Majestic £12.49 less discount to £9.99 for multiples.

Sold out online, but some stock in the stores.

Good new world pinot noir. Full style, and a tad sweet, but not overly so. 14.5 acl may put some folks off - Pity. Good and proper pinot flavour, well made, with some dung in the bouquet. No cough medicine here. Will evolve for a few years.

Selected Oregon Pinot Noir clones ! - Well what do you know ?

Recommended, not cheap, but more authentic that any NZ pn's for a tenner

Wa link

http://www.wineanorak.com/chile/vinaleyda.htm

15/02/2012

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Mr Dunc,

I had the 09 Pinot Burgundy £10 jobby at Marks at the weekend. It was so light it could have been a French bag in the box country wine for £10 a box.

Nonsense wine. Shocked at M&S.

G, which wine ? The web site does not list a generic Bourgogne. Goose, as a warning - folks who bother to read this stuff need to know which ones to avoid.

**Just about any PN from the region for the vintage in 2009, that attained the right colour, could be made into something ! Burgundy is a big area, 600 or so named domaines

** BEWARE

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Maison Du Tastelune Bourgogne Pinot Noir £9.99. It's Marks only £10 Burgundy. Winemaker Sylvain Debord. Made fron Cote d'Or fruit and aged for 12 months in French oak. ' Delicously refined and flavoursome. Complex ' too....apparantly.

I could only just tell it was red wine it was so light.

http://www.marksandspencer.com/Bourgogne-Pinot-Noir-2009-Case/dp/B000J30P3A?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_3&nodeId=44097030&sr=1-3&qid=1329995310&pf_rd_r=08DG351KV2HYRHSQHV9Y&pf_rd_m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_i=0&pf_rd_p=215485807&pf_rd_s=center-3

The 2008 won the medals and was made by the winemaker named in Marks online write up.

Goose, you're not the only one - you seem to have good pinot noir authority. What precisely does a Decanter bronze mean - No Obvious faults for a tenner, from a prestige, yet huge region ? Hmmnnn.

A load of that burgundy price will be Import tax, VAT and logistics and the cost of wages in France.

The word “Bourgogne” appears thrice on the almost-impressively dull label of this Marks & Spencer red.

What school of logic requires three instances of a word the target audience (even at their most wine-savvy) simply don’t use, I couldn’t say. We have a word for wines like this in English: Burgundy. Marketing a French wine at an English audience with the French word for an English word that’s been in common use for centuries seems daft to me.

See the rest of the article.

http://www.redwine.co.uk/france/marks-s ... inot-noir/

The name of the wine is designed to catch-out unsuspecting customers with this: CONFRÉRIE DES CHEVALIERS DU TASTEVIN.

There will be a load of watery tat coming out of the lower and flat muddy parts of Cote d'Or, probably from the extremities well east of the N74

Goose

Maison Du Tastelune - Duh !

Buy burgundy from Tom Innes or Mentzendorff if you're looking for Cote d'Or complexity, or take the ferry & car to France. Expect to pay though.

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Seems that the Maison du Tastelune whites have several good comments [Mersault and St-Romain] whilst this PN has nowt but negative remarks. Including...

A Marks and Spencer effort (which I’m, perhaps unfairly, always rather nervous of). Glowing ruby in the glass- looks good. Quite a bit of sweet fruit on the nose: some raspberry and blueberry but slightly pedestrian. Rather flat in the mouth.'

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Good link..........If I thought Marks woud allow me to post that in their reviews section I would. Majestic do allow negative comment as do Virgin ( which is the only good thing about Virgin Wines ). Marks marketing people would faint at the sight of the words thin and watery.

Oh go on, do your duty.

Problem here is that all these comments are under the heading of another wine, so few will find them.

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

Fixed - see next thread / or last thread.

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Excellent New World PN. On first opening, splash and splash in the carafe if you're finishing the bottle during the meal / evening

Good burgundy clone on day 2 - better than last time ?

On Day 3 and left in the glass to stew as you relax - This is very real and a rich lady for sure.

Majestic - Grab if the manager finds any left in the branch

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