The Wine & Whisky Thread

[Barry]

Mmmm! Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte de Beaune and Vacqueyras.

Beside the excellent Lebanese wines, I also have a fondness for Turkish Kavaklideri reds, as well as the excellent Tunisian:

Vieux Magon AOC Mornag 2001
Grapes: 60% Carignan (50 years), 40% Syrah

“Deep red to purple. Warm brooding nose with good depth of fruit. Supple plummy notes, oak and figs, and secondary aromatics: dusty spices and dry earth. Voluptuous palate. Plenty of fine tannins. Rich, viscous and balanced. Not too alcoholic. Fine and persistent with dried berries and cherry on length.”

or the

Vieux Magon AOC Mornag 2002
Grapes: 60% Carignan (50 years), 40% Syrah

“Deeply coloured and more purple than 2001. Fresher nose than 2001 too. Again plummy in style. Syrah influence showing with medicine, spices and pepper over berry fruit. Big on the palate. Plentiful tannins, though not as developed in flavour. A hint of green overlaying, but still very good. Fresher and more primary flavour. Needs time, but he says the 2001 was considered the classic.”

I drank a fair amount of the 2008/9 when I visited Tunisa in 2010 and brought a few bottles back with me.

[Rare Bird]

All my Red vino comes from Aldi.. had some nice Merlot tonight (My fav)

[Marco]

Nice one, dude. Aldi sells some great stuff, including their wines and beers. Some people tend to look down on Aldi and Lidl, rather snobbishly, as being for the 'lower classes', or chavs, but I can assure you, that couldn't be further from the truth!

If you want chavs, go to Asda!!

The majority of Aldi's produce is either sourced from Germany, or locally from where the shops are located geographically, most of which is of higher quality than that found in Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, etc. It's just cheaper because you're not paying for bullshit fancy displays or brand names with a falsely perceived 'prestige' value. The discerning people shop there

The staff are also far more efficient, especially the lightening speed with which they scan items through the tills, unlike the frustrating 'go slow' policy, permanently adopted by staff in other supermarkets!

Oh, and M&S is simply for dim-witted Michael Bublé-loving social climbers, with a penchant for infantilism. The only supermarkets that sell notably higher quality merchandise than Aldi, are Waitrose or Booths.

Marco.

[The Grand Wazoo]

I'll second that, the veg is consistently high quality too.
The Saint Emilion on offer at the moment as recommended above is really rather good ....and very moorish!

[jon1]

Marco thank's for you timeThat is one hell of a selection you have put forward mate cheers for that and have a good one



jon

[Marco]

No worries, matey. There are a lot of different styles in the wines I listed, so if you'd like me to narrow things down a bit, taking into account your tastes, then I can do so.

Also, those are all pretty expensive wines, so if you'd like some high 'SPPV' (slurp-per-pound value) suggestions instead, just shout!

Marco.

[jon1]

No worries, matey. There are a lot of different styles in the wines I listed, so if you'd like me to narrow things down a bit, taking into account your tastes, then I can do so.

Also, those are all pretty expensive wines, so if you'd like some high 'SPPV' (slurp-per-pound value) suggestions instead, just shout!

Marco.

Marco...you have some very expensive tastes in wine mate..cheersAnd again thanks for your reply..


jon

[Marco]

Lol - you're welcome. I may have expensive tastes in wines, but I only buy the wines in question when I get good deals!

We go once a year on a wine-buying trip to France, and so I pick up most of that stuff (often direct from the vineyard or from the local area) for a fraction of the price you get it here, and it's often much better quality... I like 'win-wins'

Slurp-per-Pound Value is as important to me with wine, as Sound-per-Pound Value is with hi-fi gear!!

Marco.

[jon1]

Lol - you're welcome. I may have expensive tastes in wines, but I only buy the wines in question when I get good deals!

We go once a year on a wine-buying trip to France, and so I pick up most of that stuff (often direct from the vineyard or from the local area) for a fraction of the price you get it here, and it's often much better quality... I like 'win-wins'

Slurp-per-Pound Value is as important to me with wine, as Sound-per-Pound Value is with hi-fi gear!!

Marco.

Looks like i will have to stick with the likes of aldi there no shopping trips to france for me bugger did you get stocked up this year marco?



jon

[Marco]

Aldi are great, Jon. Pick up a copy of their 'Sparkling Christmas Market' brochure, available in store, and buy anything in it, food or wine, with the absolute confidence that it will be more than bloody good!

Yup, we went to France earlier in the year and brought back about 150 bottles of wine, between the four of us, not including beer and cider, aperitifs or food - the car was heaving!

See here for some pics: http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19867

Next year we'll be going to France again, but this time en-route to Italy, so the car will be even more heaving, with whole Parma hams and Parmesan cheeses, etc, not to mention some stunning Italian wines!!

Needless to say, in January, we're buying a bigger car!

Marco.