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You lucky fellow!
I don’t generally drink white wine, but this I like. I’ve got a couple cases of 2007 Tondonia stored in bond waiting for a reason to be drunk.I love the white Tondonia. Very fond of the old school white Rioja, and don’t really know why modern producers have moved away from that style to a wine that has little to distinguish it from hundreds of other white wines already on sale.
I got a box of 12 Guigal 2016 from the same source a week ago, but although my total bill was a lot more than 200€ I didn't get the 30€ off, perhaps because I cashed in a 14€ voucher I had from a previous visit. I tasted it yesterday (the wine, not the voucher). Good/not superlative, but at that price a definite bargain. I often wonder if Guigal have different batches of the same wine, say this generic CdR 2016.Amazingly, there were still at least a dozen Guigal CdR 2016 on the shelf. Adding a dozen cheap and likeable Costières de Nîmes (3€/bottle) pushed the total just over 120€, so that meant a nice discount that I can cash in on my pre-quarantine shop on the way home.
The Guigal was already on offer in the wine fair at 7.20€, so splitting the 30€ between the dozen bottles makes each one 4.70€, or around £4.25. Sometimes life is good.
^ I think Marchbanks has an App alerting him to discounts across Europe.
Guigal production of CdR is so high there probably are variations/batches within a vintage. Doubt they would give any info on that though. IIRC about 1 million bottles a year !
They did last time. The time before that (lost for three months) they were lodged between the branches of a dwarf rose bush on the patio.The supermarket may have your specs: no use to anyone else after all.
I love the white Tondonia. Very fond of the old school white Rioja, and don’t really know why modern producers have moved away from that style to a wine that has little to distinguish it from hundreds of other white wines already on sale.
Not Planeta but on a lesser budget always thought it was a bit of bargain
especially when on offer:
https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-the-best-nerello-mascalese-380166011
Did you get a mix of dry /mellow sweetA knock on the door just after 9am this morning, and the bearded vultures have come home to roost! I’m really looking forward to trying these.
I had an email from a second courier yesterday telling me a parcel was on the way and to click on a link to nominate a safe leaving place. I thought it was a scam until I noticed the package was coming from a merchant whose website I had scoured - I had totally forgotten placing an order and asking for deferred delivery. Good job they are honest and efficient. Age-related faulty memory is no fun.
Aren’t they. And I’ve only just spotted that the VT has extra gilding compared to the others.Very fetching labels.
I didn’t buy the Sec. The others are all described as moelleux on their website, but I would imagine to my taste they are demi-sec (Classique, mixture of Gros and Petit Manseng), sweet (Samonios, passerillaged Petit Manseng) and even sweeter (Sainte Catherine, Petit Manseng, VT.)Did you get a mix of dry /mellow sweet
or just the latter?
Very sound recommendation thank you.
Yes, the Muga seems more typical of where white Rioja has gone these days, and I miss the oaked and controlled oxidation of the classic style. Tondonia, and the lesser Gravonia, are the main ones I go to these days, but I’ve also recently been introduced to Allende, which has much to commend it and similar in price to Gravonia.One of my favorite wines ever was a 1985 Vina Ardanza Blanco - a well oaked wine indeed. No longer made it seems and the whole Oaked White Rioja style is nearly dead. I had a case of the stuff back along (gifted as I remember - well out of my normal price range) but did not look after it well and the last two bottles went down the sink. We very nearly cried.
I do buy White Rioja Muga from time to time - very nice but certainly not the same.