spongebob59
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My favourite is Apothic Red. Californian wine, absolute beauty
On offer at the local Sainsbury's ?
My favourite is Apothic Red. Californian wine, absolute beauty
This is a potential minefield, bit like telling someone to buy a Sim2 driver cos mine is awesome. As stated it is so subjective. I could list dozens of reds that I like but you might think are crap. I suggest you find your local Majestic and pop in for a chat, they have a few sample bottles open you can try.
FWIW, I like bold reds similar to the zinfandel/primitivos (same grape) listed above. If that is your taste try The Guv'nor or any of the Portuguese reds from the Douro region made from the touriga nacional grape.
One of the Portuguese reds I recommended above, good value in Majestic ?Porta 6. Tesco has it now. £7.50.
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?Barolo. You will get a decent bottle in one of the supermarkets for around £15. Light years ahead of the cheap and cheerful stuff posted above.
Do you favour a flat base or cavity base bottle?After a 14 month sabbatical from drinking wine (red) I'm after suggestions for a nice bottle of smooth red to have Xmas day.
Prefer something from supermarket that I can get easily but the thread may evolve as people add suggestions.
Over to you ?
Do you favour a flat base or cavity base bottle?
What colour do you like the glass of the bottle to be?
Long neck or short neck?
Cork or metal cap?
What degree of alcohol strength?
You've been out of the game for quite a while.
You are a bit short of time to make a well informed decision before Xmas Day.
You need a fitting and plenty of practice games.
Maybe "borrow" someone else's bottles for Xmas Day just to see how you get on.
Now here’s one for the wine folk. I to will be having a red ( Barolo) with my Turkey and Gammon Xmas day. But the purists will be saying white wine with white meat. It always seems to be wine follows food. Me I don’t subscribe to that.
Thoughts me dears
On offer at the local Sainsbury's ?
Both Turkey and Gammon have enough 'gutsiness' to handle most reds even if slightly 'mis-matched'. I'm not a huge fan of Barolo, mainly on vfm, but Xmas is when that consideration is to be ignored! The simple solution when selected food and selected wine 'clash' is to have them separately - having a likely more appropriate wine available as backup 'just in case'!Now here’s one for the wine folk. I to will be having a red ( Barolo) with my Turkey and Gammon Xmas day. But the purists will be saying white wine with white meat. It always seems to be wine follows food. Me I don’t subscribe to that.
Thoughts me dears
I used the drink the Apothic Red, but I believe it’s had sugar added and have not had any since I realised this.I've got a couple of bottles of Apothic in the rack... very good indeed. The former chief of the Royal Marine Commandos put me on to it! He knows his vino too!
A nice Chateauneuf-du-Pape used to always go down well ( so well that one became two, became three, even four BUT was diluted by nice white Sancerre or two)After a 14 month sabbatical from drinking wine (red) I'm after suggestions for a nice bottle of smooth red to have Xmas day.
Prefer something from supermarket that I can get easily but the thread may evolve as people add suggestions.
Over to you ?
Actually most sommeliers would be looking at the entire dish, not just the meat.Now here’s one for the wine folk. I to will be having a red ( Barolo) with my Turkey and Gammon Xmas day. But the purists will be saying white wine with white meat. It always seems to be wine follows food. Me I don’t subscribe to that.
Thoughts me dears
I used to 'put my name down' queue for some of this at a local Wine shop every year many years ago. Was 'outstanding' at the time, but a bit inconsistent (well, 'different taste') year by year and better priced alternatives arrived, so it fell off my list of 'targets'. Still about the same price as it was back then, freely available and likely similar quality, a good shout.The Chocolate Block. It’s a South African job, but very smooth. Usually found in Waitrose, or Costco if you have access.
Generalisation Alert!...Any Chilean or Argentinian Malbec.
What a load of rubbish.Generalisation Alert!...
If it's Chilean, stick to Cab Sauv or Merlot (particularly). For Argentinian Malbec (particularly) or Cab Sauv. Chilean Cab Sauv tends to be better (at least, more to my taste) than Argentinian but there's a few 'stars' at relatively great prices in both!