Very different to last year's full bodied wine that bordered on the corrosive.

Light and floral almost spicey, like a watered down gewurz.

Most odd and a bit girly.

Keep the wine, send me the girly.

I get a little confused with all these "Wairau" varieties. Had some of this last night and really enjoyed it. Not as dominating as some, but if that's "girly" then I like girly.

2009 up and running now. 2 for £10. Why are you still sat there? Even better than the '08. Class for £5. Bottled in Manchester, but celebrated in Leeds as well.

This is a dream wine for Tesco. It costs about 50p to buy plus about 10p/bottle in costs. It sells for £10 for about 2 months and £5 for the other 10.

People love it because it's from a famoua wine making area but tastes nothing like the wines of that area.

Someone said of the 08 it's lovely it tastes French. Yea like a £2.99 Lidl Vin de Pays de Plonk.

It is a crap crap wine. But sooooooooo profitable for Tesco that they can afford to keep selling JE online to lovers of proper Marlborough sb for just £7/ bottle.

Lovely !

JE double O seven is still bloody marvellous.

It will again be on my 2010 pre £10 favourites, unless something spectacular happens.

Goose, I've tried just a few MSB's... and now ..... I know enough to tell.

We shall see if 2009 MSB - does infact cut the mustard. You will do all the work - and I will pick

Thank you most kindly good Sir.

Me

I would enjoy watching you chaps struggle through a blind tasting of MSB.

"Oooo, the blackcurrant, it must JE!!!"
"Nope, thats the Cottesbrook."
"Oh, its this one!"
"No, that's a Merlot........"

Seriously, what should we be drinking? Granted, JE is nice, so was the last Reach I had.

Lets have a top 5 please.

And then we could organise an online with the agreed no1, yes?

Are there any threads on this site that don't include reference to MSB at some stage? I think not.

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mel

hahah.
It is becoming a common chat but is harsh to say every chat becomes MSB related

Afterall, we have a member who has named himself after his love of the stuff.
so it is not surprising we are going to have a high volume of threads relating to his passion especially as it has rubbed off on a few of us...

It has rubbed on me - I came looking for an sb education - I asked for it, remember ! - thhhwackkkk .

Good Sir, Mel and Shez the tbf man, GK you have named two of them above, particularly on the '07 vintage (see Dunc's faves' L'yr)

Any forum worth it's salt has to have a raving SB nutter - Right - thhhwackkkk

I like to keep our resident *SB guru well primed, otherwise we waste a lot of time doing the spade work ourselves

Don't knock him. With all this snow, we might not get another SB report for months Goose calls in snow ploughs for Cardiff

OK ok ok ok........

Now back to beautiful Rioja - only one problem - the good'uns have to be sought-out, and then sort-out, vintages and makers are uniquely important for benchmark crianza - a load of work in sorting that out.
Rioja is a semi private thing for real lovers of the style. GK - I now know that you are one, you never said properly before - Why not ? Perhaps I missed it....too much other stuff in the way

There you go - I've not said the M thing - We are due a foot of snue - after clear-up time calls for an xmas malt - Yes

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Duncan

Had a couple of slugs of the 109 proof Pusser's rum the other night. That is an animal. Great for the inner warmth though.

Truth is my friend, I’ve been hanging around wine sites & forums for longer than I care to remember, I even had my own website once, bet ya didn’t know that, eh? Mel may remember it..., its all a bit fuzzy now, anyway, I digress, what was my point, oh yes, I have got to the stage where I don’t always take things as serious as I maybe should. I gave up writing TN's and now work from memory. I forget what I had at the weekend but remember what a TTD '01 Coonawarra Cab tasted like four years ago.

Is it Spring yet? I miss my allotment, damn snow.

What was your site called?

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mel

You sound like a cross between Malcolm Gluck ( ex website but no longer taking things seriously ) and Monty Don.

Winter soup for evening meal tomorrow. I can't find a swede anywhere. Can't spare one can you. And no I don't want Ulria ka ka

myredwines.co.uk

I took it down a couple of years ago, it was a wine info and a blog type thing, babbling on about recent finds, bargains, events, whatever, a bit tongue-in-cheek. I couldn’t find the time to run it the way I wanted to, so, being a bit of a perfectionist, I gave up.