Nice one, found it in Waitrose last week
Martin
Thank you, the Simpson’s wine was a great success with my neighbour, what I might do is for the Christmas lunch , get a sparkling and dry white from the same winery
( I always start with sparkling wine and if there is any left, my neighbour can take it home with him)
Best wishes
Ian
Had our son and his girlfriend over yesterday for dinner, creamy chicken pesto pasta followed by cheesecake. Nyetimber to start, choice of the NZ sauvignon blanc or TWS Sicilian white with the pasta. Lovely primitivo as we needed some rich red, and then the Samos with the cheescake. All very pleasant.
Looks like a good selection Ian - we had the pink version of the Graham Beck brut MCC over the weekend. It is great value especially when Waitrose have it at 25% off. The quality of SA MCC is consistently good for an everyday fizz.
Maybe a contrast to some of the more iconic bottles usually mentioned here but just had to post.
Unusually for us we popped into our local Morrisons for some essentials. I thought I’d have a quick look at their wine offerings and noticed they do a Sablet at a very reasonable £7.50 a bottle. Knowing that Sablet is right next door to Gigondas on the west of the Dentelles de Montmirail I was sufficiently tempted to get a bottle.
Wow! A lovely, typical Vacqueyras/Gigondas wine at around a third of the price. Had to go back and get a case. Really can’t recommend this enough!
Please send us a picture @Svetty.
Two from the cheap end with Decanter’s tasting notes. £7.99each at Lidl.
Never noted a wine described as ‘brooding’ before. Perhaps drink with that screechy lady singing about Heathcliffe on the music centre.
Nice choice of a Blaufränkisch
In my humble opinion Australia’s premium Chardonnay by Giaconda Beechworth Victoria
Last bottle of the 2015 vintage , it’s magnificent I must say
Maybe you have tried it Rod on a trip down under . Price gone through the roof recently, it’s so good sod the rest I’ll drink it all
Many fond memories, but alas out of my price range now.
I do remember it being available in Oddbins way back when (maybe Oddbins Fine Wine), and I have been treated to it in Australia, although not recently…
Still in the rich malo-oak style if memory serves, and not following the pendulum to the struck-match nitrogen-starved yeast reductive smoky things which are all the rage, but to me more an exercise in wine than a pleasure giving drink.
Virginia (Willcock) at Vasse Felix in Margaret River makes some of the best slightly-better-value Chardonnays in Australia to my taste. But it maybe because she is such a fantastic person that I like her wines so much. Cheers.
Not too much oak in it these days - thank god
Yes Vass Felix WA excellent
Great wine dinner last night with Gottfried Mocke the winemaker at Boekenhoutskloof in Franschoek, who make some amazing semillon and Syrah and an occasional bottling of a BDX blend, of which the 2005 was the first. 3 barrels of cab franc and 1 each of Merlot and cab Sauvignon. 20 years post vintage and absolutely stunning. The other wines were also very good indeed.
Please please please, put a location / country in the post, how many more times can i ask?
Martin
Apologies - Franschoek is in the Cape wine lands in South Africa. The wine was poured at my local wine merchants in Cheshire, England. We can walk to/from the shop so no driving needed unless we are buying a case of wine.
Fantastic, so many thanks sir!
Martin
Beaujolais is probably my favourite everyday (not literally) red wine. A lot of the stuff you find in the supermarket is a bit bland, but this Villages wine from the Wine Society is excellent, served lightly chilled.
As we speak I’m drinking the Wine Society’s Beaujolais-Villages 2022 and at £10-50 a pop I think it is an absolute steal