Bacchus wrote:
I was asked by a friend to choose and buy 2 doz. red & 2 doz. white for his special occasion BBQ with a budget of £10 per bottle. Unaccustomed as I am to wines at this price, I decided to use this oppotunity to treat myself. The whites I could handle but I tried 6 different reds at around this price. This did not make the top 3, or top 5 for that matter. Harsh, tannic, and it took me back to 70's Bordeaux in plastic bottles. Bah!
You're not useful to your mates then ?
Waitrose bordeaux superior has been indifferent at best in recent years. I think their wine buyer has lost the plot on the left bank for these afforable clarets. May be he gets taken for a ride when on buying trips ? The last one of theirs I tried was gum numbing, and needed fatty food to dissipate an astringent tannic finish. Perfectly good B.Superior can be bought at Le Clerc or any other decent SM for 3.5 to 5 Euros. What are they playing at ?
This is one for GK.
Chateau Lachesnaye, Haut-Medoc, Cru Bourgeois 2003 - Chateau bottled at Cussac - Fort Medoc. 50% Cab et 50% Merlot.
This is a distress parcel at Majestic, just in, and on the french label, discounted to £7.99 each for a brace.
Light Haut Medoc style, very ripe sweet friut, light oak, a bit of fig, a little vanilla and cigar box, and "half" a black forest cherry and ripe fresh figgy nose. Mature and clear in the glass, drink now and over the next 12 months I'd say - Majestic say longer
I have a mature fig tree, so I know what overipe dark brick crimson falling figs smell like - OK
Great week-end luncheon claret, or early evening with a lighter supper, very drinkable and easy on its own, lovely with ordinary cheddar and biscuits or oatcakes, cold chicken legs or cold pork sandwiches. Yum. I'm not putting the wine into a QO heading, it might get snapped up, before I pick-up some more.
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