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Author:  Goosegogs [ Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:48 pm ]
Post subject:  McQuitty of the Times again
I have given her some grief this year. Verdant this verdant that blah blah etc.

So, by way of adding some balance here's her top 100 winter wines. Top reds and whites under £25 £12 £8 and £6

Scroll down..left hand side

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 914523.ece
Author:  Duncan [ Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: McQuitty of the Times again
[quote="Goosegogs"]I have given her some grief this year. Verdant this verdant that blah blah etc.

So, by way of adding some balance here's her top 100 winter wines. Top reds and whites under £25 £12 £8 and £6


Don't care about the blah blah blah stuff

You're spying on my brouser activity :evil: remove that link immediately :wink:

I have selected two reds in the sub £25 that I'm damn well having for laying down. With sterling going down the pan versus the Euro, you know where I'm heading - and damn quick before it's gone.

Have a good week end Goose, see ya

PS - Enjoying a very tidy 2005 Chablis just now from Bichot, Dom Long-Depaquit. The've all gone out, so I have it too myself 8)
Author:  GK [ Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: McQuitty of the Times again
I tasted a Rueda on Friday evening, the nose was exactly like a NZ SB, if I had to call it blind on the nose only I would have sworn it was.

There are some wines listed in JM's report that offer excellent QPR. Then again, are there any really poor wines on the shelfs these days? I mean really bad?
With modern winemaking the way it is, it cant be easy to make a bad wine and have it purchased by a experienced buyer to get it on a UK shelf.
Author:  Duncan [ Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: McQuitty of the Times again
GK wrote:
There are some wines listed in JM's report that offer excellent QPR. Then again, are there any really poor wines on the shelfs these days? I mean really bad? With modern winemaking the way it is, it cant be easy to make a bad wine and have it purchased by a experienced buyer to get it on a UK shelf.


Exactly so GK - You've also been spying on my web browser :wink: I think google learns our geo-caching methods for info.

A Hugh Johnson report this month in the Times 11/11/09 that echo's your thoughts, I'll see if I can find it in browsing history: Are yes, here we go - Vintage snobbery and bizzare prices

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 848089.ece

For myself, at the affordable end of red burgundy and claret, you can cellar out some of the faults, or evolve a rounder wine in the short, and also in the medium term, if you THINK, you could know, what you are doing.
Christmas offers in the supermarkets, for folks to grace their tables with the right labels are massively discounted. Hopefully we, or I pick off the right ones, for future drinking. For example - I shall put a 2001 (a good'un) or 2003 (a fat one) or 2005 (a cheaper one) of CNDP on the table at Christmas for the family, this wine culled from past years, when on offer - I won't put '07 on, until it's ready (IMHO)
Nuff said
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