While I am always on the lookout for reasonably priced wines to enjoy with dinner and sometimes lunch (now that I often work from home), it is even more important now with the pandemic, where people like to make less trips out and budgets are likely more stressed. I decided to see what’s currently available from my local Supersol in the NIS 50 range. I think that’s a fair price for a good everyday wine. I picked a supermarket because, quite frankly, if I have to venture out amongst the rest of the world to shop anyway, why not avoid a trip to another store and just stock up on some everyday wines while I shop. While this is not Europe where you can have your pick of nice everyday kosher wines priced between 6-13 Euros, we are starting to see a greater selection in this segment in Israel. This is key. Even in the US with its strict liquor licensing rules and archaic alcohol distribution regulations, more than half of wines sales today come from supermarkets (not kosher of course, but this is not the time for that particular rant). I chose three wines – each from a different kosher wine producing country. From Israel, we have the 2019 Recanati Syrah, from Spain the 2019 ElviWines Herenza Rioja Semi Crianza, and from Italy the 2018 Montaro Chianti. Overall, I am pretty happy. First of all, the Elvi is a QPR star – supermarket or not. Just a really wonderful bottle IMHO. The Recanati performed well and even the Montaro showed improvement over last year. All in all a very successful supermarket trip indeed. Happy drinking!