What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[Beef Oven!]

Good heavens I assume this is a joke . It will be wrecked .

It should be fine for a couple of years just keep it somewhere dark and cool .

Thanks, that seems much more sensible than teamsaint's suggestion. It is now safely under the stairs

[Barbirollians]

put it in the freezer, should be fine.

Good heavens I assume this is a joke . It will be wrecked .

It should be fine for a couple of years just keep it somewhere dark and cool .

[teamsaint]

Some advice please, if possible.......

Just half an hour ago a friend gave me a bottle of wine. Chablis, 2011, Union Des Viticulteurs, with a metal cap.

I shan't be opening it until July 2014, will it keep alright?

I have never had a bottle of any type of alcohol in my possession for more than 72 hours before polishing it off, so I'm stumped!!!

put it in the freezer, should be fine.

[Beef Oven!]

Some advice please, if possible.......

Just half an hour ago a friend gave me a bottle of wine. Chablis, 2011, Union Des Viticulteurs, with a metal cap.

I shan't be opening it until July 2014, will it keep alright?

I have never had a bottle of any type of alcohol in my possession for more than 72 hours before polishing it off, so I'm stumped!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

The Lady magazine.

Presumably (like Kenneth Horne reading 'Male Physique Monthly' for the 'gardening' section) you read it for the 'food and drink' section.... ?

[Nick Armstrong]

... I am glad you liked it (it is nice, isn't it?) - but neither my pedantry nor my marcheggiani friends will quite let you get away with this. It is a wine from le Marche and not from Umbria. Wrong side of the watershed...

Proper got me juices flowing whichever side of t'Pennines it's from

[vinteuil]

A delicious Umbrian white from east of Gubbio - "La Monacesca" Verdicchio di Matelica, 2010
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... I am glad you liked it (it is nice, isn't it?) - but neither my pedantry nor my marcheggiani friends will quite let you get away with this. It is a wine from le Marche and not from Umbria. Wrong side of the watershed...

[Nick Armstrong]

... I liked the latest promo from the Wine Society :

'Thank heavens for The Wine Society. An institution that keeps us impecunious connoisseurs from abject despair'
(Those were the kind words of Henry Jeffreys recently in The Lady magazine.)

Last weekend featured two WS numbers:

A delicious Umbrian white from east of Gubbio - "La Monacesca" Verdicchio di Matelica, 2010

And the house red at Caliban Towers: Château "Le Clos du Notaire", Côtes de Bourg, 2009 (also a fave of yours, do I recall, vindetable?)

The latter has just re-entered the WS list so I have obtained a further case

[vinteuil]

... I liked the latest promo from the Wine Society :

'Thank heavens for The Wine Society. An institution that keeps us impecunious connoisseurs from abject despair'
(Those were the kind words of Henry Jeffreys recently in The Lady magazine.)

Just back from hols near Spoleto Very good local wines and reasonably cheap - 4 euros a litre in the restaurants. Most whites seemed to be Grechetto and excellent too, lots of Sangiovese which was equally pleasant. Looked in Waitrose yesterday but couldn't see any Grechetto there, I imagine it would cost rather more here, modest though it is.

Grechetto is a grape, I believe often to be found (ok I googled this bit ) in Orvieto white wine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grechetto

Here's a grechetto wine from The Wine Society - sounds delicious and while rather more than 4 euros/bottle, I think it'd be worth a punt

http://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/productdetail.aspx?section=pd&pl=&pd=IT15651&pc=&prl=

[gradus]

Just back from hols near Spoleto Very good local wines and reasonably cheap - 4 euros a litre in the restaurants. Most whites seemed to be Grechetto and excellent too, lots of Sangiovese which was equally pleasant. Looked in Waitrose yesterday but couldn't see any Grechetto there, I imagine it would cost rather more here, modest though it is.

[Nick Armstrong]

he was prancing on the deck

[Barbirollians]

Barbs. I once helped a guy deliver his yacht to Bordeaux. He was something of a wine expert and as we chugged the final 20 miles up the Gironde he was prancing on the deck pointing out various famous vineyards on the left and right banks. He treated me to a great meal in Bordeaux as a thank-you and bought a bottle of Chateau Margaux costing 60 euros...and this about 20 years ago. It was very pleasant, but 60 euros-worth pleasant? As you see I'm a philistine. I have however since then, developed a tiny bit of knowledge about Muscadet, which I find the very best accompaniment to shellfish. It is the one wine I buy and bring back from French trips, and I always pick a range (Sur Lie, naturellement) from about 8 to 15 euros; and the most expensive isn't always the best.

Indeed and Waitrose;s excellent example - Le Fief Guerin - is a good illustration of the point .

I do believe that branded wines, however, are to be avoided.

[ardcarp]

Barbs. I once helped a guy deliver his yacht to Bordeaux. He was something of a wine expert and as we chugged the final 20 miles up the Gironde he was prancing on the deck pointing out various famous vineyards on the left and right banks. He treated me to a great meal in Bordeaux as a thank-you and bought a bottle of Chateau Margaux costing 60 euros...and this about 20 years ago. It was very pleasant, but 60 euros-worth pleasant? As you see I'm a philistine. I have however since then, developed a tiny bit of knowledge about Muscadet, which I find the very best accompaniment to shellfish. It is the one wine I buy and bring back from French trips, and I always pick a range (Sur Lie, naturellement) from about 8 to 15 euros; and the most expensive isn't always the best.

[Barbirollians]

To each their own ardcarp but in my experience big branded wines such as Stowells , Gallo, Blossom Hill etc are to be avoided . The spend on these wines is largely on their marketing and the wine in the bottle is a subsidiary thing.