Never seen this b4, it's not on their website and nowt on the interweb. An Antonin Rodet lovely Cotes d'Or Chardonnay. just like I remember Chardonnay. This appeared from nowhere during the 25% deal. Started off nice enough even though too cold and warmed into a classic buttery green apple and nut beauty. Ooh ooh ooh.

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This has always been a Tesco wine. It has new packaging for the 09 vintage and is now a TF wine.

I remember it exactly as you describe. Quite rich and appley.

Ba, you did very well to find that wine for £6.74. You know you did, cos not on general distribtion. Tesco clearing smaller stocks, or the wine did not make it into their ring fenced Fine wine gallery, because it did not carry the Rodet livery.

Antonin Rodet owns premier cru vineyards in Mercury, and makes one or two nice rouge wines in good years. Lean in poor ones though, so only buy when you know the vintage is ripe. This hautes cotes is probably made from friut grown by small growers further north, north east of Beaune, rather than his own domaines down south. A good season so there was a glut of good fruit. The company may have been buying vineyards, but I think they are expanding their production plant. I believe the head honcho winemaker is a madame Rodet, one of the family. It's all there on the web, if you're interested. Rodet has been supplying big T for years. I should have acquired some AR 05 Mercury 1er when on offer and before the ring fence was put up...... But we did not know it was coming.

Damn glad you got one that you enjoyed. Cote d'Or chardonnay clearly the best on the globe when on song, normally much bigger money. V. Glad you got the nutty kernel bits as well, that wine is clearly a cut above the norm.

Probably best drunk when young and fresh - would you say Ba ? Please confirm

http://www.rodet.com/fr/bourgogne-vins- ... cepage.php

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Didnt Rodet make the Sainsburys red Burg that everyone got excited about last year?

Yeah, it was a dirt cheap clearance, worked out at 4 squids with the double disco it was very very pale and a sweet little bulk number (heavily chaptalised in the weak challonaise '07 vintage) for 2 months, a luncheon number for the patio with salad and cold chicken- then collapsed into a bunch of over acidic fruitless rubbish. I drunk mine very quickly at the end. Very quickly, it was expiring like mad every week.

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Righty-ho Dunc, have retrieved the bottle. Front label says "from the southern part of Cote d'Or", and "bottled in Mercurey". Back label say "Haute de Beaune hills. 12½ % - drink within 2 yrs".

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Sounds good Ba. When does the offer end?

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Don't know when the offer ends, but would suggest your go soon. I went back today, and only 4 left - which I snaffled.

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I found the Label, but not this Wine - What This is a big Tesco

The Label is a Black Tomb Stone design, like a very amateur poster, produced on an old Banda platten machine in the sixties, reversed out white font in Universe bold.

It said white wine in smaller type in the middle of the tomb stone. How odd ? The glass was a darker browner green. Hmmnn what's going on.... put the neck of bottle up to the light.....Struth ! There is a pale Pinot Noir coloured wine in there. Picked up the remaining 4 bottles - Well what do ya know ? They are all reds !

The 25% disco for 6 pack has ended, so just checked and had a nose around their stock.

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They do a red too. Almost identical label. Someone stick on the wrong label?

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Will report to T.

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Phew ! You scared me there Dunc. Dashed off to check my cache and it's all right - all white.

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Prompt reply.

Hi Mel

We have had a labelling issue with the Hautes Cotes de Nuits which is red but has the words white wine by mistake in the middle so I presume this is the wine the reader is referring to. We have corrected the label issue but of course there may still be some stock in store as it sells through.

Hope that clears it up

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Very prompt, I'm impressed with Big T and I'm not being patronising -

Thanks Mel. It does clear it up.

On the strength of that, I shall try the Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Nuits rouge. With lovely weather conditions as they were, after the thunderstorms in June (Nuits not Beaune they say), it is hard to imagine that even the scruffy vineyards around the northern / NE edge did not make something representative & rather and immediately drinkable. Very little rot anywhere, so in theory, machine made red burgundy will be ok.

It was worth asking - Cheers Mel.

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