You'll find some crap Brunello's as well. It's very well known, so ends up being a mixed bag I found. If you like a brunello, try some of the primitivos as well, they're a stunning drink.
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Hi, I'm new 
This week I have largely been drinking:
La Montesa 2015 and la Casilla 2015, both nice at a good price point £10-12 (imported).
But for a really good Bobal for accompanying a thai takeaway, try a Vox Populi Bobal 2014 from Majestic - spicy goodness
This week I have largely been drinking:
La Montesa 2015 and la Casilla 2015, both nice at a good price point £10-12 (imported).
But for a really good Bobal for accompanying a thai takeaway, try a Vox Populi Bobal 2014 from Majestic - spicy goodness
Hi, I'm new
This week I have largely been drinking:
La Montesa 2015 and la Casilla 2015, both nice at a good price point £10-12 (imported).
But for a really good Bobal for accompanying a thai takeaway, try a Vox Populi Bobal 2014 from Majestic - spicy goodness
Hey there! Do you use Vivino? I like it as a way to track/ buy and check my wines!
In fact, I have bought a lot of wine (most stuff I've previously had) through there and got the premium app just so I get free delivery. Saved me a ton so far, but cost me a lot in wine
3 clicks I think it is and it's bought now. Which is amazing.I have not used them, but looking at some of the spanish wines, i might have to
thanks for the tipI buy from https://www.decantalo.com/en/ it does have delivery charges but a good range of wines (Spanish) and at reasonable prices on the whole - a few are still worth getting in the UK rather than importing
Otherwise, Majestic, Waitrose and Berry Brothers are my go to places in the UK
Oh ffs. I have been searching for an EU distro for Nickel and Nickel wines for ages. No reply from them until I hounded them some more and they said one in the UK (site didn't even list any!) and one in Germany... which had 2 types on there! **** me. I just ordered 11 bottles of wine for 450quid 
BUT CHRIST THEY LOOOOOOK SO GOOD!
That and the 18 bottles of Nativ I bought the other day has me stocked back up a bit to ~50 bottles.
BUT CHRIST THEY LOOOOOOK SO GOOD!
That and the 18 bottles of Nativ I bought the other day has me stocked back up a bit to ~50 bottles.
I just got some more work
haha and had done my estimates on run time, which should have allowed me another couple of months easy, but now shouldn't need that
http://www.hdnwines.co.uk/ is the UK supplier apparently. They had none on the site but apparently they can get it and have made orders.
I'm off to Washington state in the summer, so will be hoping to find and ship back a selection of US wines.
Had a few nice bottles of wine recently.
- Mauro Castilla Y Leon 2006, which was absolutely lovely.
- Solitary Block Shiraz 2006. Another cracking mature Aussie red.
- Domaine Michel Lafarge Volney 'Les Mitans' 2009. Still young, but absolutely stunning. One of the nicest wines I've bought, and worth every penny. Beautiful.
Had a few nice bottles of wine recently.
- Mauro Castilla Y Leon 2006, which was absolutely lovely.
- Solitary Block Shiraz 2006. Another cracking mature Aussie red.
- Domaine Michel Lafarge Volney 'Les Mitans' 2009. Still young, but absolutely stunning. One of the nicest wines I've bought, and worth every penny. Beautiful.
Soldato
Drinking my way round Santorini in a week or so. Sounds good: volcanic soils, lots of sunshine, naturally-occuring vines.
Oh that'll be fun. As will Washington. A friend lives in Seattle and drinks a lot of reallllly nice reds from Washington.
We were there last summer (it was very hot!) and discovered Assyrtiko; clean, crisp, dry, lovely citrus but with a distinct salinity to it - lovely. I'm sure you'll try some fantastic examples.
Soldato
That's the white we are looking forward to. Apparently there are forty indigenous grape varieties. Seems hard to believe on such a small island. Nevertheless, I want to believe.
They arrived! Now I've hidden them from the wife so she doesn't randomly open them on a Tuesday while I'm not there.
So I pretty much drank all of the above wines at the weekend as we had guests over, and my god they were god. Like, really really good. My vivino got some love. A friend from the US brought over a bottle of K Vinters that is crazy rare. Was about 150CHF and 4.7 rating. Really stunning bottle, but for me the Nickel and Nickel is hard to beat. It's amazing.
Now I might need to top up :O
Now I might need to top up :O
I won a bottle of Signal Post 2017 Australian Shiraz in a charity raffle at the weekend and decided to try it last night. It was dreadful. Sour but not vinegar. If it had had a cork rather than a screw top I would have said it was corked. Okay, at that price point I'm not expecting much but it should at least be drinkable.
Soldato
Anyone tried this? @randomshenans i'm looking at you!
Pommery "Summertime" Blanc de Blancs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pommery-Summertime-Blanc-Blancs-Champagne/dp/B00PAB7JCG/ref=sr_1_107?s=alcohol&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1530197982&sr=1-107&keywords=champagne&refinements=p_76:419158031
We've moving house and i want to try something i've not had before when we get the keys, but since we have a crap load to buy i also don't want to spend a lot (sub £50 really) and this caught my eye.
EDIT - Vivino suggests it's decent. **** it i've ordered it. Might order a Bollinger too as a backup!
Pommery "Summertime" Blanc de Blancs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pommery-Summertime-Blanc-Blancs-Champagne/dp/B00PAB7JCG/ref=sr_1_107?s=alcohol&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1530197982&sr=1-107&keywords=champagne&refinements=p_76:419158031
We've moving house and i want to try something i've not had before when we get the keys, but since we have a crap load to buy i also don't want to spend a lot (sub £50 really) and this caught my eye.
EDIT - Vivino suggests it's decent. **** it i've ordered it. Might order a Bollinger too as a backup!
I have not actually... will be interested to see what you think. I'm a big BdB fan.
I don't have much Champagne in at the moment. Normally keep about 6 bottles of Cremant in, (https://www.vivino.com/wineries/bestheim/wines/cremant-dalsace-grand-prestige-2010 this stuff is our go to!) and at the price and quality, it's hard to beat. I still have Champagne every now and then. Have some Louis at home, as I feel that's always needed and a bottle of roseé Champagne that's about it. Mostly reds and a lot of gin!
I don't have much Champagne in at the moment. Normally keep about 6 bottles of Cremant in, (https://www.vivino.com/wineries/bestheim/wines/cremant-dalsace-grand-prestige-2010 this stuff is our go to!) and at the price and quality, it's hard to beat. I still have Champagne every now and then. Have some Louis at home, as I feel that's always needed and a bottle of roseé Champagne that's about it. Mostly reds and a lot of gin!
4 bottles of Nickel and Nickel just arrived, along with 8 other bottles of tasty Cali wine. My wife opened them. I'm now in the bad books. Worth it though...