French. White. Then red . Yeaaaaaaaah!

Normally Pinot for me but draining the last of the Kronenbourg tonight, not drinking much these days so it's going to my head

usually have one glass of sauvignon, then prefer a whisky and dry ginger.

well I am Scottish after all

Iain

I don't drink much but I'm a red wine person really, although I have started to sample rosè. We had a lovely bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape at Christmas and since then I have also downed a nice Chianti and a Rioja.

The most I have ever shelled out for a bottle is £40. It was a Stonewell Shiraz from Peter Lehmann in Australia. Smooth and exquisite.

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Tasmanian ... Of course, from the vineyard where I married

Pinot noir

We once sat down to eat at an outdoor restaurant/cafe in the Ramblas Barcelona, We chose from the wine list and the waiter ran into the nearest spar and bought the bottle
Still it was a good meal /good location, the wine was fine. I price checked later and he had only added 2 euros onto the price. fair play I say.

Fizzy wine this xmas was bouvet saumur like champagne but at a sensible price
https://www.majestic.co.uk/Bouvet-Ladubay-Saumur-zid23194

Wines from the Chenin region France taste especially good I think due to the nuclear power station plonked in the middle of the vinyards


all In all Im a European wine drinker,I find new world stuff a bit bling and fresh tasting. so If I try wine shopping in tesco I come home empty handed - they dont seem to acknowledge France as a wine producer At work
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I don't drink much but I'm a red wine person really, although I have started to sample rosè. We had a lovely bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape at Christmas and since then I have also downed a nice Chianti and a Rioja.

The most I have ever shelled out for a bottle is £40. It was a Stonewell Shiraz from Peter Lehmann in Australia. Smooth and exquisite.

http://peterlehmannwines.com/

A lady who worked for me who wasn't into wine gave us a bottle of wine (one of six) that had been given to her husband by a client. We looked it up after we'd drunk half of with a Chinese take-away and chucked the other half down the sink. She told me they had had theirs with a splash of lemonade! I save the labels of memorable bottles (which I soak off and stick to the inside of our kitchen unit doors - sad, I know). She gave me two more. One bottle I tried bringing up to room temperature quickly with a 'wine warmer' ended up tasting like mulled wine. They were all VERY expensive ! It was this one http://www.wine-searcher.com/find/basse+gi...ly/1997/uk

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I can only assume they hadn't been stored properly. :lol:

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There again it may not age very well and you now have destroyed any value in that year of that wine, someone now will have to open a bottle to to prove the vintage  my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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1. Good qual Shiraz (Oz)
2. Decent Burgundy (PN)
3. NZ Sauv Blanc ...

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand again! I love my Friday night dinners.

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Wine - one of the many reasons I moved to France. With the exchange rate going the way it is I am having to drink more to keep up!

The fizzy stuff is my main tipple - lots of it over here for silly cheap prices.  John
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My mother in law had six unopened large Bollinger champagne bottles at the back of her cupboard which have been there for years so at Xmas so we decided to open one, it was flat so we opened another and then another and so on..... All 6 had gone off. They had all been stored on their sides so it wasn't that the corks had dried out. We couldn't find any dates on the bottles but I am guessing at least 20 + years. I thought this stuff lasted for years! 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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a common mistake to make with most wines and especially anything with fizz in it!

Very top wines are made to age slowly and will improve, sometimes for many years, but every wine has a point at which it starts to deteriorate. Cheaper everyday wines don't usually have the legs for anything much more than 5 or 6 years, that will depend on how it's kept, and where.

Real shame cos Bolly is a nice champagne generally.

Since spending a month in Spain last year I've become very partial to a glass or two of Ribera del Douro - but if it's red I'll give it a go! The exception for me is Italian Sangiovese always too sharp or bitter cherry for me.

My dad was recently left around 200 bottles of vin, its basically laithwaites send every month for the last 10+ years, the total stash was around 600 bottles shared with others in the will.
As said the wines have far from improved with age, in abid to waste less he has given me a pile of them, its a lottery as to whether each bottle is for the bin, cook pot or glass At work
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