I would like to recommend the `Marzemino 2013` at £5 a bottle in the Sainsburys Taste the Difference range (reduced from £8).
A red wine of Italy from the Veneto region by Gianni Conti.
A very smooth and fruity wine with very little acidity.
We should build a list of good, reasonably priced wines. That’s wines less than £10.
(edited with Moggys suggestion)
By: TonyT - 8th July 2014 at 23:13
Deci Red, sold from behind the German bar in Decimmannu Sardina and decanted from a “petrol pump” into 5 gallon plastic containers, so fresh you could taste the toenails in it….. Not recommended unless you were drunk…. Very very drunk.
Here you go bob
http://www.wine-searcher.com/wine-127486-1995-bodegas-ontanon-gran-reserva-rioja-doca-spain
By: Bob - 6th July 2014 at 19:53
A nice French red – “Bergerac” – a Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon from the Bergerac region. Friends who visit France on a regular basis bring us a case or two back. It costs just over 1€ a bottle where they buy it and for that price it cannot be faulted!
Some of the bottles have a small “specially selected for Lidl” on the rear label!!!
I have quaffed some expensive red wines and this is just as good IMO…
Scale on bottle shows it as a 1 (dry)…
I had a 1995 Ontañón Reserva Rioja at a top eatery in Vegas in January – very smooth and pretty pricey (after markup!) – Tempranillo grape.
http://www.klwines.com/detail.asp?sku=1109369
I tracked down a 2004 vintage here in UK and have had one bottle and stuck one away until it is of an equivalent age!!! Hopefully the wait will be worth it!
http://www.allaboutwine.co.uk/shop/details/6048/65/red/spain/rioja/ontanon-rioja-reserva
By: Moggy C - 6th July 2014 at 17:16
Great idea, I’d love to help, but being we are just two and a half hours from Dover it is very unusual for us to buy wine in the UK.
It might be a good idea to note the grape variety as it gives a good idea of the likely taste envelope.
Moggy
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July 6, 2014 at 4:54 pm