***The Wine Thread***

Picked up some wine last night. I snuck one box to the basement before the wife noticed, but 2 of them she did ha
I just used the whole "you don't like drinking **** wine!" which kinda shut her up a little.

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Among the collection, was 6 Nativ Blu, and 12 Golds. I already have about 10 Red Nativs still in the basement. These are a must try if anyone hasn't. Not had the gold yet, but the ratings are even better than the Red, which is stunning.

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Had the Gold one last night and it was superb. Smell is like chocolate and coco, thick and dark in appearance, but it's not as heavy as the Red Nativ. It's still a big wine with bold ripe fruits, yet it has a really nice balance to it. It's not too thick in the mouth and finishes drier than the others, but has a nice subtle finish.

It got a Randomshenans 4.5 stars.
 
I found a german place through vivino that I get mine from. I have a PO box in germany and so it's free delivery! Makes it so easy.

I'm not massively into my whites at the moment, unless it has bubbles in it, but big reds... I can definitely help there. Basically any of the links in the last 2 pages? They're all big, full bodied fruity reds, with a nice balanced finish.

I had a bolgeri tonight... it wasn't bad, it just didn't stack against the Nativ gold I had prior to it. It gets a 3.8 on vivino, but I had to give it a 3.5 (damn their rating being like that) as it just didn't stack up in character to others I had.

https://www.vivino.com/users/ross_jon/wines

Check out some of those for reds though on my vivino.
 
I have Ahleckz on vivino now, how are you Skeptic, what's your name on there?

I had a tried and tested Sir Passo 2015 last night, good week day drop.

Had a nice Zollo Primi night before, which is stunning value. I'm now #1 in France for Primitivo ratings lol Saying that, I've moved up to 75th in the whole of France overall. Life goals.

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/sir-passo/wines/sangiovese-toscana-2015
 
Haha yes! In italy? Come on, that'd be good...

Just ordered more. Dammit. I picked up 6 of the 62 :o but then thought **** it and got 6 of the 60 as well and 6 Zollas as it was 9euros a bottle and I think I keep drinking them (they're such good value!) and then some others :/

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B008SKDMN6/ref=pe_386171_38075861_TE_item

3 of those as well! I got them all from amazon.de in the end! I think over 25 bottles it was 5.90 delivery, so can't complain and the prices were very good as well.
 
Marvt74;30492413 said:
Not easy to get hold of in most supermarkets though. I did also buy some Prosecco which was fairly dry.

I need to stock up on more everyday fizz, have only got a few decent bottles in and didn't really want to open them.

The only Cremant i know on the high street is the Aldi one and i've always found it dissappointing.
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I can ship you some crates if you like :p I can get a decent 3.5 star cremant for about 5.50Eur and a reallly nice 4 star for about 10.

Trouble with Ice wine in general is, that whole process of extraction means it retains more sweetness from the grape, so you will always get a much sweeter wine. I don't get that trend. Give me dry any day.
 
I had some nice bottles over the weekend:

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/l-aventure/wines/optimus-2014

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/e-garantita/wines/due-viene-di-coco-2013

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/conte-di-campiano/wines/primitivo-di-manduria-2015

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/borsao/wines/zarihs-syrah-2013

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/us-689-six-eight-nine/wines/7288304-napa-valley-red-2014

https://www.vivino.com/wineries/san-marzano/wines/62-anniversario-riserva-di-manduria-primitivo-2013

Got through 2 bottles of the 62... it's just such a nice wine. Saying that, the 689 is well up there, too. I'd really recommend that to anyone who likes those big reds.

The 2015 Primitivo I had was nice... but didn't quite pack the same hit of some of the others I've had.

L'Adventure was a bloody lovely bottle. Really really nice. I can recommend that, but it comes at a cost.
That can be said for the GB Crane El Coco - but again, that's a real price on that one at $75 a bottle. Really interesting blend though. Nice balance and depth across it and you can pick up the characteristics of each one.
 
Not at all, if I can sort out a decent priced courier at like 10-15 a case, it'll still be very much worth it. You won't get it over there, or anything close for the price.

Let me look into a courier tomorrow and see what I can find. A lot of the things I find in France are about 239720372 euros to get some lazy french gob****e off his arse to post something.
 
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