Red wine

I agree with the Single Malt quote.

My all time favourite wine is Tesco's Cuvee Prestige Red.

It's cheap and cheerful and I love it. I've tried MANY different wines but if it's a bottle to sit down and relax this does the job. I'd rather know what I'm getting than taking a chance.

The McGuigan's one quoted is cracking as well. Had a couple of bottles of it a couple of weekends ago and it goes down a treat.

Not so fond of Rioja though, but again it comes down to the individual bottle.
 
Another vote for Penfolds, Wolf Blass and New World varities.

I went on a Wine tasting evening hosted in one of our local restaurants. If anyone gets the chance it is well worth getting on an evening like this if only once. You do pick up some basic tips on how to taste the wine. More importantly we got lots of information on the different countries and wine growing regions. Chilean and Argentinian wines are definately on the up. A typical bottle of French or Italian red would cost maybe £3.00-£4.00 more expensive than their new world counterparts with no difference in quality. From personal taste I can vouch for this.

Personally I like to go for a plain and simple Merlot or Shiraz and a Jacobs Creek Cabernet Shiraz is Quite quaffable at under £5.00 in most supermarkets. Don Cayetano Cabernet Suavignion 2005 from Chile is a real treat and I can vouch for the 12 bottles I polished off from Laithwaites ;)
 
I tend to drink a bottle of red per weekend. Usually a Saturday night affair.

I'll spend £7+ generally and take my time selecting something that I'm in the mood for, and I'll enjoy with/after my meal.

Red wine is usually very enjoyable. I'm no expert on it but I'm trying bit by bit.
 
Dont buy mass marketed wines - your paying some fat corporation to put out a brand on a cheap, additive laden wine. Which is usually 'shiraz' because most punters think that because it tastes like jammy/ribena alcohol then its supposed to be good stuff.

If you like wine - i'd buy a wine book and look at how they are made, what the french/italian/spanish regions and best chateaux/bodegas/etc are and start making selections based on those - and not going by what supermarkets pimp to you.

Ill admit that i started out on cheap 3.99 wine - but theres nothing better than a nice 10-15 quid bottle of wine that you've researched and know a bit about and can make an informed choice about - they usually taste far better, more complex, and its just an all over nicer experience.

Wine is a snobby business yeah - but its like organic food and the like .... you just need to know a bit about what your buying, the producers and the product in question and you can soon start savouring things in the manner they were intended.

By all means enjoy cheap wine ... but remember that in your 2.99 bottle of wine, something like 1.75 of that is pure duty going to the government - so that leaves 1.24 for the wine producer to actually put into the bottle. Theres a ton of additives and rubbish they put in there to balance bad flavours and things - and after a while, cheap wine just tastes like filth in comparrison.

But .... as a good starting point - have a look for wines by 'Georges Duboef' - they usually go for 7.99 a bottle in places like waitrose and are good examples of wine from the burgundy region that arent horrifically priced, but taste very good. His 'Fleurie' and 'Julienas' are nice light wines you can drink slightly chilled (even though they are reds) and start a nice voyage of discovery from there ...
 
My mum has just bought us a bottle of 'black tower' i think it was, i didnt try it but all those that did said it was one of the nicest wines they've had!
 
I love red wine; my favourite is Burgundy, but alas it's generally very expensive, so Pinot Noir from the new world is a good alternative. Most Australian wines are decent, and Chilean wines are now very good too (as well as Argentinian Malbecs).
 
wozzizname said:
I love red wine; my favourite is Burgundy, but alas it's generally very expensive, so Pinot Noir from the new world is a good alternative. Most Australian wines are decent, and Chilean wines are now very good too (as well as Argentinian Malbecs).
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Yeah, another vote for the Argentine wine. Norton, etc own. There's a chilean wine called "30 degrees south" which was very good.

Italian wine is good too.

The French stuff has gone off IMO.
 
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