The best Red wine.

[Brightwell’s left peg]

So I'm trying the Barolo. It's ok, but I do think you guys need to try the Trivento Golden Reserve Malbec!!! Not just the Trivento, but the golden reserve version.

Will work my way through all those mentioned.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Conde Noble, Lidls finest at £2.75. Paid 75 cents in Spain for the same shite. First mouthful would make your teeth curl but it always was a pretentiously spirited little number without to much animosity.

 

[Chippy_boy]

So I'm trying the Barolo. It's ok, but I do think you guys need to try the Trivento Golden Reserve Malbec!!! Not just the Trivento, but the golden reserve version.

Will work my way through all those mentioned.

Trouble with Barolo mate is that it's intrinsically expensive stuff (for reasons I know not why), so to sell it for £10 - £15 a bottle, the supermarkets have to sell you the worst crap available. More often than not, I've found a £12 Barolo to be borderline undrinkable. The same goes for Brunello di Montalcino (aka Brunello), and (to a lesser extent) Amarone. (And Ribero del Duero on the same theme.) These are all wines that come into their own at a higher price point than most supermarkets want to sell at.

Spend £25+ on a Barolo and they start to get very good. At £50+ they can be amazing, but it's a long time since I dropped £50 on a bottle of wine.

For £10 ish, you're better off with a worse wine, if you know what I mean. A Valpolicella Ripasso, for example.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Trouble with Barolo mate is that it's intrinsically expensive stuff (for reasons I know not why), so to sell it for £10 - £15 a bottle, the supermarkets have to sell you the worst crap available. More often than not, I've found a £12 Barolo to be borderline undrinkable. The same goes for Brunello di Montalcino (aka Brunello), and (to a lesser extent) Amarone. (And Ribero del Duero on the same theme.) These are all wines that come into their own at a higher price point than most supermarkets want to sell at.

Spend £25+ on a Barolo and they start to get very good. At £50+ they can be amazing, but it's a long time since I dropped £50 on a bottle of wine.

For £10 ish, you're better off with a worse wine, if you know what I mean. A Valpolicella Ripasso, for example.

It was a Tesco finest, so I thought it would be decent enough. I'll keep an eye out for a £25 version. Cheers


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[Chippy_boy]

It was a Tesco finest, so I thought it would be decent enough. I'll keep an eye out for a £25 version. Cheers


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I wouldn't hold out much hope for the Tesco stuff mate (sorry - and hope to be proved wrong). Ascheri and Fontanafredda are decent Barolo producers in the £25 to £35 range.

But then again, at that price you can get some spectacular Italian wines - if Italian is your thing (it is mine!).

You can get a very decent bottle of Taurasi - from Campagna in Italy, made from 100% Aglianico grapes grown on the volcanic soil surrounding mt Vesuvius, which imho knocks the stuffing out of any Barolo in this price range:

http://www.mastroberardino.com/en/radici-taurasi-docg-vino-rosso/

And if you can find it anywhere, the "Refosco dal peduncolo rosso" from La Viarte is made from the fairly unusual Refosco grape and is indescribably delicious.

http://www.laviarte.it/en/refosco.php

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

For a cheap bottle of red or white, the Morrissons own brand stuff is decent. £4.25 and they do a Shiraz, Merlot, Chardonnay, Sauv Blanc etc.

It tastes like rat piss.... Seriously, that kind of shit is messing with the palate

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Amarone please

 

[Chippy_boy]

Amarone please

Good choice!

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Good choice!

or a good bottle of barolo

 

[Chippy_boy]

or a good bottle of barolo

See above!