In Reply to: Wine in Bali posted by Bowler on Friday, 23. July 2004 at 07:53 Bali Time:
We like a nice dry W.A. white or 3 ourselves and always take 2 which is all you are really allowed and they very probably will pick you up these days which is more expensive than the wine is worth.
The alternatives are
1. either take your own 2 Aussie wines which leaves you 500ml in hand
for a little bottle of spirits at the duty free.
2. Or go to Bintang Supermarket in Seminyak, all the taxi drivers
know it. Their Aussie whites were, I think, about double what we
would pay here but doubtlessly somebody will post a correct price.
3. One intrepid poster here buys 4lt. water casks carefully opens
them from the bottom and does the old switcheroo with wine. This
actually is a very good idea because cask white Aussie wine, we
believe tastes better than Indonesian white bottled. (we don't
drink cask wine as a rule, so you can work out what we feel
about the white over there, of course it could just be our
taste). Not having her self controll this is not a good
option for us as we would induce a terrible hangover the first
couple of days and still end up at Bintang Supermarket.
4. Now this idea is our latest and I wish you could whisper in
cyber space like you can SHOUT. We have taken to buying Hattens
Rose in Bali Rp.45,000 from Bintang Supermarket and anything from
Rp.75,000 to Rp100,000 at restaurants. What's worse is, we like
it. The same thing has happenned to a friend of mine who I met
drinking a bottle at a restaurant in north Legian. Mind you her's
was concealed in a wine cooler.
Whatever you do, Bottms up and have a good trip.