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Saturday, 6 September 2025
Frankly,
many of the Bordeaux and Côtes du Rhône wines sold in French supermarkets under €12 aren't worth much more than this.
4 comments:
Martin
said...
Still living off pocket money, I drink my wines (both red and white), usually bought for something between 1.99€ up to 3.50€ a bottle, "on the rocks" and often diluted with sparkling water. Only once in my life I got an excellent wine for likely less than 4€, about 21 years ago, shortly before my departure to visit a friend who had moved places after the suicide of his father. I was likely the last one to talk with his him, hours before he killed himself. He sounded quite serene, when I requested about the whereabouts of his son. "I have no idea where the rascal is hiding."
Yours, Martin - who finally takes a plane to Scotland tomorrow, after nearly five months of hesitation.
It was a Shiraz, which I then declared to be my favourite grape. Of course, I have likely never had a very good, let alone an outstanding Shiraz ever since.
When I had a well-off wine-loving friend with a flat in London, I drank some amazing wines - the great classics of Bordeaux and Burgundy. But they really need meat to accompany them. Vegetarians require lighter wines. I have found a lovely local 11% red which is about less than 2€ a litre from the grower's market stall, and in the local supermarket a very good white for 3€50. Sometimes I buy a 6€ Gewurtztraminer from Alsace which is very good indeed. The problem is that there are so many rather nasty wines that seem to be bought by people with no palates (the majority). CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TICKET-PURCHASE. Send me a postcard to Anthony, 18 rue de Lifernet, 82160 CAYLUS, France. And have a good time. xxx
Shiraz is the Australian and American name for the Syrah grape, which grows very well in SW France and in the Rhone valley. It also mixes nicely with Cab. Sauvignon or Mourvèdre (called Monastrell in Spain).
4 comments:
Still living off pocket money, I drink my wines (both red and white), usually bought for something between 1.99€ up to 3.50€ a bottle, "on the rocks" and often diluted with sparkling water.
Only once in my life I got an excellent wine for likely less than 4€, about 21 years ago, shortly before my departure to visit a friend who had moved places after the suicide of his father. I was likely the last one to talk with his him, hours before he killed himself. He sounded quite serene, when I requested about the whereabouts of his son. "I have no idea where the rascal is hiding."
Yours,
Martin - who finally takes a plane to Scotland tomorrow, after nearly five months of hesitation.
It was a Shiraz, which I then declared to be my favourite grape. Of course, I have likely never had a very good, let alone an outstanding Shiraz ever since.
When I had a well-off wine-loving friend with a flat in London, I drank some amazing wines - the great classics of Bordeaux and Burgundy. But they really need meat to accompany them. Vegetarians require lighter wines. I have found a lovely local 11% red which is about less than 2€ a litre from the grower's market stall, and in the local supermarket a very good white for 3€50. Sometimes I buy a 6€ Gewurtztraminer from Alsace which is very good indeed.
The problem is that there are so many rather nasty wines that seem to be bought by people with no palates (the majority).
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TICKET-PURCHASE.
Send me a postcard to Anthony, 18 rue de Lifernet, 82160 CAYLUS, France. And have a good time. xxx
Shiraz is the Australian and American name for the Syrah grape, which grows very well in SW France and in the Rhone valley. It also mixes nicely with Cab. Sauvignon or Mourvèdre (called Monastrell in Spain).
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