You might remember the stir that was created a few months ago when six cheap Aldi wines blitzed the Sydney International Wine Competition. “Australia’s biggest wine snobs have sniffed, sipped and spat their way through more than 2000 wines — only to judge six bottles from Aldi as among the best the country has to offer,” read the news reports. It was the best publicity the discount supermarket chain could have wished for, and demand immediately went through the roof. Christine Salins, writer for 'Food, Wine, Travel' set about the task of tasting all six wines to see for herself whether they are really that good.

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