What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[cloughie]

Has anyone tried 2017 Beauj Nouv? I picked up a bottle in Waitrose which will accompany a cassoulet today. What a difference 30 or so years makes. Thenabouts it was stacked up in all wine outlets nowadays harder to source - I always looked forward to it as a celebration to brighten up the shortening daylight of November days! Not fine wine but the best of it was fruity and cheerful.

[Barbirollians]

Only? I'd say that's a good average. The Coop had one at 15% - Lirac, I think - and that's practically fortified wine strength!

That's the point all too difficult to find red wine under 13 degrees nowadays - so many New World fruit bombs about . Lirac is close to Chateauneuf du Paps and is principally Grenache which does tend to produce high alcohol wines in hot areas like the Southern Rhone .

Californian Syrah -Bellingham. A surprise.

[teamsaint]

So it is.

My mistake - I take full responsibility.

Thats a very , er, responsible response, Lat.

Shame about that house though, TBF.

[Lat-Literal]

that's Brown Windsor soup you're thinking of there, Lat.

So it is.

My mistake - I take full responsibility.

[teamsaint]

There is a good walk incorporating Denbies Wine Estate.

However, just as some exotic wine contains actual gold - our South African neighbours offered some; I declined - I can wonder whether the Dorking stuff has traces of lego brick:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8269479.stm

that's Brown Windsor soup you're thinking of there, Lat.

[Lat-Literal]

Nothing if not adventurous: I picked up (and subsequently bought) a wine called Limestone Rise, wondering vaguely if it came from the same stable as Blossom Hill, in which case it should have been with the New World wines but wasn't. This was in fact the first English wine I've ever seen in the Coop, and the main impulse to buy was that it came from the here recently discussed Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, home of the Surrey Performing Arts Library.

Just found these comments.

It was 2015, £7.99 and a Coop wine (so 40p on my account towards the next purchase); and 11% ABV. My impression is that English wines are expensive (relatively), lowish in alcohol but rather tasty. This is a racy, fragrant one. It says here.

Anyway, the 40p is banked and may go toward a delicious-looking 1/2 bottle of Sauternes dessert wine (can't remember the name - began with R, I think) which makes the Lamothe-Bergeron look cheap i.e. the 1/2 bottle about the same price as the whole bottle of Bordeaux red. Happy days!

There is a good walk incorporating Denbies Wine Estate.

However, just as some exotic wine contains actual gold - our South African neighbours offered some; I declined - I can wonder whether the Dorking stuff has traces of lego brick:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8269479.stm

[french frank]

only 12.5 degrees alcohol

Only? I'd say that's a good average. The Coop had one at 15% - Lirac, I think - and that's practically fortified wine strength!

[Barbirollians]

Beaujolais Villages 2016 Trenel from the Wine Society £8.50 - only 12.5 degrees alcohol lots of cherry fruit and no hint of banana or sweetness .

[french frank]

Nothing if not adventurous: I picked up (and subsequently bought) a wine called Limestone Rise, wondering vaguely if it came from the same stable as Blossom Hill, in which case it should have been with the New World wines but wasn't. This was in fact the first English wine I've ever seen in the Coop, and the main impulse to buy was that it came from the here recently discussed Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, home of the Surrey Performing Arts Library.

Just found these comments.

It was 2015, £7.99 and a Coop wine (so 40p on my account towards the next purchase); and 11% ABV. My impression is that English wines are expensive (relatively), lowish in alcohol but rather tasty. This is a racy, fragrant one. It says here.

Anyway, the 40p is banked and may go toward a delicious-looking 1/2 bottle of Sauternes dessert wine (can't remember the name - began with R, I think) which makes the Lamothe-Bergeron look cheap i.e. the 1/2 bottle about the same price as the whole bottle of Bordeaux red. Happy days!

[french frank]

Well you could always treat yourself tomorrow and splash out on another for Christmas if you can save enough points ! cellartracker suggests best between 2015-2022

Perfect I think I'd do well to snap up their stock, with or without my member's discount.

[Barbirollians]

Oh, I was going to have it with my nut roast tomorrow I can't remember which website it was said that it would be at its best between 2011(?) and 2018. The Coop was flogging it for £14 while the other place was asking £20.

[I picked up 5p from the floor, which reduced the price from 50p to 45p, then dang me, I dropped 20p under the chiller cabinet, which sent it sky-rocketing to 65p]

Well you could always treat yourself tomorrow and splash out on another for Christmas if you can save enough points ! cellartracker suggests best between 2015-2022

[french frank]

I think it will be fine for a few years yet - a good bottle will probably be perfect at Christmas .

Oh, I was going to have it with my nut roast tomorrow I can't remember which website it was said that it would be at its best between 2011(?) and 2018. The Coop was flogging it for £14 while the other place was asking £20.

[I picked up 5p from the floor, which reduced the price from 50p to 45p, then dang me, I dropped 20p under the chiller cabinet, which sent it sky-rocketing to 65p]

[Barbirollians]

I have just blown my entire Coop Balance on this. Quite a bit cheaper than the mysommelier website (even without the Coop bonus discount), possibly because it will be passing its best in a couple of years. Cost me about 50p.

I think it will be fine for a few years yet - a good bottle will probably be perfect at Christmas .

[french frank]

I have just blown my entire Coop Balance on this. Quite a bit cheaper than the mysommelier website (even without the Coop bonus discount), possibly because it will be passing its best in a couple of years. Cost me about 50p.