Wine Appreciation / Oenophiles

For the love wine.

What are you drinking at the moment?

Beer

Henschke Keyneton Euphonium Shiraz Cabernet Merlot 2003.
Try it!

Anything made with Sangiovese grapes.

Red flavour

5l carboard box full o' this stuff

stunning depth of flavour, has a great nose, bouquet, and lasts too

hints of tobacco, petrol, glycine/glucol, dangleberries, tagnuts,

So far we've got Sangiovese, Buckfast and Blue Nun, classy forum this is, you spend a monkey on a front wheel but like your wine dirty and cheap.

from now on you can find me on the beer thread

Lambrini.

If I'm feeling flush it's La Mancha....

bring the hoose doon juice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/04/wine-critics-advice-unchallenged-bunk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/feb/04/wine-criticism-tasting-flavour-matching

it's like rapha clothing
you can get a great bottle of wine for £4.99 but some people will still buy £20 bottles and not be able to tell the difference

blue nun ftw

Quite true what you say dicki, blue non though is not the answer to everything.
In some cultures it's frowned upon if you spend more then £5 on a bottle of wine.
Castillo de Calatrava is a great value wine from La Mancha, almost always on offer at Sainsbury's for £5.

my blue nun comments are a bit tongue in cheek
i am a beer cider bitter person but a nice glass of nice wine once in a while, with a meal, is a real pleasure
my dad's homemade elderberry kind of put me off wine as a youngster
i thought that was what it all tasted like

YouTube- Elton John - Elderberry Wine

I have a magnum of st emilion grand cru under my desk that I will be giving away tomorrow :'( chateau gessan 2002, just in case that means anything to the blue nun aficionados out there

fortunately, that was 2 of 2, and I got to taste some of the first one, even though that was a gift, too. Luvverly, it was.

Interestingly, it seems that even wine experts can't identify the odd one out in a trio of red wines. Same sort of thing goes for whiskey and (especially) vodka. Apparently, it's all made up. Good few pages on it in Leonard Mlodinow's book The Drunkard's Walk.

I went though a lengthy Rioja phase last year, may have overdone it tad actually. Got burned out on all that Crianza and Faustino. Still like it but am trying to branch out a bit.

Got a nice drop from Oddbins yesterday actually, it was the staff recomendation Wolftrap or something? Yep, The Wolftrap, Syrah Mourvedre Viognier. Only about £6 I think and verrrry nice it was too. I like a nice Burgundy too. Had a bottle of Chateau De Brague on Saturday. Quite drinkable but not wow. If i'm honest I only went for it because I honed in on a new Burgundy I hadn't tried and the fact that it was 2006 which I vaguely recall being told was a good year. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to wine. Recomedations welcome.

^Learn to spell; that would be my recommendation.

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to wine. Recommendations welcome.

I recommend that you think about spending more than £10 a bottle. Try a Barolo if you like Riojas...

Fully developed, ready to drink.
Meaty
A wine with chewy, fleshy fruit; sturdy and firm in structure.

Some prat will put UB40 up soon

YouTube- UB 40 - red red wine

YouTube- Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richard

YouTube- Bottle of Red Wine