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UK-based wine blog that focuses mainly on wines available in supermarkets and other popular merchants.
For £5, you can't do much better than this. Muscadet, aged on its lees (used, dead yeast cells), produces a light but flavourful wine.Well chilled and drunk along with food (garlic and olive oil pasta), I found it very enjoyable, much more that I e (read full article)
I frequently find that I need a Chardonnay, and I don't have any. It's not something I usually stock up on, and I really have no excuse not to do so. Some food just requires it - anything with a cream sauce, risotto, chicken, pasta carbonara, etc. (read full article)
Background context info here.After trying Viognier only a handful of times of the last couple of years, I've decided that it's a "take it or leave it" type of wine for me. I can appreciate it, but it probably won't be my first choice on the wine lis (read full article)
This was purchased at the same time and for the same reason as this was, the only difference being this wine had a Decanter World Wine Awards sliver medal sticker on it instead of a gold.Hints of dried chilli pepper on the nose and palate, along with (read full article)
We're down in Devon at the moment visiting my brother-in-law's family. We are all wine lovers, and it's turning into a ritual to visit the local Majestic whenever we get together. I had a few ideas in mind as to what to buy this time, but some othe (read full article)
I don't get Paul Mas. His wines have been the subject of praise from wine writers over the last couple of years. In fact, my very first blog post was a Paul Mas wine. I didn't like it, and I don't really like this one either.My brother in law desc (read full article)
In a previous post I mentioned that I had moved offices with work, and therefore have a few new wine merchants to try out. This wine is from Nicolas, a French-owned wine merchant that has a shop (among many) on Fleet Street.The wine is a slightly of (read full article)
I picked this red Burgundy up in supermarket in Brussels a few weeks ago. The village of Mercurey is in the southern part of Burgundy known as the Côte Chalonnaise. Two villages in particular here, Mercurey and Givry, are sources of good quality a (read full article)
The price of this has crept up significantly since the 2005 vintage, but it is still worth every penny.2007 was an exceptional vintage for Alsace, and I needed an impressive white to display the merits of white wine to a visting red-loving friend of (read full article)
I needed a Chardonnay for Spaghetti Carbonara so I just decided to try this, a generic white Burgundy that was 25% off at Waitrose.A pretty decent wine, although I wasn't bowled over by its character. A bit of white stone fruit with good acidity, it (read full article)
I've tried, and enjoyed, the 2005 vintage of this wine. The 2006 vintage has left a mostly negative impression on me. I found it thin and watery, and just generally short on character.Perhaps I've been drinking too much Aussie red lately, and am ju (read full article)
This is a pretty decent Cotes du Rhone from Louis Bernard. It is from their Chartreuse de Bonpase range, which I think is supposed to be a bit more high-end than their generic appellation wines.It has a good red-fruit nose and a nice chalky, mineral (read full article)
Here is another claret bottled for Tesco by the negociant Yvon Mau. Whenever you see a half price claret at Tesco, chances are it's a product of Yvon Mau.The wines are usually decent, if unspectacular. This is regularly around £15 from Tesco, but (read full article)
This is a very drinkable rosé from Provence. This is how I like my rosé in the summer - light, almost like a white wine with a bit of red berry fruit to it. They are also very dangerous - before I noticed I had drank over half a bottle over dinne (read full article)
I don't drink a lot of red wine these days, it being summer and all. But I made an exception tonight because we were having steak (and not just any steak, but Marks and Spencer's 21 day aged peppered rump steak). My views on steak are similar to my (read full article)
If Carlsberg made rosé...For whatever reason, this rosé has garnered the praise of the late writer Auberon Waugh. I don't really know anything about him, so I'm not going to pretend to. However his words are immortalized on the back label of this (read full article)
I made a brief mention of this wine previously while discussing its cool-fermented stablemate. It probably would be less confusing if I didn't mention the cool-fermented one, but it's easy to mistake one for the other so let's make the distinction n (read full article)
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