Burgundy
£8.99

Pretty good nose for this price. Plenty of lees. Very full-flavoured and -bodied. Long and much better than average.


Tesco
09/03/10

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mel

Currently £5.00 at Tesco, worth clearing the shelf at that price.

None round here...not on website either.

We dont get these store clear-out deals south of Watford. The deal is supposed to finish today - Wizz and Tribs may want to check out the N. East and N. West.

The shelves are cleared on the 1st level of disco applied Unless it's dire.

Wizz......Even supermarket Petrol is less dosh up your way !

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Duncan

The benefits of economic depravation are a £5 bottle of Chablis? Fair enough then.

Economic deprivation - The selling jobs here are only a flash in the pan Wizz: But they do come up more often. Civil service salaries and the mini professions are the same, or similar ! Only the merchant bankers make big money in the City of London, and a drop more inside the M25 ring for others. Servicing a mortgages here is totally berserk for the young ones.

Lets not go there Wizz

Enjoy your Chablis.

Chateau Thames, heavy polution and violent crime for ordinary folks round the capital !

Wizz, I'd come your way, I really like Cumberland, Northumberland, N.Yorks , all around Harrogate is beautiful and Snowdonia in the west, my Misses feels the cold. Retirement options are particularly interesting.

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Duncan

Excuse my spelling - just noticed we are depraved as well as deprived.

Can't beat N Yorks dales (for sheep and beautiful views of sheep - depravity only in the dales but that's another story).

Perhaps the city boys aren't as savvy as Dunc gives them credit !!

back from lunch run at Tesco metro with 4 bottles in my bag at a fiver a pop and another 14 left on the shelf !

Offer ends today so might stop back after work to pick up a few more

I know for sure, the stores on the outskirts where I live however will be empty of this as the locals can't resist a bargain on a name they recognise (be as producer like oyster bay or a varietal like Chablis)

so to see whether it's worth a second visit I've covertly cracked open a bottle at work (office is pretty empty bar my colleague (who is sampling with me) and one or 2 other guys)

so here I am, eating Tesco garlic stuffed olives and trying out this budget Chablis

the verdict: (drinking from a glass tumbler) I'm not a regular chablis drinker and was expecting a little more minerality (tho Mel's TN would never suggest this) slightly disappoined at first but its growing on me.
Think 4 (actually now 3) is enough for my wine rack for now

We also have a TF Yarra Valley PN 2007 (currenty discounted to 9.99) on the go too
this is even more tastey after the Chablis

I grew up in N Yorks.

Depravity?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIcj6bhiYoQ

Also this one, albeit W Yorks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eYvXfF ... re=related

There's a wine reference, although dated.

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mel

Jake Thackray - interesting videos Mel, couldn't get the 1st one to play well.

A big Thank You to Wizz. I went out again last and found 4 of these at 9:30 last night without a price tag on the shelf edge, and within a section of offers with the tesco round red offer label hanging off.

This Chablis is an unoaked ripe'ish style, is an almond green gold in the glass. I served at 10C which was best for the freshness of this wine. It is a nice Chablis on the nice '08 vintage, good subtle flavour, verty well balanced fruit to acidity and would be super with delicate white fish or scallops simply fried with minimum intervention.
I like this wine, an unpretentious chablis that tastes of subtle french kimmeridgean chardonnay. The fruit in the finish falls off fairly quickly, yet you are still left with a lingering mineral flavour of wet flints and a bit of wet pavement. A tiny stainless steel note at the end with the mineral, like sucking hard on an ss tea spoon.

For style and at 12.5 ABV, a most welcome Chablis, and as Mel says for under £9 It Is Good.
Brill value at a £5. Earns a star for a fiver, Oh yes

You are a wizz - cheers mate

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Duncan

Will look for this at lunchtime.

Is this good for keeping for a few years? (I already have plenty of Chablis in the rack, it may sit around for a while if I grab six bottles).

Oh, just saw Shezas note, offer ended yesterday....

No GK.....this is unoaked unpretentious Chablis - Fresh and refreshing is my message - drink in 12 months or so, don't risk musky age to this lovely light style

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Duncan

You may find a few hanging around early this morning. Is your store far away ?

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Duncan