Just ordered this as a holiday read unfortunately it won't arrive till I'm back!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0747591326/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
A hedonist in the wine cellar.McInerney.
Perrin Ventoux 2019. Absurdly good for the <5€ I paid. I’ll never see that price again. No matter, still 13 left. Lovely, horribly moreish and very difficult to stop at half a bottle. I failed. Never mind, I managed all the major scales today so I deserved a treat. And it’s Sunday tomorrow. (Not that it makes any difference to an OAP, but cut me a little slack...)
Every home should have one.Saint-Pourçain AOC , supposed to be one of the oldest wine growing areas in France .I'm struggling to understand where it is.Is it Rhone department?
Every home should have one.
Like so many good winey things, it was a tip-off from @BTC3Where did you get it?
I bought another bottle of this just to see, and just had some of it with lunch. It is what it is: cheap industrial claret. But very drinkable cheap industrial claret, a pleasure for me at least, to quaff. Unbelievable value at about £8 a bottle.
I would certainly recommend it over Vinatis’s Terres D’orb, especially at their current price - terres d’orb is a good cooking wine, but one glass is enough for drinking.
This Médoc is a good sipping wine, in a way, too good for the daube! Certainly too good for a party of people who aren’t wine heads. It’s like Guigal CdR in that respect.
I’ve got a case coming on Sunday.
Like so many good winey things, it was a tip-off from @BTC3
https://www.wineware.co.uk/de-longs-france-metro-style-wine-map
Syrah tonight, please, Gaston, I said. He whizzed through CT, smiled and beetled off to the cellar. There was a lot of Gallic swearing. Eventually he emerged and gave me a long stare. When I saw the bottle I understood. It had been in an unopened box of six about four boxes from easy reach.
I’m glad he persevered, though. I probably wouldn’t have considered this for a year or two, and it’s rather good. Delas are vignerons-négociants and a little coy about how many of their own grapes make it into a bottle, but no matter. Still young, fairly tannic, a reasonable amount of oak and most definitely lots of Syrah. Good choice, mon ami, I look forward to seeing how the other five develop.
Usually (as in pic above) my Pixel 2, sometimes my Panasonic GX80 if I fancy doing daft things.Great foto,what gear are you using?
Menetou-Salon rouge Henry Pelle £13.84. That would be a total punt.
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Oops. Sorry about that. PM incoming...Not a good idea there, splashy mixture of acid and oak. It may be that I’m not a Loire red person.