Culverhouse Cross in Cardiff.

2x Domaine Perriere Megalithe Sancerre 2006 £6.99
3x JE Grey Ghost 2008 £7.49

M&S just opposite has brought back the Saint Veran Au Mont. Loveliest unoaked chard on the planet. 2008 £8.99.

The 07 was awful.

I cried.

gooseberry-scented tears, no doubt.

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mel

Culverhouse Cross in Cardiff.

2x Domaine Perriere Megalithe Sancerre 2006 £6.99
3x JE Grey Ghost 2008 £7.49


We - lucky blighter - proper 50% disco.

Nout like this in Stroud or Reading....ever.

Must be something (which is not connected to) sheep & steel...oh yes, and rain.

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Duncan

That's indecent, nothing like that around here. 20p off an Echo Falls 'cos the label is dirty is the best that we get.

The 08 JE GG got 90 from Bob and the 07 just 82.

Btw....he's not happy with the 09 Stich. Just 83 and talk of tannins and grainy textures.

Oooh err

The 06 Megalith Sancerre is oaked. A drinker or a keeper, Dunc ?

My sources say now - 8 yrs

As I've said before, get off at J14 of M5 and head for Cam. The Tesco is in a not particularly great area and often has good wine with nice yellow stickers.

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mel

A classic judgement of the resulting oaked wines would be contrary to Bob's scores for these consecutive years, when made by the same producer.
For French chardonnay, white burgundy at the Village level, one would expect and know, that the fuller, more concentrated and riper fruit would marry with french oak in a more harmonious way. For greener or more hollow fruit, the addition of french oak can result in an astringent wine, because the oak can take skinny fruit away, and produce a hard mouth to the wine as it ages.

With SB, I have no real experience - I just applied the usual rules for judging the outcome for lovely or easy *half decent white burgundy (*not a rule of thumb for 1er or above which holds much longer due to concentration and oak quality).

The oaked mega Sancerre may keep on the '05 for a while, But for 2006/2007 SB Loire fruit, I would have said - drink up. I don't know how oaked the Perrier is, but knowing how full '05 Pouilly Fume' was, and how well even budget ones kept, and then, knowing how racey '06 Sancerre was deliberately made (fashionable) I wouild not recommend keeping for more than 3 months more.

We dont know what shelf conditions were like in Tesco - drink-up Goose and enjoy your bargain

For the Grey Goose '08 ..........good till end 2012 in proper conditions ? Anyone ? I need to taste it. Grey Goose fruit is different than Stich ? sorting tables for GG ? Special plots for the premium marque, picked later ?

Goose - You tell us when you've tried it - Please

Te Koko goes on, and on - I have seen the '04, dusty, undistubed and neat, in large wooden x 12 cases in Majestic just before Xmas at bigger money £29. This Te Koko had been looked after. £29 if memory is good.

Rober Parker - Te Koko '04 $64 USD

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Duncan

Might just be up that way this w/e. Veg & stuff from the nick, possibly Slimbridge as well.

Im battling the buy, I want this, its a good price....
http://www.tesco.com/wine/product/detai ... =256469788

Fab port, nice bottle too, I use it for my sloe gin.

...and personalised

Missed the post about the nick. Would have come and joined in.

Did you manage Slimbridge. A friend and I are going to see the starlings. Google them. The next couple of weeks, at dusk. Sounds brill.

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mel

Saw the starlings on tv. Made it to Slimbridge but only to the Tudor Arms, not the WWL centre.