What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[cloughie]

Ventoux "Les Traverses" 2014 by Paul Jaboulet.

This is on the current Wine Society list at £7.50 a bottle - but is in stock at £5 a bottle at the excellent Terre de Boissons in Cité Europe (5 minutes from the Calais Eurotunnel terminal).

Buying 2 cases led to a saving of (24 x 2.50) = £60, which happens to be the exact day return fare on Eurotunnel*

OK so I only broke even, but of course there were other benefits to being in France for a few hours.

And the wine makes a delicious 'house red'.




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* NB there's a EuroTunnel offer at the moment of £23 day return, Mon - Thurs until 8 December.

Had it not been necessary to go on Saturday to fit round others, I could have made a profit...

But more than £23 from these parts and a dodgy line east of Exeter. Jaboulet Ventoux sounds good. My latest glass, however, was Beaujolais Villages Nouveau from Waitrose. A very pleasant wine nicely complementing lamb steak. I always like to sample the new vintage, takes me back to the Beaujolais get togethers back in the 80s and 90s, often involving a Cassoulet.

[teamsaint]

Cheapskates here, and the house red is Aldi's Toro Loco, a 12.5% Temperanillo that goes down a treat as we attempt the Times crossword before dinner.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/000000016236700

Trouble is, we've usually finished the bottle before we've finished the crossword.

Ah, so more blanks than Blanc at Pulcinella Towers, then ?

before I get my coat, I wish this thread could be renamed "....Most recent bottle of wine...."

[Pulcinella]

Cheapskates here, and the house red is Aldi's Toro Loco, a 12.5% Temperanillo that goes down a treat as we attempt the Times crossword before dinner.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/000000016236700

Trouble is, we've usually finished the bottle before we've finished the crossword.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ventoux "Les Traverses" 2014 by Paul Jaboulet.

This is on the current Wine Society list at £7.50 a bottle - but is in stock at £5 a bottle at the excellent Terre de Boissons in Cité Europe (5 minutes from the Calais Eurotunnel terminal).

Buying 2 cases led to a saving of (24 x 2.50) = £60, which happens to be the exact day return fare on Eurotunnel*

OK so I only broke even, but of course there were other benefits to being in France for a few hours.

And the wine makes a delicious 'house red'.




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* NB there's a EuroTunnel offer at the moment of £23 day return, Mon - Thurs until 8 December.

Had it not been necessary to go on Saturday to fit round others, I could have made a profit...

[gradus]

Anyone tried English wines? Two recent ones I've greatly enjoyed are Penny Black from the Halfpenny Green Vineyard and Sonnet from the Three Choirs vineyard.

Strongly recommend the former. It was available online but I get mine from a local farmer's market.

I like Wyken Vineyards Bacchus, very drinkable although £12.99 a bottle for the 2014.

[Petrushka]

Anyone tried English wines? Two recent ones I've greatly enjoyed are Penny Black from the Halfpenny Green Vineyard and Sonnet from the Three Choirs vineyard.

Strongly recommend the former. It was available online but I get mine from a local farmer's market.

[ahinton]

... chambolle-musigny 1er cru 'les Charmes' Amiot-Servelle 2009.

I don't know much about burgundy, but it was lovely.

Well, if that experience doesn't inspire the desire to get to know a whole lot more, I'm not quite sure what would!

I recall the delectable and brilliant Jancis Robinson writing (in Confessions of a wine lover, my copy of which I cannot seem to find right now) of a crucial occasion in her early days when she shared a bottle of Chambolle-Musigny "Les Amoureuses" (1959 or thereabouts, I think) that had been bought by her then boyfriend and she realised that her interest in it well outshone her interest in him!

[vinteuil]

... chambolle-musigny 1er cru 'les Charmes' Amiot-Servelle 2009.

I don't know much about burgundy, but it was lovely.

And as it was at his club, and Mr Roper was paying, it seemed churlish to decline...




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[gradus]

Aldi's Jura sparkling Chardonnay is a lovely drink and much underpriced at £7.29.

[Padraig]

. Any suggestions for low-priced sparkling for New Year

Anna, no suggestions of any kind. I have had breakfast of scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and Bucks Fizz. Don't ask me what champagne, but it was lively.

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and lovely too.

The cellartracker folk seem to like the Julienas

Which has been opened and a small sample snifter taken! So I think it'll go nicely with the lamb. At the moment a glass of sparkly wine - because you cannot have Christmas without fizz - it's an inexpensive one, Charles de Fère Brut Premium which is ok, but a bit lacking in the bubbles that get up your nose department I think. Any suggestions for low-priced sparkling for New Year gladly received!

The cellartracker folk seem to like the Julienas

http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1417368

so enjoy!!

[vinteuil]

Why do red wine drinkers automatically assume everyone else prefers red wine? I've been given two bottles of red: Morgan, Cote du Py, Domaine de la Chaponne, Laurent Guillet 2011 and Julienas, Domaine du Clos du Fief, Michel Tete 2011. However, one will be opened to go with lamb, can I assume they are much of a muchness so it doesn't matter which?

... happy crimbletide! Either a morgon or julienas wd go very well with lamb - and the ones you've got shd be very nice indeed. Julienas is a very food-friendly wine; morgon is perhaps a bit more elegant. Enjoy!

[Dave2002]

Oh Dear! I must have sounded very ungrateful - I'm certainly not it's just that one red and one white as a present would have been more .... balanced!!

Nice to see you back here. You can always use red for marinades - though I suppose whites can also serve the same purpose. Currently we have some venison marinading, though we've got gallons of white which we hardly ever drink. Recipe suggestions including white wine could be welcome over the next few months. Some of the white wine is quite likely to be too old to be good for drinking now, but should be good enough for cooking.

Forgot your point about red wine: they're quite nice wines you've been given, but if you prefer white, just go out and get a bottle of white. Plonk even. As long as you enjoy it.

Oh Dear! I must have sounded very ungrateful - I'm certainly not it's just that one red and one white as a present would have been more .... balanced!!