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Mercurey 2014
I am a bit of a knave. I buy my wife a present of wine, then I help her drink it, then I write a review about it!
I was rather impressed with Tescos new strategy of getting high class wineries to produce wines for their own label “Finest” range and then clearly labelling it with the producers name on the label and collar. I think that they are trying to merge two markets – those who want a good…
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Lindeman's Bin 50 2016
Lindeman’s Bin 50 2016
We’re back to South Eastern Australia for this one, and it is an old favourite. It was bought from Tesco but it is widely available in the U.K. As new world wines go, this one has to feature on most lists of go to wines at a reasonable price because of it’s consistent quality – you definitely know what you are going to get up front, whatever the vintage. They take the grapes from a variety of…
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Campo Viejo Gran Reserva 2010.
Campo Viejo Gran Reserva 2010.
This has to be one of the grand Marques of supermarket wine. It is the grandest of the four Campo Viejo wines generally available. At the bottom of the range are the Yellow Label wines of which there are two. One, a Grenache in a “Burgundy” style bottle and the other in a “Bordeaux” style bottle which is a Tempranillo. The next stage up is the orange bottle which is the Reserva – you might…
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I'm back...
I’m back…
I am sorry about he absence but I got distracted! I started out writing this blog to highlight some of the great, good and indifferent wines that were available in the U.K. supermarkets and then I went to France en-vacance; Normandy to be precise, but it meant that I could take my car and top up the “cellar”from their supermarkets instead. There was no point writing about the wines that I got…
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Penfolds Koonunga Hill 2016.
Penfolds Koonunga Hill 2016.
I got myself a bargain here and I am not sure why, but when I bought this one about three weeks ago, Tesco was selling it at about a fiver – to clear! I am pretty sure that they are still selling it but it is usually about £9.00/bottle and that is not overpriced.
Penfolds say that it is good to drink now (which it certainly is) or anything up to 2023.
“Origin: Multi-regional blend, South…
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Saint-Émilion, Message in a Bottle A very interesting account of how St. Emilion, one of my favourite places in France and amongst my favourite wines, came about; it's history and what makes it great today.
Kauri Tree Hawkes Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2014.
Kauri Tree Hawkes Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2014.
It’s summer and you fancy something light, crisp and citrus to go with your seafood salad on a hot day, what better than a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc from Hawkes bay. This is exactly what I was thinking when I picked up this Kauri Tree Sauvignon Blanc 2014 from Sainsbury. Not only that but at 12% alcohol it is relatively light on alcohol too. I really like New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc so I was…
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Château Simard Saint Emilion 1996
Château Simard Saint Emilion 1996
My choice of this wine was influenced by several factors:-
I have never had a twenty year old wine before.
I have visited 11th Century village of Saint Emilion on several occasions and fell in love with the place. I have probably walked past the vineyard where this wine originates without knowing (I am lead to believe that it is fairly near the centre of St. Emilion.
I already love St.Emilion…
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Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2016 Shortlist The Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards short lists 2016 brought to you by Effi Tsournava - The Wine sinner. Effi writes a fantastic blog mostly about Greek wines.
La Châsse Côtes du Rhône Reserve 2014.
La Châsse Côtes du Rhône Reserve 2014.
I mentioned before that for a while I was “off” Cotes Du Rhône, well that was a while ago and now I am quite keen on the stuff. I was wandering around the wine aisles at Sainsbury recently when I came across this one; I have bought one or more bottles of it before, so I knew that it would be a “winner” but I had never bought it with a review in mind – until now:-
La Châsse Côtes du Rhône Reserve.
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Food goes with Wine but which food and which wine? The eternal question - you are throwing a dinner party or it might be a special occasion and you want to make it
Cuvée Prestige Vin de France.
Cuvée Prestige Vin de France.
This sort of wine doesn’t usually get a review I would imagine as it would normally fall below the radar; regarded as not worthy, but I think that it deserves a mention. I think that wines should suit the occasion and the occasion that this wine suits is when you want something ordinary and low(ish) in alcohol “on a school night” – this is a wine for occasions when there is no special occasion.…
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Peter Lehmann Portrait Dry Riesling 2015.
Peter Lehmann Portrait Dry Riesling 2015.
I must have known that we were going to be in for some hot weather – it has been uncommonly warm here with temperatures reaching up to 35 degrees Celsius in some parts of Britain because when seeking to find a suitably refreshing wine, I remembered that I had bought this Peter Lehmann Portrait Dry Riesling 2015 on that now well documented trip to Majestic:-
I have experienced an earlier vintage…
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Beyerskloof Pinotage 2015.
I reviewed a South African Pinotage a little while ago, that was a very different, exciting and yet polarising wine (I didn’t think that everyone would like it – I loved it) and I was rather hoping for a similar experience with this one – same grape, same country, same price band. While this wine was very pleasant and almost certainly a better known brand for South African wines including…
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The Parcel series Old Vine Zinfandel
The Parcel series Old Vine Zinfandel
Zinfandel is an interesting grape – also known as Primitivo, it is a variety of black-skinned wine grape. The variety is grown in over 10 percent of Californian Vineyards. DNA analysis has revealed that it is genetically equivalent to the Croatian grapes Crljenak Kaštelanski and Tribidrag, as well as to the Primitivo variety traditionally grown in Apulia (the “heel” of Italy), where it was…
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Famille Perrin Côtes du Rhône 2013
Famille Perrin Côtes du Rhône 2013
Côtes du Rhône has become synonymous with holidays in the French Region of Provence – ever since we holidayed (vacation) there a few years ago. I had tried it some years ago and hadn’t really liked it – the stuff that the supermarket had been importing at the time (maybe ten years ago) was quite harsh and unpalatable in my opinion so I didn’t bother with Côtes du Rhône for a while. On that…
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The Elms Shiraz - Yering Station.
The Elms Shiraz – Yering Station.
I do like a nice Australian Shiraz, and this one caught my eye on my recent trip to Majestic. (I had also mistaken it for “Yarra Yering” which I had read about in one of Oz Clark’s books some years ago and thought – that must be alright – I’m only human!). I had made a mistake, but I wasn’t disappointed:-
We opened this one on the 8th of July.
Yering Station (Yarra Valley) 2013 The Elms.
Price:…
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