What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[Beef Oven!]

Get ready for some cheap bottles of Moldovan wine coming our way. The Russians don't want it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24061556

[Belgrove]

Some splendid Australian wines were had at Lord's last week, but the best by some margin was a 2004 Warramate Pinot Noir from the Yarra Valley. More sweet blackcurrent rather than the cherry fruit one associates with this grape variety. Silky smooth with a sophisticated hint of the farmer's welly...

This is actually good value wine in Australia, but ruinously expensive to bring over to the UK. If the opportunity ever arises to sample the wines of this excellent family run vineyard, do not hesitate.

[jean]

...Not seen any Spanish Sauternes recently though...

'This is the sort of stuff we used to make,' Miguel Torres told me as he picked up a dusty bottle of Spanish 'Sauternes' from the Fifties. Señor Torres is not given to expressions of strong emotion, but he winced as he did so. In fact, he looked like he was handling a dead rat...

[cloughie]

Thank you for all the help & advice.


When I was very young, we used to drink Spanish Sauternes because it was cheap. Then we discovered that sweet wine was naff and we were ashamed.

But I have decided to come clean - I like sweet wine, though obviously only when it's of high quality and drunk in the right circumstances.

Indeed so 6s 6d per bottle - Christmas-time - think it was my introduction to wine - then my tastes evolved - now enjoy sweet wine, as you say in the right circumstances - particularly like muscats. Not seen any Spanish Sauternes recently though - I wonder what they call it?

Thank you for all the help & advice.


When I was very young, we used to drink Spanish Sauternes because it was cheap. Then we discovered that sweet wine was naff and we were ashamed.

But I have decided to come clean - I like sweet wine, though obviously only when it's of high quality and drunk in the right circumstances.

Join the club, jean

[Barbirollians]

The Pierre Bise one is exceptionally good if pricey .

Waitrose sells the very good Domaine des Forges 50cl for £8.29

[jean]

Thank you for all the help & advice.

As you see made from Chenin Blanc grapes and usually on the sweet side...

When I was very young, we used to drink Spanish Sauternes because it was cheap. Then we discovered that sweet wine was naff and we were ashamed.

But I have decided to come clean - I like sweet wine, though obviously only when it's of high quality and drunk in the right circumstances.

These were a real discovery on a week's wine-tasting tour in the Loire region, which my best mate and I went on in the early 90s. Really honeyed taste - can be delicious, although some makers put quite a lot of sulphur in which makes me sneeze

Four kinds available from this excellent outfit: http://www.seckfordwines.co.uk/wine-...0&cmdSubmit=Go

Lovely stuff, Caliban - some rather enticingly elderly examples there, at a price

[Nick Armstrong]

I have just been drinking some Coteaux du Layon which tastes nearly as good as the glass I bought from a roadside bar on a cycle ride from Gennes to Saumur last month on the day that they closed all the roads to cars for the Anjou bike festival.

I'd never heard of it before, and I've never seen it over here. Where can I get some more?

These were a real discovery on a week's wine-tasting tour in the Loire region, which my best mate and I went on in the early 90s. Really honeyed taste - can be delicious, although some makers put quite a lot of sulphur in which makes me sneeze

Four kinds available from this excellent outfit: http://www.seckfordwines.co.uk/wine-...0&cmdSubmit=Go

[cloughie]

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

As you see made from Chenin Blanc grapes and usually on the sweet side but I am sure that many years ago I bought some in the area which was off-dry. Vouvray from nearby is not dissimilar to Coteaux du Layon and possibly more available in UK.

I have just been drinking some Coteaux du Layon which tastes nearly as good as the glass I bought from a roadside bar on a cycle ride from Gennes to Saumur last month on the day that they closed all the roads to cars for the Anjou bike festival.

I'd never heard of it before, and I've never seen it over here. Where can I get some more?

Wonderful stuff, I agree jean.

You could try ...

http://www.yapp.co.uk/pages/productList.aspx?loadType=search&q=coteaux+du+layon

http://www.stonevine.co.uk/advanced-search/

Happy tasting

[Barbirollians]

Try http://www.wine-searcher.com

[jean]

I have just been drinking some Coteaux du Layon which tastes nearly as good as the glass I bought from a roadside bar on a cycle ride from Gennes to Saumur last month on the day that they closed all the roads to cars for the Anjou bike festival.

I'd never heard of it before, and I've never seen it over here. Where can I get some more?

[Nick Armstrong]

No problem Cali - I just thought I'd look it up and thought others might share my enlightenment.

Funnily enough, we were looking at that page earlier today

[cloughie]

Yes cloughie - I should have been clearer.... I meant: no one I know had ever heard of it!

No problem Cali - I just thought I'd look it up and thought others might share my enlightenment.