What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[french frank]

I think it will be fine for a few years yet - a good bottle will probably be perfect at Christmas .

Oh, I was going to have it with my nut roast tomorrow I can't remember which website it was said that it would be at its best between 2011(?) and 2018. The Coop was flogging it for £14 while the other place was asking £20.

[I picked up 5p from the floor, which reduced the price from 50p to 45p, then dang me, I dropped 20p under the chiller cabinet, which sent it sky-rocketing to 65p]

[Barbirollians]

Oh, I was going to have it with my nut roast tomorrow I can't remember which website it was said that it would be at its best between 2011(?) and 2018. The Coop was flogging it for £14 while the other place was asking £20.

[I picked up 5p from the floor, which reduced the price from 50p to 45p, then dang me, I dropped 20p under the chiller cabinet, which sent it sky-rocketing to 65p]

Well you could always treat yourself tomorrow and splash out on another for Christmas if you can save enough points ! cellartracker suggests best between 2015-2022

[french frank]

Well you could always treat yourself tomorrow and splash out on another for Christmas if you can save enough points ! cellartracker suggests best between 2015-2022

Perfect I think I'd do well to snap up their stock, with or without my member's discount.

[french frank]

Nothing if not adventurous: I picked up (and subsequently bought) a wine called Limestone Rise, wondering vaguely if it came from the same stable as Blossom Hill, in which case it should have been with the New World wines but wasn't. This was in fact the first English wine I've ever seen in the Coop, and the main impulse to buy was that it came from the here recently discussed Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, home of the Surrey Performing Arts Library.

Just found these comments.

It was 2015, £7.99 and a Coop wine (so 40p on my account towards the next purchase); and 11% ABV. My impression is that English wines are expensive (relatively), lowish in alcohol but rather tasty. This is a racy, fragrant one. It says here.

Anyway, the 40p is banked and may go toward a delicious-looking 1/2 bottle of Sauternes dessert wine (can't remember the name - began with R, I think) which makes the Lamothe-Bergeron look cheap i.e. the 1/2 bottle about the same price as the whole bottle of Bordeaux red. Happy days!

[Barbirollians]

Beaujolais Villages 2016 Trenel from the Wine Society £8.50 - only 12.5 degrees alcohol lots of cherry fruit and no hint of banana or sweetness .

[french frank]

only 12.5 degrees alcohol

Only? I'd say that's a good average. The Coop had one at 15% - Lirac, I think - and that's practically fortified wine strength!

[Lat-Literal]

Nothing if not adventurous: I picked up (and subsequently bought) a wine called Limestone Rise, wondering vaguely if it came from the same stable as Blossom Hill, in which case it should have been with the New World wines but wasn't. This was in fact the first English wine I've ever seen in the Coop, and the main impulse to buy was that it came from the here recently discussed Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, home of the Surrey Performing Arts Library.

Just found these comments.

It was 2015, £7.99 and a Coop wine (so 40p on my account towards the next purchase); and 11% ABV. My impression is that English wines are expensive (relatively), lowish in alcohol but rather tasty. This is a racy, fragrant one. It says here.

Anyway, the 40p is banked and may go toward a delicious-looking 1/2 bottle of Sauternes dessert wine (can't remember the name - began with R, I think) which makes the Lamothe-Bergeron look cheap i.e. the 1/2 bottle about the same price as the whole bottle of Bordeaux red. Happy days!

There is a good walk incorporating Denbies Wine Estate.

However, just as some exotic wine contains actual gold - our South African neighbours offered some; I declined - I can wonder whether the Dorking stuff has traces of lego brick:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8269479.stm

[teamsaint]

There is a good walk incorporating Denbies Wine Estate.

However, just as some exotic wine contains actual gold - our South African neighbours offered some; I declined - I can wonder whether the Dorking stuff has traces of lego brick:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8269479.stm

that's Brown Windsor soup you're thinking of there, Lat.

[Lat-Literal]

that's Brown Windsor soup you're thinking of there, Lat.

So it is.

My mistake - I take full responsibility.

[teamsaint]

So it is.

My mistake - I take full responsibility.

Thats a very , er, responsible response, Lat.

Shame about that house though, TBF.

[DracoM]

Californian Syrah -Bellingham. A surprise.

[Barbirollians]

Only? I'd say that's a good average. The Coop had one at 15% - Lirac, I think - and that's practically fortified wine strength!

That's the point all too difficult to find red wine under 13 degrees nowadays - so many New World fruit bombs about . Lirac is close to Chateauneuf du Paps and is principally Grenache which does tend to produce high alcohol wines in hot areas like the Southern Rhone .

[cloughie]

Has anyone tried 2017 Beauj Nouv? I picked up a bottle in Waitrose which will accompany a cassoulet today. What a difference 30 or so years makes. Thenabouts it was stacked up in all wine outlets nowadays harder to source - I always looked forward to it as a celebration to brighten up the shortening daylight of November days! Not fine wine but the best of it was fruity and cheerful.

[Nick Armstrong]

Château les Marnières, Bergerac Rouge.

Delicious. Spending some time near Bergerac at the moment. Pécharmant is very close, whose wines I first heard about on this thread - Château Corbiac is going to get a visit soon.

A visit last week to Château de Monbazillac, even closer



included a tasting at which a little number called Grains d'Or (2013) was my favourite - likewise a morning at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux included a taste of a sweet white from Cadillac (Ch. La Bertrande) which was even nicer than the Monbazillacs. I'd never encountered the wines of Cadillac before.

Best of all though, yesterday afternoon at Ch. Clos du Notaire next to the Dordogne among the Côtes de Bourg, one of my favourite regular tipples - soon to reappear on the Wine Society's list, pending which a case in the boot will have to do...



Hope their 'everyday' wine called Usufruit will also appear in the WS, and their posher Notaris... But their familiar Clos du Notaire at about 8 quid a bottle will do very nicely....

[teamsaint]

There is a newish Aldi near us, so recommendations for their best offerings please ?

Ta.

( Nice pics above, Cals. )