What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[Barbirollians]

So did we guess right Caliban ? Must have given you enough time to order a pallet .

[Nick Armstrong]

... yes, sounds like our Caliban - "Foursquare structure ... with good fresh attack"

[vinteuil]

There are quite a few Caliban at £8.95 but not at £8.92 !

I guess the other Cotes de Bourg .

... yes, sounds like our Caliban - "Foursquare structure ... with good fresh attack"

[Barbirollians]

There are quite a few Caliban at £8.95 but not at £8.92 !

I guess the other Cotes de Bourg .

[teamsaint]

All of which reminds me of one of the best bits of advertising dressed up as news I have ever heard. A few years ago, a Tesco spokesperson was widely quoted on the national news over the Xmas hols saying that "stocks of champagne are running dangerously low"

[Nick Armstrong]

Well the 2010 Champarel is £9.95 .

Quite


My favourite 'house red' is £8.92 [clue]

[Barbirollians]

Good to know - tried it when it was first mentioned and liked it very much.

My recent 'house red' (Ch. Cros de la Barde 2010 Cotes de Bourg - £7.25 a bottle) is no longer available I see ...only 5 bottles left at Ch. Caliban

Another nice 2010 for under a tenner would be very welcome


EDIT: thanks for directing me to the WS. I have just discovered in fact that my favourite sub-£10 wine (other than the Cros de la Barde) is back in stock! Not sure I should say which it is as I don't want it to run out !! ......

Well the 2010 Champarel is £9.95 .

[Nick Armstrong]

Chateau Champarel Pecharmant back at the Wine Society I see .

Good to know - tried it when it was first mentioned and liked it very much.

My recent 'house red' (Ch. Cros de la Barde 2010 Cotes de Bourg - £7.25 a bottle) is no longer available I see ...only 5 bottles left at Ch. Caliban

Another nice 2010 for under a tenner would be very welcome

EDIT: thanks for directing me to the WS. I have just discovered in fact that my favourite sub-£10 wine (other than the Cros de la Barde) is back in stock! Not sure I should say which it is as I don't want it to run out !! ......

[Barbirollians]

Chateau Champarel Pecharmant back at the Wine Society I see .

[Belgrove]

About this time of year, vinous thoughts turn to lighter things as the days start to lengthen perceptibly. Some Gruner Veltliner from Nautilus (NZ) went down a treat last night to accompany a baked brill. Similar to a dry citrusy Riesling, but with spicy notes, best drunk young. Must get some NZ Sauvignon Blanc's to celebrate the coming of spring, their zestyness
seems somehow cleansing.

[Barbirollians]

Certainly has here - like I lot of people I know we joined in Dry January, and it's somehow more or less continued so a bit out of practice .....
I've got a bottle here about which I know not a lot, (pressie from neighbour because I tended his garden when he was on holiday) Domaine Les Fines Graves, Evelyne Janodet, Moulin a Vent 2011, should be ok with some slow-cooked shoulder of lamb I expect, might as well open it then, it's been sat in the kitchen cupboard for months.

Nice present a £14 bottle according to wine searcher . Moulin a Vent unlike most Beaujolais will keep but not perhaps in a kitchen cupboard !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

As I don't drink a lot of wine, I sometimes buy those little cheap quarter bottles in supermarkets for adding to sauces.
does this make me a bad person?

I wouldn't've thought so - more likely if you'd been wasting a good wine by making sauces out of that. (I hope this is right - because that's what I do, too! Mind you - I also buy cheap plonk to drink, too. Some very pleasant cheap pleasures to be had - but I'd like to move on from Sainsbury's Bulgarian Merlot, so I'm keeping an eye on this Thread.)

[MrGongGong]

As I don't drink a lot of wine, I sometimes buy those little cheap quarter bottles in supermarkets for adding to sauces.
does this make me a bad person?
sometimes I add them to homeopathic remedies to add a bit of taste too.

Hey careful now
I've got the franchise on homeopathic malt whisky matey

[teamsaint]

As I don't drink a lot of wine, I sometimes buy those little cheap quarter bottles in supermarkets for adding to sauces.
does this make me a bad person?
sometimes I add them to homeopathic remedies to add a bit of taste too.

Anybody else use these?

Has sobriety called on this forum ?

Certainly has here - like I lot of people I know we joined in Dry January, and it's somehow more or less continued so a bit out of practice .....
I've got a bottle here about which I know not a lot, (pressie from neighbour because I tended his garden when he was on holiday) Domaine Les Fines Graves, Evelyne Janodet, Moulin a Vent 2011, should be ok with some slow-cooked shoulder of lamb I expect, might as well open it then, it's been sat in the kitchen cupboard for months.