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Lussac St.Emilion, affordable Bordeaux

February 3, 2012
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I have always liked the wines of Bordeaux: from the top growths to Bordeaux Superiore and everything in-between. What people often overlook is that it’s not just the first growths that produce amazing wines. Bordeaux is a place where you can find all sorts of good red wine at affordable prices, as long as you’re [...]

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Setley Ridge [English Red] Wine From The New Forest

February 1, 2012
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“Do you know, I had the most terrific bottle of English red the other day …“ It’s something you just don’t hear people say, isn’t it? I’ve often wondered why, but never quite so much as to convince myself to buy a bottle and put my deep-seated prejudices to the test. Since a young age [...]

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Marks & Spencer Maison du Tastelune 2009 Vin de Bourgogne Pinot Noir

January 23, 2012
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The word “Bourgogne” appears thrice on the almost-impressively dull label of this Marks & Spencer red. What school of logic requires three instances of a word the target audience (even at their most wine-savvy) simply don’t use, I couldn’t say. We have a word for wines like this in English: Burgundy. Marketing a French wine [...]

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Jacob’s Creek Shiraz Cabernet

January 16, 2012
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I don’t remember the vintage of this bottle, and the photograph I took on my phone isn’t detailed enough to remind me. But I suppose the point of any given Jacob’s Creek wine is that the year of bottling, weather conditions during grape growth and whether or not Belgium had a government when the harvesting [...]

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Some Young Punks Fierce Allure 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon

January 9, 2012
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This all-Australian (but international in outlook) Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the best of a pretty good (and very big) batch of wines I tried over the Christmas period. Among some solid Rioja and Bordeaux it was nice to try an Australian varietal I wouldn’t normally favour, and to find it full of character and flavour. [...]

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Pazzia is “Crazy” in Italian – Primitivo di Manduria

January 6, 2012
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According to  my Italian flatmate, “pazzia” means crazy in Italian. I had her translate the back label of the 2008 Pazzia Luccarelli Old Vines Primitivo di Manduria because my Italian is not so pretty. According to the label, everyone thought that the producers were crazy to think they could coax any grapes from the poor, [...]

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Umberto Cesari – Sangiovese Riserva 2008

December 31, 2011
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Emilia-Romagna is not a wine producing region in Italy that is well known for turning out wines of quality but one producer believed in the area and founded his vineyards there over 40 years ago. Emilia-Romagna is not that far from Tuscany, situated to the north east of the area on the other side of [...]

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Casa Silva Quinta Generacion 2008 Red Blend

December 23, 2011
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Casa Silva is located in one of the best wine growing regions of Chile, the Colchagua Valley in centre of this long and thin country. The vineyards were founded in 1892 by Emile Bouchon, a Bordelais who dreamed of producing quality wines from the valleys of Chile. At one time, the winery was one of [...]

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Domaine de la Garenne – Bandol Wine

December 8, 2011
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Bandol is not such a well known wine appellation but they do produce some cracking wines which are perfect for mealtime drinking. I was recently introduced to online French wine  specialist retailer Pierre Hourlier Wines. A small wine importer who source wines from smaller producers, they are constantly on the lookout for excellent quality and [...]

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Il Merlonero Quotidiano 2010 – Everyday Italian

December 1, 2011
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Oddbins has been resurrected. The late and much lamented high street chain of wine shops began as a shop full of quirky, interesting, good and best of all good value wines. Oddbins was the place to go if you were an adventurous wine drinker. Sadly, over the years, mismanagement and the inability to keep up [...]

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Alpha Estate Hedgehog Vineyard Xinomavro 2007

November 21, 2011
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This is a new one on me. Xinomavro is a Greek grape and this is grown in the hedgehog-friendly surrounds of a vineyard in Alpha Estate in Amyndeon in the formerly Macedonian (and in no way Yugoslavic) area of northern Greece. Confession time: I’ve always studiously avoided Greek wine because I was pretty confident it [...]

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