What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[smittims]

I've just stocked up on ALDI's Estevan Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon at £4.19 a bottle . It has a crimson label if you're looking for it. Delicious

[kernelbogey]

A most agreeable bottle of Grûner Veltliner - Austrian, obviously. This one was from Waitrose - currently on offer. Good as both an aperitivo (aka ein Glasl) or with food, IMVHO.

[vinteuil]

... to accompany Mme v's mid-week cottage pie, a 2011 chasse-spleen.

I have discovered a new word : this wine has the following description from an admirer -

"A parfaite maturité. Prêt à boire. Degusté sans qu’il apparaisse utile de le décanter. Attaque nette et précise. Prune et cerise noire dominantes. Peu d’arômes empyreumatiques. Une touche de cuir neuf. Tanins parfaitement fondus. Point n’est besoin de trop attendre pour prendre son plaisir. Jolie bouteille."

'Empyreumatic' ... must find a way to drag it into the conversation

[vinteuil]

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... Vers les Alpes, Quénard 2023. - Chignin, Savoie.

"cette cuvée vous fera voyager sur les pics enneigés"

grape :Jacquère

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqu%C3%A8re

eliciting very happy memories of the many Early Music Festivals at Ambronay back in the day

https://festival.ambronay.org/en/

This bottle from the Wine Society, I think. Went very well with the mackerel...

[Roger Webb]

These Morrisons 'Wine of the Week' wines are getting quite interesting. This week's is a Bordeaux, Chateau Comte de Saint Emmanuel. 2022. Tried one last night, went back today for 24! At £5, reduced from £12.50, well worth a punt.

[Roger Webb]

Talking about Rhône wines earlier on the 'food' thread made me notice a Principauté d'Orange by Le Relais du Roi, Morrisons' 'Wine of the Week'. Just opened it...pretty good....for £5...reduced from £13. I'll be back later in the week - they had lots of it piled high!

[Keraulophone]

Moulin-à-Vent 2009 Clos de Rochegrès, Ch des Jacques, Louis Jadot - last night accompanying Creedy Carver duck breast with cherry. Proof that this excpetional Beaujolais is capable of ageing into pinot noir territory (pinotisation) regarding flavours and texture. Usually I wouldn't wait more than 10 years, but this one at 15 1/2 was still expressive. Great value too, compared with equivalently aged Burgundy.

[Roger Webb]

I've been drinking a real cheap wine, but I think a really enjoyable one. Guigal CdR Blanc. Amazing value for money -- as if they wanted it to be a good introduction to the Guigal marque, so he made sure that the wines included in the blend were all good, and that the blending was done well.

https://www.ocado.com/products/guiga...lanc-606778011

Funny thing, whilst doing my post above I reminisced about the Guigal Côte Roties that the excellent Mr Jones kept at the Croche-en-bouche in Malvern a few years ago. This really was the most extraordinary wine list for Rhône wines...I still have a print-out of his list, I doubt it could be matched in this country!

[Mandryka]

I've been drinking a real cheap wine, but I think a really enjoyable one. Guigal CdR Blanc. Amazing value for money -- as if they wanted it to be a good introduction to the Guigal marque, so he made sure that the wines included in the blend were all good, and that the blending was done well.

https://www.ocado.com/products/guigal-cote-du-rhone-blanc-606778011

[Roger Webb]

Took a punt on a claret in Aldi - not advertised as their 'wine of the week' (Edit: just checked, it is now!), but looked promising for £4.99 (they claimed reduced from 7.99...but subsequent searches reveal it sells from £10 - £17.99!).

Chateau Genlaire, 2021, won a gold at Lyon Concours in 2024. A Bordeaux Supérior from Entre-Deux-Mers it gets solid reviews.

Nice tannic wine, I got 18 today...going back tomorrow - best bargain there since last year's celebrated Cairanne...I managed to get 10 of those, despite it being supposedly limited to two per customer!

[vinteuil]

"Graduates", perhaps, who work for/own a hedge fund (or the like)? It sounds delightful.

... got it in one : two of his former students have done exceptionally well in the field of finance, but have always remained close friends with their former history tutor - and so offered a lunch for him and his wife and twenty close friends. Very touching, and very nicely done

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[smittims]

I've been enjoying a very nice Chilean (Estevez) Cabernet Sauvignon from ALDI at £4.19. It has a crimson label if you're looking for it. I pefer it to their £3.99 Spanish Merlot .

[Old Grumpy]

Greasy Fingers Luscious Red...


...name and bottle decoration not particularly appealing, I admit, but 22.5% reduction with Clubcard was tempting - and I was. Really rather good.

https://www.vivino.com/GB/en/greasy-fingers-luscious-red/w/12214402

[HighlandDougie]

"Graduates", perhaps, who work for/own a hedge fund (or the like)? It sounds delightful. I was subjected last Saturday by my friend Elizabeth (terribly proud to have been deemed recently by Jancis Robinson as , "the Queen of Rosés") to a selective tasting of 24 reds/whites from the Costières de Nimes appelation. No swallowing allowed. Hard work - the neighbouring appelations to the north-east towards Avignon and Montélimar need not worry. And the 24 was post-winnowing of 48 wines (2 bottles of each wine) which had been delivered to them by their long-suffering Facteur. So, in best French fashion, our Forum Connoisseurs should shudder and note, "a fuir".

[vinteuil]

You have a student who's 80?

... not at all! I am not an academic : but our friend is an historian (specialist subjects : Cromwell, the Civil War), some of whose students have done very well, and who generously got together to provide a slap-up meal...

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