Today’s Bargain Booze is a Bordeaux from Waitrose. 1/3 off at the moment. It may not set your meticulously curated world alight, but it’s pretty good. A proper everyday Bordeaux.
medium bodied
Alsace Pinot Noir, Kuentz-Bas Collection 2005 review
… will help you avoid meting out acts of equine violence should you be confronted with the prospect of a Pinot Noir Twitter shindig
Allegrini Valpolicella review
… is a happy wine. And the perfect stimulus for a collaborative essay about contemporary art
Marques de Caceres Rioja Blanco review
… conspicuously lacks the dance, the verve, the pizzazz — in both its label and, alas, its taste
Potel Aviron Moulin-a-Vent 2005 review
… triumphantly reminds us that the word ‘fruity’ actually refers to real, honest fruit — not the synthetic sugar-water peddled by oily bell-ends in ugly suits
English Bacchus Reserve, Chapel Down
… will give you a subtly blossomed English caress — but perhaps leave you dreaming of ecstatic frenzy and phallic symbolism
Momo Pinot Noir 2008, Marlborough review
… is stuffed with more fruit that a small child at a pick-your-own fruit farm. But matures a hell of a lot more quickly
Le Fraghe 2009, Bardolino Review
… will light up all the buzzers on the pinball table of your palate. For under a tenner.
Palataia Pinot Noir 2009 Review
… won’t blast you with fruit & veg like some crazed pyromaniac greengrocer. No; it’s lean, discrete, introverted. And in disguise.
Tor del Colle Riserva 2006, Montepulciano
… will tantalise you with an all-too-fleeting whiff of bubblegum before becoming thoroughly reasonable, easy and — perhaps — a bit less racy than its Nakedness might have you wish for