Wine of the Week ...

[sunny-dave]

... NoM is up to her eyeballs in work, so I've been called in from the subs bench for one week only.

Sooo - three wines for you to peruse and hopefully quaff :

Firstly from Averys of Bristol (also available via their very good home delivery service) :

A Chateauneuf-du-Pape style red - Pontificis IGP d'Oc 2010 - £7.99

http://www.averys.com...rod30107#.UIhJy--ZOGE

Just about my favourite wine this autumn for drinking with any red meat - great with a Sunday Roast, even better with Steak & Chips. Loads of strong fruity flavours and a good finish. Decant into a jug an hour or so before drinking to let the wine breathe and the flavour develop.

Secondly from my favourite supermarket :

Aldi Cremant du Jura - £6.99

http://www.aldi.co.uk...oduct_range_18782.htm

The best value fizz around. Knocks most Cava (and quite a few budget Champagnes) into a cocked hat. Lovely with salads and nibbles - but enough body to be excellent with Roast Chicken too.

Finally from Mr Tesco :

A very decent French Marsanne/Viognier

http://www.tesco.com/...94966870&id=268681709

A bargain at £5 a bottle - crisp, fresh and with plenty of my favourite 'chewy' viognier character. Great with fish - or I like it with a 'cheese and nibbles' type meal.


Happy Drinking

dave xx

[NoMercy]

I love the Cremant de Jura - a very classy fizz !

The Marsanne Viognier is a damn fine wine too. Good with Indian or Thai.

I may push the boat out this weekend and have a Zamora Californian Zinfandel. £9.99 from M&S. Excellent with steak or Lamb.

[DTCwordfan]

Am still drinking my way through my Care Temp/Merlot.....but tonight on one of my stocks, the Domaine de Mont Auriol.

Almost did a double take when one wine shop in Truro was offering Ch du Pin 2009 for £7-99 - however, this is one of these blended wines, cashing in off someone else's name. You wouldn't even get 1/4 glass of Le Pin for £7-99! Once had a neighbouring family wine (the family being Belgian, called Hoste) from an adjacent site to Le Pin (a 1961 vintage) - and which was absolutely stellar.

[237SJ]

I`m of to Cape Town at the end of the week and I`m going to treat myself to a bottle of Meerlust Rubicon to have at christmas. Their wines there are so fabulous and the South Africans definitely keep the best for their home market.

[DTCwordfan]

Bring an extra one back for us to share, SJ, don't know that wine - but then my knowledge of South Afrikaans wines is limited.

[Mick-Talbot]

Aldi is spot on. I'm necking a Rockstone Ridge Merlot ......what do think of drinking it straight from the bottle....is that ok?

[sunny-dave]

Sounds OK to me MT - saves on the washing up

http://www.aldi.co.uk...oduct_range_26447.htm

[DTCwordfan]

saves on the washing up.

[237SJ]

Will do DT. Funny thing is, I was there one time and we went out for dinner and one of the guys said he`d order the wine because his parents have a place out there and he had a lot of experience of SA wines. We had a Fleur du Cap Cabernet and it was lovely. Next day I fell off a horse and hurt my back but had ordered 3 bottles of Fleur du Cap to bring home. I struggled home with the bl00dy bottles even though I could hardly walk. I opened the wine one summer night in the garden and it was flippin awful. Rough as hell. Normally though, their wines are fabulous. Much better than the SA wine here. When you go to the supermarket they only have their own wines. The choice is amazing and they don`t need to import from anywhere else.

[Mick-Talbot]

As you can see from Daves link....it's bloody expensive ......

[sunny-dave]

Wait until next Thursday - there's usually a £5 off (£35 spend) coupon in the Daily Mirror on the last Thursday of each month. Drops it down by 60p a bottle if you buy a few ...

[Mick-Talbot]

I'm getting a very continental flavour from this stuff.

[sunny-dave]

Bonjour Matelot ....

[Mick-Talbot]

Tha wat lad?

I mean .......it tastes like a well worn tyre

[DTCwordfan]

Rofl here, Monsieur Matelot. Priceless.

[Mick-Talbot]

I'm gonna be really suffocated and have a relaxing bath with a bottle of
Stamp Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon Miniature for company.

how the uvver arf live eh?



psst...4 for a fiver.

http://groceries.asda...rrer=cookiesDetecting

[Mick-Talbot]

well it was a full bodied and irresistible reservoir of timorous musky oakiness
a definite aroma of lilies but with a sickly-sweet nutty after taste that draws you subliminally into its jaws.






Now that's enough about the bath water....would anyone like to hear about the wine?

[China Doll]

I've got a hardys carbernet shiraz... s'alright. It's better than one I had last week that tasted like Mick's bath water which was donated for cooking wine. The yellow tail shiraz is my favourite at the moment.

[NoMercy]

The Yellow Tail range is superb, China. Have you tried the Cab Sauv and the Merlot?

[China Doll]

Yep, I like the merlot, haven't tried the cab sauv though, what's that sort of sweet/choclatey/vanilary thing the yellow tail has going on? I like that and want more wines with that flavour in. I have gone back to red as is cold now, I'm thinking more and more I don't like that blackberry/peppery type flavour (no idea what else to call it), last week I had a stamford brook merlot and that's the one I gave over as cooking wine, didn't enjoy it at all.