I have received this:

Look !!! Do NOT believe your wine report about Aldi Budavar Chardonnay .I have honestly found it so refreshing like a springtime mountain air perhaps ;everything one would like at this time of the year and did not go looking for your website but wished to find out about mountains in Hungary so went on Wikiipaedia =nothing much so did a search on the wine and up came your website with a report about this wine smelling of "wet dog" and having a sachharine taste which it does not have ,.It smells so fresh and to my mind is a perfect ,absolutely perfect "after -Christmas and looking forward to spring " It is bottled in Germany and might have needed german technology and experitise to find the exactly demanding type or colour of glass to perfect it - what it is wine -it must be Jesus at top of a mountain . This wine is perfect and i think it is definitely a female wine .-quite alcoholic but not too much so ie it is 11point 5% by volume =not as much as 14% so it is suitable for a lady which i am trying to be more female NB i have been ill really ill and do not want to meet anyone off this website -just wish to tell you that you are wrong oh so WRONGabout this wine There is absolutely No saccharine and NO wet dog smell or taste to this tremendous ladues wine .


x x x

I don't think I need to add anything to this tasting note. Will buy it next time I'm there and re-taste. Will report back. m

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mel

Shall we have an online tasting?

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/product_r ... 4_3426.htm

Book a date for the end of this month, gives us time to source the wine?

Brilliant, GK, brilliant.

Can everyone get some by Sunday 24th Jan? 7pm?

Perhaps we should get something good as well and do a double tasting.

Thoughts?

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mel

Im out at a family event on the Sunday, I can do the Sat 23rd or Friday 22nd, or other date as agreed.

Second wine, something similar but more upmarket? Unoaked Chard? I guess Hungary is technically Old World but I suspect this is made in a NW style.

As we will be in Aldi buying the Budavar, how about this too?-
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/product_r ... 4_5998.htm

Why not?

I have a wine writing friend staying for the weekend, so the Sat might be ok for me, but we would naturally aim a little higher for a girls' night in.

Or 31st?

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mel

Err....count me out of this.

My nearest Aldi is 30 miles away and I have no intention of going on a 60 mile round trip to buy a wine from a grape that I mostly do not enjoy from a region with no reputation for producing good wines from that grape, sold by a wine merchant with a reputation for cutting quality at a far greater rate than it cuts prices in order ( for the most part ) to create the illusion of value. A wine that our resident MofW has rated as poor and whose only recommendation is from a rather dodgy sounding emailer.

It''ll be Blue Nun tasting sessions organised by Spammers next.

Oh yes.

You'll be within ¼ mile of one this evening Mr. G. The clodhoppers have put a heated tent over the pitch for you.
Even though the note probably came from Aldi HO, I'm willing to fall for it. Get some spare ribs while I'm there as well.

Of course you have a point Goose but it was meant to be a bit of a tongue-in-cheek exercise. We're not expecting to like the wine.

However, I wouldn’t travel that far for it either.

We'e not leaving until 3pm just in case of a lunchtime postponement.

Very windy here and bitterly cold hope it's warmer in Brizzle.

Btw the game is live on S4C which should be free on Sky or freeview. You can watch us freeze.

I know you were just joshing, GK. But i'm preparing to face a constant stream of anti Welsh abuse off 10,000 Englishmen, I needed to work up a bit of grumpyness in order to be stroppy enough come kick off time to shout some Anti English abuse back.

I'm such an easy going, passive sort that I need hours to prepare.

If you come up the river from Avonmouth and climb onto the flyover system, you'll pass within 100 yds of me in the air-conditioned club. Temp zero, wind SE 15 mph. Rain this afternoon, poss snow later. Just perfect for standing around on terraces for a couple of hours. My thoughts will be with you.

Cheers for that Goose - You have kindly got us out (or the possibility) of dumping £2.99 on a wine that may end up in David Jones's locker. Sorry GK - despite an emotional plea from a sincere Aldi customer, I'd rather you tried that Hungarian gem 1st Your opinion is sought. I could only find Mel's opinion of the Budvar Merlot

GK - The Aldi Macon though, was rather more tempting: Henri Di Horgere Macon Villages - do we know which vintage it was ?

Whilst talking Chardonnay:

Following a conversation with my WA last week, Laithy/STWC sent me two of these samples to try - I'm quite interested to see intelligent use of ingredients, what can be done with good Chilean fruit ('07 vintage twas good) and decent and deft use of french oak - they said. Los Ganeros vina established in 1949, a family firm, the vines are not young...they say

http://www.sundaytimeswineclub.co.uk/DW ... =prod26872

Will report on this later in the week.

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Duncan

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted Mel.

It's open to all takers

Give it a whirl kind Sir - I'd be interested to see if you and Mel come to a similar conclusion. You will be wiser.

The only condition for the Budavar Open, will be that all contestants are required to drink the whole bottle at (lets be fair) three sittings. You may wish to describe any changes in quality and flavour during the 3 day event.

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Duncan