SHOPPERS can save big on a new Aldi dupe – and it can replace a favorite drink that has recently disappeared from the shelves.
The discounter sells a coffee liqueur tequila for a bargain price.
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Last year XO Cafe pattern has been discontinued leaving fans of the coffee-soaked tequila robbed.
Bacardi, the company that made the drink, said it was dumping the drink to focus on its “core super and ultra-premium tequilas.”
The drink combines Patrón tequila and Arabica coffee. It is popular over ice, chilled in a shot or mixed into a cocktail.
A 70cl bottle costs around £30, but prices have skyrocketed as bottles are harder to find, and you will no longer find it on convenience store planks.
For example, the drink is on sale on Amazon at an eye-watering price of £97.99 – almost three times the price.
utilities aldicThe drink’s dupe could fill the coffee-tequila-shaped hole – and save you some money.
The 70cl bottle of El Toro Coffee Liqueur Tequila is just £15.99.
That’s half the price of Coffee Patron’s original retail cost, over 80% off its current higher price tag.
The Aldi Specialbuy will hit stores on August 21.
You can’t order a bottle online from Aldi’s home delivery website, but you can do it for click and pick up as a store near you offers this service..
You can find your nearest Aldi using the store finder tool.
It’s not the only drink Aldi has launched that resembles more expensive branded bottles.
The budget supermarket has been before copycat version of Pimms.
And his Irish cream compares favorably to Baileys in the sun taste tests – and is almost half the price.
But Aldi caused and alarmed after making its own glitter snow globe gin.
Marks and Spencer, who first made the drink slash decoration, sued the store, claim that Aldi copied the design.
The chic store also took action Aldi’s Colin the caterpillar dupe, Cuthbert.