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In vino veritas - what wine are you drinking?
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06-01-2018 7:05pm#1Im hoping we can get a new thread going in here, sharing the good bottles of wine we’ve been drinking.
I recently enjoyed this Kanu barrel-fermented Chardonnay from the Stellenbosch, purchased from Curious Wines, on sale for €14.99. Fairly full-bodied with tropical fruits.
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Last night’s bottle was an unusual blend of Moscatel & Chardonnay from Goru, a Spanish wine producer in Jumilla. I love their red wines, which are consistent crowd pleasers. This white had floral notes coming from the Moscatel with body from the Chardonnay. Would be a great summer wine.
Purchased from Curious Wines for €13.99
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Agree with you, it’s challenging these days to find good interesting wines in the sub €15 range. I like the look of that Minervois and will pick up a bottle next time I’m in DF. We spent a long weekend in the Languedoc this summer and there are some really innovative wines coming out now.
If you like that style, and I do, that area provides some great wines. A good Corbières - not the rough local stuff! - can be a serious bargain. But you know that already!
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Can't believe we didn't have one of these threads already and can't believe I never thought of starting one
From Eslisabetta Foradori mostly known for top notch Teroldego
Massive fruit bang probably too much for some peoples taste but I love it.
FONTANASANTA MANZONI BIANCO
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Can't believe we didn't have one of these threads already and can't believe I never thought of starting one
From Eslisabetta Foradori mostly known for top notch Teroldego
Massive fruit bang probably too much for some peoples taste but I love it.
FONTANASANTA MANZONI BIANCO
She is an amazing wine maker and an amazing woman. I loved this one. About €24 but worth it for the right occasion.
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One of my favorite Montepulciano's. This used to be available in curious wines but I believe for one reason or another they've stopped working with the vineyard/Disty.
You can still get it from https://www.kwmwine.com up north at about 15-16e delivered
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Tonight was a Malbec from Cedre Heritage in Cahors, France. I can't remember where I purchased it (possibly either the Corkscrew or Donnybrook Fair). Lovely dark purple colour, lots of black fruit and a nice touch of spice and oak. Very pleasant.
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Saturday night's bottle. Bit of an ad-hoc purchase from the boot Italian shop in Cork It's more of an Italian food shop but they stock a few bottles of Italian wine.
I love a good ripasso(a) but I haven't found many nice ones at a decent price and this was no different. There was some nice baked dark fruits but it was a bit too acidic for my taste maybe another half an hour in the decanter might have took the edge of it. At 19e a bottle I'd give it a wide birth.
If anyone has any recommendations I'd love to hear them
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As a present I was given a bottle of Irish wine. I didn't realise we had vineyards here! This was a rather expensive present from the Celtic Whiskey shop I gather. It was an ideal gift, something I would love to try but would not buy for myself.
The wine is called Lusca, and it is a red wine in a Bordeaux style.
It's nice, but I would say a bit inconsistent in flavour, would be eclipsed by a good Grand Vin de Bordeaux ... I have left a glass for tomorrow to see if there is any difference in flavour.
More information on Irish wines here:
http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-wine-2351581-Sep2015/"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)
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Last night we drank Taoz Reserva Coupage 2013 from Somontano, Spain. Again this was from Curious Wines, usually €15 per bottle. This is a blend of Cabarnet Sauvignon, Melia and Syrah aged in French oak for 14 months. It’s smoothly rich, with notes of chocolate and black fruits.
I like this one a lot, I’ll always pick up a few bottles whenever I’m in Curious Wines. It’s one I always know I’ll enjoy.
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Enjoyed a firm house favourite last night - Von Winning Win Win Riesling from The Corkscrew €21.95. I usually buy several bottles of this at a go, as I really like to know that I have a reliable, enjoyable wine on the racks.
This is a truly glorious Riesling - it's crisp and lemony, ever so slightly effervescent but also has a touch of honey mellowness.
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Aldi had bottles of Recioto di Soave and Recioto della Valpolicella in over Christmas. For those of you not familiar with it, Recioto is an Italian sweet wine where grapes are allowed to partially dry before wine making. Recioto comes from around the Verona / Lake Garda region.
I hadn’t been overly impressed with the Soave, but I opened the bottle of Valpolicella last night to go with some cheese, and I really liked it. It’s not lusciously sweet but pretty nice. I think Aldi still have it on sale in some shops, but reduced now to €8 (IIRC).
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Aldi had bottles of Recioto di Soave and Recioto della Valpolicella in over Christmas. For those of you not familiar with it, Recioto is an Italian sweet wine where grapes are allowed to partially dry before wine making. Recioto comes from around the Verona / Lake Garda region.
I hadn’t been overly impressed with the Soave, but I opened the bottle of Valpolicella last night to go with some cheese, and I really liked it. It’s not lusciously sweet but pretty nice. I think Aldi still have it on sale in some shops, but reduced now to €8 (IIRC).
Purchased before xmas for after dinner but it never got opened in the end.
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We were out for dinner last night in Locks, Portobello. They have a great selection of Portuguese wines (several Portuguese members of staff) and I ordered Quinta do Cidrô Chardonnay, from the Duoro. According to the website “it is fermented and aged in french oak barriques under the process of batonage with lees. It reveals a beautiful golden colour and a complexity of tropical fruit aromas with smokey oak nuances of toast”
My verdict: very reminiscent of a quality Burgundy, at easily half the price. Lovely finish of toasted hazelnuts and good texture.
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anthony4335 wrote: »It can be very hard to find a nice Ripasso, nicest I have found in Ireland is a Villa erbice in the winebuff, but it is a little pricey at 28 euro. I really would suggest the valpolicello from the wine buff and decant it for a couple of hours better value and it is one of my go to wines.
http://www.thewinebuff.com/italian-red-wine-erbice-valpolicello
Picked it up today and it's in the decanter
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anthony4335 wrote: »It can be very hard to find a nice Ripasso, nicest I have found in Ireland is a Villa erbice in the winebuff, but it is a little pricey at 28 euro. I really would suggest the valpolicello from the wine buff and decant it for a couple of hours better value and it is one of my go to wines.
http://www.thewinebuff.com/italian-red-wine-erbice-valpolicello
Thanks for the tip on this I really enjoyed it. Decanted for aprox 2 hours and had with a nice bit of beef from the English market. Probably won't be having it often at 28e though. I'd love to find one drinkable at around 10e the hunt goes on 0 -
Ripasso involves making wine with partially dried grapes. Given that there is a bit of extra Labour required in its manufacture, it will be hard to get a good one around €10. Good wine around €10 is hard enough.
Because it’s going to be cold tonight, I’ve just picked up a bottle of Ravenswood Old Vine Lodi Zinfandel at Donnybrook Fair (c€23, which I think is pricey as I’ve bought this before for €18). Love this wine, lots of dark fruit, chocolate & spice.
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Marechal Gevrey Chambertin, Red Burgundy (Pinot Noir)... got it as a present, think it was in the LIDl Chirstmas specials.
A lovely wine, perfectly described below by Matthew Nugent in The Sun.
That said, I think there are even nicer pinot noirs out there more readily available at similar prices or cheaper e.g. Innocent Bystander Pinot Noir, some of the Californians in O'Briens. To continue the pinot review, I was disappointed with the Underwood from Oregon available in M&S.
In hindsight, it would have been the ideal wine for mid afternoon Christmas dinner of turkey and ham!
"Intense liquorice and cherry nose with a strawberry and raspberry palate and nice minerality. Light, yet complex with good length."
"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)
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They have run that before but my local SV in D3 had none ... we look fwd to the reviews!
French wine for the most part never really grabbed me. Saying thatI've not tasted much of it and know little about it. I'm also not exactly sure why.
I think it's partly down to been not able to find relativity cheapish good French wine. The odds always seem far greater when choosing a French wine. Where it's relatively easy to find great Italian/Spanish/Portuguese reasonably priced wines. This could all be in my head but it's there none the less.
Also looking forward to the reviews of this and more French wine here as I always feel I'm missing out on so much and need to venture out and try more.
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I think it's partly down to been not able to find relativity cheapish good French wine. The odds always seem far greater when choosing a French wine. Where it's relatively easy to find great Italian/Spanish/Portuguese reasonably priced wines. This could all be in my head but it's there none the less.
If you're looking at under 10 euros, then yes usally better value futher south.
At around 15 euros you can start to pick up some lovely French reds.
Usually in France there's better value in the regions of the South (Rhone) and South West (Languedoc, Roussillon) than the more famous regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy.
I am a big fan of the Guigal Cotes du Rhone, think it's about €16 in Supervalu and off licences. LIDL have a 'rustic' Cotes du Rhone for just over €6 that is a bit rough around the edges but certainly packs a punch.
Both would be ideal 'winter warmers'
Keep an eye out for Supervalu's "Rare Vineyards" and "La Petite Perriere" labels which are often on offer for just under €10.
ps I'm talking reds here btw, French whites are a whole other story
This is the LIDL one:
"To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)
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I am a big fan of the Guigal Cotes du Rhone, think it's about €16 in Supervalu and off licences. LIDL have a 'rustic' Cotes du Rhone for just over €6 that is a bit rough around the edges but certainly packs a punch.
Both would be ideal 'winter warmers'
I think I've seen you mention the Guigal before as i have it marked down to buy and try. Was it yourself that had it for xmas dinner?ps I'm talking reds here btw, French whites are a whole other story
I'd say 90% of my wine drinking is red.
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I tend to love the reds from the Rhone valley, north and south. We were at the match today, and afterwards, we stopped at The French Paradox for a glass of wine. We ended up ordering a bottle of this Domaine Saint Pierre Vacqueyras 2014 for ~€42.
Vacqueyras is from the southern Rhone and is probably one of my favourite AOCs from that region.
Lovely, easy drinking red, perhaps a bit on the lighter side. Definite cherries, and berry fruit. Silky, lovely texture. This one is 60% Grenache, 40% Syrah.
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French wine for the most part never really grabbed me. Saying thatI've not tasted much of it and know little about it. I'm also not exactly sure why.
I think it's partly down to been not able to find relativity cheapish good French wine. The odds always seem far greater when choosing a French wine. Where it's relatively easy to find great Italian/Spanish/Portuguese reasonably priced wines. This could all be in my head but it's there none the less.
Also looking forward to the reviews of this and more French wine here as I always feel I'm missing out on so much and need to venture out and try more.
Also any recommendations on good places to start/bottles to try would be welcomed
French wine never really caught my interest when I was "younger". Other regions appealed to me because they simply tasted better. However, over time, and especially as I studied for my WSET Level 2 and Level 3, I learned (and tasted) more and more about French wine. I think everyone has a "lightbulb" wine moment, when you taste one that makes you think "this is what all the fuss is about". For me, that lightbulb wine was a white Burgundy from Puligny-Montrachet. I just went....mmmm.
France is one of the homes of winemaking and understanding French wines (to any degree) will greatly help you appreciate wines and winemaking in any other country.0 -
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