Mr G, offer runs out tomorrow night - why don't you take one ?

Ring the changes for a fiver ? Get your SB laughing gear round it ?

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I've had one. I paid £5.99. I've had nicer sub £10 Chablis. The Laroche basic 05, Tesco Chablis 05 was lovely all lemon and flint but not too flinty and one from M&S from the Chablisenne (?) Co Op.

The Ligny didn't excite me but then chardonnay rarely does. I just haven't got the taste buds.

I did like the St Veran Les Monts at M&S though. Not so good nowadays.

Wine like this also makes for a decent gift wine, (birthdays, xmas, thank-you's), particularly for the 'anything goes' wine drinker.

Pleasant tasting, nice looking bottle, a recognisable name in 'Chablis'- looks expensive

Nothing goes to waste at GK Towers.

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Good heavens, Gosling agrees with me. I bought two, and Gk's idea of a gift tells me what to do with the second.

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Four wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul.

Wind-up Time at Quaffers - rising to the bait.

Not so fast Mr Ba.
Mr G was comparing it to the great growing and maturing season through out 2005, which at the budget level, plus a combination of improvements in budget wine making did result in Chablis for '05 being the best at the price position for many decades. Same scenario with the M&S Saint Veran Le Monts, I believe

If we lay that advantage aside Fair enough

Moving on:-

GK, You paid £4.17 a bottle - You want blood out of a stone then ? I reckon you'll sign this off.

There is a bit of bottle variance, 8% varaince so far, with my more recent indugence for this trusty House white. One of them was a bit odd, and I put it down to a bottling fault - although no weeping cork or foil evidence.

At £4.75 each as a 6 pack buy in the box, I'm jolly pleased

When was Chablis with a half decent nose and flavour the same price as 2 litres of Petrol and less than Blossom Hill at some establishments ?

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I wouldn’t be too concerned about contrasting opinions Dunc, a good Chablis is subtle and understated, hence it is often underrated.

I look for a steely, clean and generous taste with definitely no greenness to it. Problem is, even today around 95% of Chablis is harvested by machine, all the fruit goes into the mix, good bad and ugly (complaints of over production follow).

If the fruit is clean, ripe and not too obvious, I will already be well on my way to appreciating it.

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This Chablis is a little bland on the first day but on the second it opens up and you get a slightly oily mouthfeel that makes you think that its a much more expensive wine. I'm wondering if Goose and Bachhus drunk it all in one sitting.

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tribs

Have corrected that for you.

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This is still going strong. Approaching a first day wine, but still better day 2. Cracking value, this was.

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Day 3 tho, and it's ruined in my opinion.

You have the Cooler, a brilliant gadjet for suspending wines with an 'a point' narrow drinking window. When on song that Ligny Chablis was near perfect for delicate charm (Decanter gold for QPR). I'm quite jealous of your cooler - even inspite of my cellar area being much better than normal.

Enjoy your fragile wines, having preserved their state, possibly three fold longer, [pretty nearly] as you want them -

Ligny on song, and exploiting marketing campaigns - the best QPR chablis for many a moon. Only beaten by GK's find, Domaine Pierre de Prehy '08 an M&S blunder.

This web site and everyone's input has saved me a fortune

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Vin Aigre for me. One down the sink, second given away.

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Ba - You didn't like any of the non Cru Chablis that were correct. The best one for the dosh an Xmas special, Domaine Pierre de Prehy '08, you took back to M&S for an exchange

So ...... don't buy it - Please

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