Wine. Do you know it?

Freefaller said:
How can they say that cheap wines are just as good as expensive ones?! :/ Don't get me wrong there are a lot of very good "cheap" wines... but there are a lot of superior wines which are a little bit dearer too.
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I agree. What a load of rubbish.

There are plenty of good wines for not a lot of money but there are a damn sight more at that price that are loaded up with flavourings, sugar and sulphites that give me a rotten head the next day.

My sweet spot is £6.50 actual price. Not price on offer or price before offer, the ACTUAL price.
 
Lopéz said:
Tell you what, I found buying wine in France difficult - your general UK preconceptions of "Fiver a bottle or so will be alright, Tenner will be nice, twenty will be very good" go out of the window.

The cheapest bottle we tried there was a €1.20 Bordeaux just to see what it was like - and was perfectly drinkable if not mind-blowingly awesome.
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Local french wine is usually very good but you can't get it over here.
No preservatives or additives, just proper good wine, it doesn't last long at all though.
 
See the problem here with threads like this, is you will get the honest people who will say such and such, and then you will get the wanna be snobs who think they know everything and say, 'if you not spending £20 on a bottle, you're doing it wrong'.

You cant go wrong with a bottle of £6 Torres.
 
I'm not sure that without being told I would know the difference between a £5 wine and a £15 one, I'd know which one I liked of course and might even be able to say why but that's about it. Maybe someday I should do a proper test and see.
 
When you consider the vast scale of additive adding that is done on a industrial level by many growers the world over then the "quality" of the wine we buy becomes almost academic.
I'm not just talking about sulphites and the like but the chemical enhancers that give the correct varietal character to an otherwise poor wine.
The New World wines have been guilty for many years of bumping up the alcohol content to give the impression that a "full wine" is being drunk.
 
I've been to a couple of wine-tastings held by Gerard Basset (number 2 sommelier in the world). They have been extremely interesting and informative. He plays a little game of 'guess the value' at the end and I've been pretty successful guessing the cheapest and most expensive but when I say cheapest, it's still a £25 bottle.

I found that on both occasions my favourite wine wasn't the most expensive. However, even the cheapest wine at one of these events knocks the socks off your standard £6 bottle from the supermarket. This is partly because Gerard doesn't serve wine you can find in the shops.

Panzer
 
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