Bahrain

[ia1166]

wine is pretty pricey particularly in restaurants.( roughly count on 15 uk for house wine, 30 uk for anything half decent (barolo chianti etc) and upwards) as is all alcohol. you can only bring back 6 cans of beer and one bottle (wine or spirits) a month so its not worth it. I actually like the brit club as its in town, cheap, good food and the pool is refrigerated in summer. squash courts and tennis etc. the yacht club is v expensive to join if you don't have a boat, way out of town and there is ****** all going on during the week. i'm a member there because of my boat but spend my days off at the brit club if there is nothing else going on. meridian is a lot of things but i wouldn't count good value as one of them. its pretty pricey and usually the reserve of the corporate membership people. fiddlers is ok and the only happening place during ramadan, murphys is great on a weekend, but the beer is more expensive than any other bar in town except maybe sherlocks. count on around 4 uk pounds a pint. Warblers is much better value, and you don't get many locals in there which is a bonus, unless you want to be stared at while you stand next to your boyfriend, in which case murphys and bjs are a better bet.

[ironbutt57]

Best thing to do is just come...stamp in on a visit visa...then let your contacts here sort out the details...lots of pubs...no worries..

[Nightrider]

Ridders....the visa situation has changed. UK citizens will get a 3 months tourist visa on arrival.
And if you are interested in a nice hostie job...let me know...may be able to convert that tourist visa easily in a legal working visa...

[Possum 15]

G'burg, Hardys 2000 Shiraz Cab. Sav approx AUD18. Rosemount Estate 2001 Shiraz Cabernet Approx AUD 16.

Ramadan stocks nearly gone. Please send booze parcel.

Hang on, maybe moon-sighting Friday or Saturday so cancel parcel request.

[Gnadenburg]

Thanks Possum

Dissolve tough Kangaroo fillets with those brands back home.

Great info, thanks.

Only one bottle duty free?

[Ridders]

Cheers Nightrider...check your private messages.

[sirwa69]

Wine

Would not recomend drinking the cask stuff as it gives you a major headache. It is about BD 7 for 5 litres in the booze shop.

For normal quaffing (about 12 bottles a week) I buy Maison Calvet from BMMI. It is a French Table wine and very drinkable it retails at BD 1.9 a bottle but if you join BMMI Premier club and buy it by the case you can get it for BD 1.615 (15%) a bottle which makes it very good value.

There is a good range of wine with a bottle of French Chablis about BD 10 and Mouton Cadet at BD 7

Bottoms Up

[ironbutt57]

C'mon matey...the ozzie boxed wine is pretty good...this from a yank hooked on california wine....quit whining about the wine

[Gnadenburg]

Ironbutt

Aussie cask wine has always been better than your bottled stuff!

Headache? Crushed sultanna grapes, food colouring to make it red wine and heaps of sulphur dioxide- I think so.

Sirwa

Thanks for the info. Do they stock premiums? Bordeaux or Northern Rhone?

Thanks for the info gentleman. Working my way down the list of priorities, will eventually come to something aviation related.

[ferris]

Hasn't this topic become interesting!

Am very interested in the various deals available.
We can get Brown Brothers range for about 38dhs per bottle here, which seems to be the best value/quality.

Does anybody know if it would be possible to group together and import directly from the wineries? I know Swedes do it with tobacco.