexus and I live in a large detached home. So I can afford grey goose and I do have 4 bottles of it currently in the bar. however three of them were gifted to me. the other i bought for the fancy insulated bottle holder at duty free. not bad price at £25 but tbh an £18 bottle of russian standard does the exact same job and tastes no different. grey goose is also one of those products that has been successful due to marketing not because of it's taste or quality. the guy who invented it also invented jagermeister. again 2 drinks that have came out of nowhere in the past 15 years and took over because they are cool to be seen drinking. It was created in the 1990s by Sidney Frank, who sold it in 2004 to Bacardi. Frank was born to a Jewish family[2] in Montville, Connecticut. His father and mother were Abraham and Sarah Frank. He grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, and graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1937. He attended Brown University (class of 1942) but left because he could only afford one year of tuition. He later made enormous gifts to the university to ensure that no student would ever be forced to leave Brown because of inability to pay tuition.[3] During World War II, Frank worked for Pratt and Whitney as a manufacturer's representative in India exploring ways to improve engine performance enabling aircraft to deal with the high altitudes encountered in the CBI theater. This was particularly important in improving the performance of transport aircraft flying supplies into China. The use of alcohol injection for aircraft engines was one of the approaches taken. Frank's first wife, Louise "Skippy" Rosenstiel, was the daughter of Lewis Rosenstiel, founder of Schenley Industries, one of the largest American distiller and spirit importers. Frank joined Schenley after his marriage and rose to the company presidency, but was forced out in a family dispute in 1970. In 1973 his wife died and he started his own company, Sidney Frank Importing Company, where he served as chairman and chief executive officer. The company is based in New Rochelle, New York where Frank lived (he had a home in Rancho Santa Fe, California as well). In 1973, he secured the importing rights to Jägermeister.[4] Frank's first big success with his own company was with Jacques Cardin brandy, a brand he purchased from Seagram in 1979. In the 1980s, Jägermeister became popular with College students In Louisiana and Frank promoted it heavily,[4] advertising it as the best drink in the world, turning a specialty brand into a mainstream success. In 1997, he developed Grey Goose vodka, made in France by François Thibault,[5] and was so successful in promoting it that he sold the brand to Bacardi for $2 billion in June 2004. In the last years of his life, Frank bought the Travel Savvy and Business Traveler magazine titles for $4 million. The wheat used in the creation of Grey Goose vodka is grown in Picardy, France. Distilled in the same region, north and east of Paris, the distillate is then sent to Cognac, France, where it is blended with spring water and bottled. The wheat used in Grey Goose is soft winter wheat, sown in October and harvested in August, which provides it with four additional months of growth in comparison to summer wheat. The wheat sold to Grey Goose is categorized as "superior bread-making wheat", and wheat that is soft. Although made from wheat, as a distilled spirit, Grey Goose is gluten-free.[5] The distillation process removes the gluten from the purified final product.[6] Enzymes are used to break down the carbohydrates into fermentable sugars. The fermentation takes place continuously over six cascading tanks, producing a 20-proof beer. The wash is then distilled into spirit using a five-step process. The water used in the vodka comes from a natural spring 150 meters (500 feet) below the blending facility in Cognac, which is lined with limestone, providing calcium-rich spring water. That water is then filtered to remove impurities. After the filtration the vodka is bottled in a plant dedicated solely to bottling Grey Goose. Grey Goose vodka is bottled with a replaceable cork rather than a screw-top cap. So the next time you buy Grey Goose for £40 you are basically paying the extra £20 for 420ml of french spring water that's been added to it as opposed to the 420ml of another type of clean water added to absolut.

You can get a cheaper car than a bmw too but people still buy them.. dont understand your point.

This may seem strange, but I judge the quality of a vodka brand on a pounding headache. A cheap and nasty vod gives me a blinding headache from the 1st glass, whereby anything from Smirnoff up doesn’t. I’m no expert but I can only assume that’s down to the filtering and distillation process. It’s no secret cheaper vod wouldn’t be filtered and distilled in quite the same way as premium brands.

Another (y) for drop store. No idea why they don't allow deals for them on this website, my order was delivered quickly by DHL and even had a couple of free samples including hand sanitser! They're part of a reputable trade wholesaler that's been in business years. When I tried to post a deal i was told not allowed due to "not enough feedback for this merchant". I accept HUKD have rules and that's fine - it seemed odd though considering some of the merchants that are allowed that have consistently terrible feedback.

Yeah it was.

Thought that was just the grapefruit one.

£20 in morrisons

Banned in terms of posting a deal on hotukdeals from dropstore...

Wonder why this is under the electronic category..

Very true. There’s a Tesco Metro about 10 miles away that I always pop into whenever I’m nearby. I’m pretty sure their stock controller/purchaser likes the finer things in life as they always have decent stuff “reduced to clear”. I bet he/she knows it’s going to sit on the shelf for a couple of weeks and then as soon as that £40 bottle gets reduced to £11.35... Christmas has come early! (lol)

I’ve never managed to ascertain any logic behind the where/when/why any given supermarket in the UK stocks any particular Kentucky bourbon/rye whiskey. Sometimes it just turns up in bulk and you’re in the right place at the right time. I quite like wandering to the spirits aisle of various supermarkets wherever I am because it’s nice when you find something relatively obscure for a reasonable fee, presumably because neither the shop nor the local consumers realise what they have on their hands.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth etc. Victimless crime imho!! (y)

Does anyone happen to know why the usual supermarkets have stopped stocking the regular 81? It would often be available for £15 but now all I see is the 101 for £30+

As I say, I think it was meant to be normal wild turkey burbon rather than the 101 burbon. As the label at the front said just Wild Turkey. But there wasn't any normal out.

(skeptical)

This is for me the best whisky I've ever tried. I found it at Tesco last year for £24 and took a punt. I think it was listed originally at £37 so at 35 is not too much of a discount and I'll not be buying. At that price I'll try something I've not had before.

Not chocolatey. Closer to amaretto

Alcholic Nutella? Yuk!

This was so disappointing, really looking forward to trying it but very underwhelming

I think I'm missing something with this stuff. Bought 2 bottles last year when it was around this price I think, and after trying it once I haven't touched it again, perhaps I need to find some decent mixing recipes.

Cheapest I've seen it, bought cheers

Used to love their 10 year old whisky. This is actually pretty good for a cheap NAS, always pick a few bottles up when it drops to £18.

The best of the NAS under £22 imo but this is a standard price for it. Good value but no deal for me.

Quite interesting pricing on this. So, a 3rd. party on Amazon did sell it for £14 in 2018, but of course that may not have been free shipping. Amazon have had it bouncing around the £20 mark with the odd dip down to £17 in the last 12 months, I have set a 3Camel alert accordingly!

Never seen it £14. Cheapest was £16 with amazon about 2 and a half years ago.

Really, where? You can't really do much better for £20, good accessible whisky. If I can get a pointer to it at £14 I'll definitely grab a few.

I paid £6.50 a bottle on CellarOne when you buy 6 and it’s free delivery. Get recommended by someone who has an account (ie, someone who has already made a purchase) and that comes down to £4.83 a bottle and still free delivery. They also have the Rosè version.

Think the Villa Maria one is a good competitor - was £9.50 down to £7 too, though is 0.5% stronger ;) https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/251182290

The Lidl Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc at £5.99 is fantastic and one of the only wines we like from there. https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/product-recommendation/cimarosa-malborough-sauvignon-blanc/p12002

Same price at Asda: Link is banned But at Morrisons it's on a buy 2 get one free for £6.34 a bottle so the deal is better than the Tesco one. https://morrisons.queue-it.net/?c=morrisons&e=morrisonsshop&t=https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/mud-house-sauvignon-blanc-263684011&cid=en-GB

This is one of the best rated white wines on Majestic. (And this is cheaper than majestic) https://www.majestic.co.uk/wines/mud-house-sauvignon-blanc-37323 Worth a try!

It is lovely, but it's just too easy to drink. :D

Heat, this stuff really is good. Especially for those who prefer a sweet sherry finish as opposed to those peaty sea flavoured whiskys

Good price, decent whisky

It’s my favourite Glenfiddich and this is a decent price for it. It’s fairly regularly on offer in the low £30s and well worth trying if you haven’t before.

Looks to be this price fairly often.

Similar price at Amazon if someone isn't in the mood to drive https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/zubrowka-bison-grass-vodka-700-ml-3468071 :)

Normally have a bottle of this in the fridge but trying the Co-op's French-grain vodka having seen recommendation here. 8)

More vodka to try. Cool

Has to be real cloudy apple juice IMO

This with apple juice is a different level of alcoholic beverage <3

I served someone a vodka water once, didnt know the soda water pump wasnt soda water (lol) (lol) (lol)

You're lucky. My mate got me a double water when I asked for a Vodka tonic....

Sad act

I like whiskey neat, but the original JD I couldn't even drink it with coke, found it disgusting

The spirit in it doesn't really matter too much does it when you are adding Coke to it?

Russian Standard - don't see a reason to pay any more. GG is all branding.

This has no place on anyone's vodka shelf (lol)

Hahaha. The only place I've ever seen it and bought it is the airport and I doubt they sell knock off. . Its utterly vile. The black is smooth. But the 50% blue can get in the sea. Unless in the last 20 years they've made it nice!? I used to buy it as an 18 year old got bang for my buck, but even back then I realised that anything that tasted like I something that could remove gloss paint shouldn't be consumed.

I'll give this a whirl to see if the hype is worth it. Thanks op (y)

I think you may have drinking fake Smirnoff Blue, it's strong yes but very smooth with a sherberty edge when mixed. I prefer it straight though.

But you will not get the box

.......and they have!! Ordered, thanks OP (y)

Might as well triple up contribution to UK economy getting Tesco's Finest 12 year old Highland Whisky - probably rebottled Dalmore 12 so all aspects of your money is going to UK shop, supplier and UK distillery Tastes better than mass produced, yearless whisky trading on it's popularity and name https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/260089446

I stick with Tesco's as I believe they're more helpful with our tax burden - quite an important thing to me at a time when national debt is sky-rocketing due to covid19.

Soon as I saw this, went amazon and they are selling at same price also

I think the greasyness is a sign of applying too much. This stuff is good if used in small amounts. If lots is used it goes bitty and then greasy. I have found this stuff reduced in quality over the years. The original ‘brew’ was much better, this stuff has certainly been cheapened, but like you I like it because it does get absorbed if used sparingly - just no where near as well as it did years ago.

I find the opposite actually, moved to this one years ago as it was the only one that didn’t make you look greasy when hot

£2.99 each in Home Bargains

Agreed, not so bad if you use less and take your time but I'm lazy so I prefer the gel version you get in the pump bottles.

Will this stop me looking so upset?