Peter Lehmann Semillon 2005 £5.99 Tesco

A slow developer but really getting there now. Will be soft, mellow and very honeyed by this time next year.

Astonishing value

Jackson Estate Marlborough SB 2007 £9.99 Waitrose

Blackcurrant and nettles....age may be turning this wine golden and the acidity might be fading but the flavour is holding up superbly. Will the 2008 turn out to be so good ?

Domaine Le Perrierre Sancerre 2008 £11.99 Sainsbury

Gooseberry and nettles one minute hawthorn flowers the next. I prefer the former but classic either way

Lindauer Special Reserve NV £9.99 Waitrose

Chardonnay and pinot noir. A white sparkler that's pink in colour and tastes pink too with very subtle but moreish dry strawberry.

Lovely

Are you sure ???

Wow thats a title !!

2008 if I recall these three hit the mark,

Fizz
Highfield New Zealand NV Great bready nose and lovely creamy finish.

White
Cant remember but would have been German most prob from Karthauserhofberg Auslese 91 or 95

Red
Spilt a Segur 1970 or a modest CnDP Clos Saint Andre 1990 from Costco of all places.

Will be interesting to read others selections.
We need to post 2009 as well shortly but I have 3 excellent dinners coming up with some wine friends so the wines are usually top draw, and guess my selection would come from these !! Memory is terrible I drink to many wines !! hic

Regards

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Apols. I meant 2009. I'll just give up posting and go and sit in the corner.

G ~ thumb in mouth ..dunces cap on~

It's Friday Night - It's a foul wet night - You are forgiven my friend

Yes Goose, I knew all along about the Peter Lehmann, I've like most if not all of his "Art Series". In a good year his The Barrossa shiraz when layed down for 3 years or so, is a delight. He crafts his wines so that they are not too heavy and showey, just Well Made. I dont know any of his other wines.

The other two were introductions from you, and I like them very much.

Lindauer - yes, a bench mark in terms of price and positioning.

Good choices

The other fiz that you might have mentioned in passing, is Pelorus. Pelorus is lovely, and will see off a load of tatty sub £20 champers on the first sip. Pelorus likes some bottle age for the high bake buscuit notes to come forward.

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Dunc,

the Pelorus: vintage or NV? both on offer at maj at the mom

Shezz - Very swift, thank you for letting me know. I must get more fees out, to satisfy my hunger for stocking while they are on offer.

I have promised myself 6 x Volnay 1er 2005 as a treat for Crimble, it is lined up, so please do not hang too many temptations in front of me

Vintage is best - But - my pockets are shallow

Cheers.

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soz Duncan

this is my problem at the moment: too many offers always on and I get sucked in.

http://www.majestic.co.uk/find/keyword-is-pelorus

Been meaning to give Pelorus a go for a while and at 33% off for 2 bottles I think I'll be including some in my next order....

Whilst having zero intention of paying £13-15 on a bottle of bubbly, I have heard a multitude of good things of Pelorus and not one dissenter. Just got a vintage Frex for £6.

I picked up 4 of those Frex for just over a fiver when on offer at tescos a month or two back.
2 have been given away and yet to try the other 2....

tbf am not a massive bubbley lover anyway

A strange phenomenon. I'm not a great bubbly man, but now and then, nothing else will do. I always keep a couple to hand. Apres dentist, woman wants my body, simply p****d off, kill...whatever.

I agree with most of what you say. Not a fizz woman, but sometimes it is just the ticket, not for all of your reasons, but some.

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I can also take or leave fizz but my better half loves the stuff so have a good selection in the cellar to choose from.

Gives me another excuse to pop to a merchant for some nice reds to hide the costs !!

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My family like fizz loads, and my grandson likes M&S Oudinet demi sec - So there



when he nicked it

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