Orang Utan said:
It's a nice table wine, nothing fancy. There's too types, one is slightly more expensive (£3.99) but nicer. La Chasse du Pape is around a fiver.
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It's a nice table wine, nothing fancy. There's too types, one is slightly more expensive (£3.99) but nicer. La Chasse du Pape is around a fiver.
I'm a big new world fan, the French are woefully behind on consistency, marketing and to some extent technique. Italians and Spanish a bit more sussed but occasionally iffy, some real E Europe bargains to be had but also some shockers.
Massive Aussie Shiraz drinker, which will give all the body and chocolate you could wish for, but I avoid the major producers on the whole. That said Penfolds and Wolf Blass are always consistent.
CNdP is for special occasions or flash fuckers with too much disposable.
Also rather partial to a Cali Zinfandel, Fetzer's is nice for about £6.50, and a Cape Pinotage is usually about half to a third of the price of a French Pinot Noir of similar quailty.
Massive Aussie Shiraz drinker, which will give all the body and chocolate you could wish for, but I avoid the major producers on the whole. That said Penfolds and Wolf Blass are always consistent.
CNdP is for special occasions or flash fuckers with too much disposable.
Also rather partial to a Cali Zinfandel, Fetzer's is nice for about £6.50, and a Cape Pinotage is usually about half to a third of the price of a French Pinot Noir of similar quailty.
dirtysanta
Original Casual
i do like a Rioja. Faustino Rioja's are fucking lush.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I like Chianti Mellini
felixthecat
are we there yet?
dirtysanta said:
Agree with that. One of my favourites
northernhord
Active Member
Nice bottle of full bodied over strength 14% something or other from Asda, prb shiraz cab
northernhord
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Orang Utan said:
Yeah mon, shame about the Lofty price tags on yer French grape, they need to smell the coffee innit
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
We drink a lot of wine from Languedoc-Roussillon in this house. I like French wine the best, and you get a lot of bang for your buck with this region (especially if you buy it in France).
I also like Cotes du Rhone and Burgundy (pricey, though). Rioja is also good, and I've had some nice Italian reds, but only in Italy following recommendations from waiters, and I can't for the life of me remember what any of them are.
I also like Cotes du Rhone and Burgundy (pricey, though). Rioja is also good, and I've had some nice Italian reds, but only in Italy following recommendations from waiters, and I can't for the life of me remember what any of them are.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
I wish I could remember the names of wines, I stand at the wine section in Tescos scratching my melon as to what that last one I had that was nice is called and always end up going for the one with the least bottles left, just cos if its popular it must be nice right?
Never is
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pembrokestephen
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This is a very nice one (clickable image)...Ms T said:
...and is great fun to order in restaurants
. It's pretty much as good as a Barolo, but rather cheaper.BlackSpecs
The DogFather
twisted_angel said:i cant drink red wine it always tastes like vinegar
... my girl-friend says it tastes of BLOOD ! she won't have any of it AND she is french!!!!
.... crazy girls! 
pembrokestephen
New Member
If you drink a lot of wine (and don't live 300 miles from Dover like me), it's well worth going over to France. We've been drinking an absolutely bloody lovely Cahors, which we paid €2.70 for (about two quid). If they'd have enough of it, and we'd had room in the car, I'd have happily brought six months' supply back, the difference in price being easily enough to cover at least the cost of the ferry journey.chio said:I just get jealous of the people who go on about how great buying wine in France is, "oh we just pop over there once or twice a year".
But then, the bloke who has the shop across the road does it and we get the benefit anyway
The sort of wine you'd get over here for two quid would be unlikely to be drinkable - and this stuff was...well, from the taste of it, I'd have been expecting to pay £6-8/bottle for it over here, and it retails in the US for $13.
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the d'arenberg one is about 8-9 quid but well worth splashing outEastEnder said:
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arenicola marina
I like the seasonal spiced Gluhwein on sale at Lidl atm for £2.99 a litre. Good for hot toddies at this time of year.
northernhoard said:
depends on whether you want ethanol or wine....
prunus
Tick tock.
Shirl said:I like very dry wine but I want rich and fruity with a hint of chocolate, if anyone has any recomendations, they'd be welcome.
Try this:
http://www.waitrosewine.com/Fine+Wine/Fine+Wine/Fine+Wine/Red+Wine/1915/230211198/Product.aspx
you'll probably love it
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I like to buy the wine with the spray-on dust on the bottle
(not really, I'm strictly a four-for-a-tenner man)
(not really, I'm strictly a four-for-a-tenner man)
