Wine Recommendations

Used to get wine on a fairly regular basis from Laithwaites(and before that I think they were called Direct Wines ?) until my wife passed away. Can honestly say I have never had a bad bottle from them.

Had the one you post above. Lovely. Try this one. Or better still try the mixed cases. Red, White or a mixture of both. Great value.

 
I get my wines from Newhouse & Co from Stokesley. Cheap through to expensive but never had a bad bottle. Angus usually drops a case round the next day free delivery too (y)

The Tierra Alta pinot noir is a delight and only £7.50
 
Sainsbury sells a white New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc also from the Marlborough region called River Block which is a gooseberry biased slightly more complex tasting wine of which I am a fan. It's usually £10, but if you time it on offer (around Bank Holidays etc) and get a 25% off six it is stunning value.

You can also pick up a great value bottle of Cimarosa from the same region in LIDL for under £6, but stock sells very quickly.

I got some Bristed Brothers Marlborough as a gift delivered by Laithwaites & that is lovely, but pricey & currently out of stock.
 
I have been lucky in life to have been able to visit wine estates in Martinborough and the Marlborough Sound area of New Zealand. Palliser Estates is a favourite.
Also, been lucky to visit Nicholson Ranch, Sutter Home and Mario Andretti’s vineyard in the Nappa and Sonoma Valley’s in California, the Sutter Home white Zinfandel is a nice refreshing wine.
We rode our motorcycles down to the Alsace year before last, and our hotel was in the grounds of a vineyard, where the wines were out of this world; especially the Gewurtztraminer.
 
Used to get wine on a fairly regular basis from Laithwaites(and before that I think they were called Direct Wines ?) until my wife passed away. Can honestly say I have never had a bad bottle from them.

Had the one you post above. Lovely. Try this one. Or better still try the mixed cases. Red, White or a mixture of both. Great value.

Having some lovely reds that my 90 yr old Aunt 'left' supplied by Laithwaites.
 
Try collecting wine, that’s what the shrewdies do. Gone up over 120% in 10 years - and the taxman isn’t after you! Went Up 13% last year. Read all about it, today’s Sunday Times business section. Certainly making me think!
 
Pigassou is a lovely fruity French red wine from the South of France if you can find it. About £9 a bottle.

Bor Forrás is a unique Hungarian red produced from late harvest Blaufränkisch grapes full of natural grape sugars. Easy drinking, light and fresh with summer fruit flavours of cherries, strawberries and raspberries, it can be served chilled and is known as a red wine for white wine drinkers. That is about £20 a bottle mind you, so Chateauneuf-du-pape price but even better.
 
Cannot fail with the Mc Quigan range of wine. I prefer my Red chilled, don't judge me.

Open wine and let it breath, if it's not breathing give it mouth to mouth straight away.
Chilled red? That's nowt in wine crime terms. I well remember returning from holiday in France, where I had watched people gently sipping glasses of red outside bars in sunny town squares, to a first match of the season at the Riverside. One of Teesside's sophisticates was in front of me at the bar. He ordered a bottle of red and a bottle of white ....... "and a pint glass, please". I watched as he proceeded to pour both into the glass making the Riverside's very finest rose. :rolleyes:
 
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