Popped into two stores on route to work.
Bin end sale just starting with the red stickers again.

Picked up these two to try,

Pradera Monastrell 2010 £4.00
Villa Pani Sangiovese 2011 £4.00

One chap said they had 70k over stock !!
I need to pop in again Monday to check what he has discounted.
He had only just started when I arrived.

Hope it helps anyone passing a coop store over the weekend ??

Richard

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Found this online if it helps ?? credited to SipSwooshSpit


Last month I went to The Co-operative’s spring wine tasting. And one or two of their wines excited me. In particular a Monastrell for £4.99.
Now, it’s important to manage expectations here. If you buy this bottle of 13.5% alcohol by volume wine, £2.64 will have gone on tax. Then there are the bottling, shipping and marketing costs. The actual wine will cost well under a pound. In this case, probably less than a can of Diet Coke.
So you won’t be getting a great wine of staggering complexity for this price. But if you’re lucky, you’ll get a simple but tasty easy-drinking wine - that doesn’t just taste of fruit jam, alcoholic cordial or nail polish remover.
La Pradera Monastrell 2010, from Spain, is just that.
A purple-tinged, mid-weight soft but fresh brambly (leaf and berries) wine with a hint of cocoa-nibs and a lightly perfumed undertow. Nice lightly chilled though better, I think, after it had warmed up and sat in my glass for a while. It went quite well with roasted wild Alaskan salmon too. Didn’t clash. Stood its ground.
I was especially chuffed to find it at The Co-op just around the corner from me. At the tasting, we were told which type of stores would stock the wines. This Monastrell would only be available at The Co-operative superstores or market town stores.
I would have said mine – on a street in Shepherd’s Bush, West London – was a convenience store. I contacted The Co-operative via Twitter and then spoke to someone who promised to send me a list of stores where I could find this wine. It never arrived. But lo! The wine did…
I wonder then, come August, if the savoury, spicy Bodegas Francisco Casas Toro Camparron Crianza 2008 for £5.99 will be in my local? Fingers crossed.

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Been away - just got back.

It went quite well with roasted wild Alaskan salmon too..

Sainsbury's were doing the wild Alaskan fillets, damn sight tastier than the farmed stuff, even when farmed in a nylon mesh pen in a scottish loch. Proper flavour

I've been enjoying the drier NW pinot noirs with half decent salmon and river trout - Yum

The Leyda Valley single vineyard PN 2010 from Maj, 18 months ago, has been maturing quite nicely and authentically. Most reds will destroy a "penned off lake farmed" trout though, because the only flavour they have, is the sauce and herbs that you pour on top, so be very careful with the choice of a light red.

I'm sorry that I don't live near a mid county Co-Op where these bargains are to be found. I know what you mean about the Co-Op** red labels, last seen by me on holiday in a north Wales store, on bottles of lovely 2003 Moulis CB.

Oh well.

I dont think Ba or Mel see these ** in their neck of the country either !

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I stopped by my local - no red stickers but they had a section separated from the rest with seemingly cheap wine. A Puligny Montrachet for £14 stuck out - Jean Monnier Nosroyes 2010 - Anyone tried it?

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http://www.domaine-jeanmonnier.com/cata ... alogue.htm

http://www.domaine-jeanmonnier.com/domaine/lacarte.htm

Les Petits Nosroyes. Google the details and see what is what.

Small grower, whose family have lived in Mersault for more than two centuries. This wine could be very good indeed - authentic in style, everything points that way.

I'd snap that up if I were you. 2010 is a very good vintage, better than 09 for whites they say, "a smaller crop than '09 of and more concentrated fruit". Perhaps not ready yet, but should be wonderful in a year or two.

How can you lose at that price ? Take a few is my advice, if the 1st one drinks young (slightly closed), you know you are on to a real winner.

Good luck - enjoy the deal.

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is this the wine in question ??


http://www.corksout.com/catalog/product ... egory/323/

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Rich, it certainly looks like the one.

I got it about right with the hunch for Jean Monnier's style. Hmmn, too expensive for Co-Op customers - but at this price and the 2010 ! Yipeeee

The 2010 fruit could be more concentrated and a little riper than '08, which suits the Puligny style just fine.

I wish I'd found that PM in my neck of the woods must be just a few left over in the store - surely ?

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Yes - I saw it in the Battersea Bridge Co-Op.

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Nothing in my local store

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