http://www.majestic.co.uk/find/keyword-is-Bargain+Hunt

Some nice deals here - Also some wines that aren't appearing on their official Hunt page. Like the Vouvray Moelleux at £5 off per bottle http://www.majestic.co.uk/find/keyword- ... t-is-05378

Also Roberson's biggest ever sale if you want something a bit spesh.
http://www.robersonwine.com/offers/biggesteversale

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I enjoyed another bottle of the Chateau Mont Milan over dinner last Sunday, pretty good at the £5.99 offer price.

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Cheers Viog,

For me though, you found the ultimate bargain at the Co-Op with that Puligny - A few luxuries don't go amiss.

However the 2005 Mount Pleasant Elizabeth Sem is / or was a very nice wine. Sem without oak on 2005 - how well is it holding ? Anyone ?

Of the Bourillon d'Orleans offer, that is a half bottle Viog, do you know this wine ? I do like botrytis chennin, the Vouvray Moelleux has increased considerably in value since I bought the very heavy 75cl bottles of '03 and couple of the '05, So for once in my life
I opened an '03 in Xmas '09 or was it '10, the wine still not developing a lot of complexity at 5 + years at that point (good for 30 years they say). So, the 2010/11 offer at Maj may not over excite us ! For quite a while....

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2007 and 2008 Potel Meursault for £14 at mine. Bought one of each.

Bugger....on the 08 at least. ( Mel's note )

Meursault 1er cru Les Bouchères, Nicolas Potel 2008

13%, 11 months in French oak. £24.99

Quite a restrained nose for Meursault and certainly not as openly inviting as the St Aubin. Very oaky and you’d want to wait a bit. The oak’s in control and the fruit is forward but it hasn’t yet become wonderful.

Oh well, more presents to give away.

been so busy with work I've not been able to get on here this week so hadn't seen the co-op updates from you guys

However, i happen to have just returned home from my co-op which has a lot of bin ends
I picked up 4 of the potel les boucheres 2008 and 2 Domaine des Beaumont Morey-Saint-Denis 2007 (mel rated the 2008 highly in her laithwaites tasting @ £30)

Others on offer:
Christophe Pichon Condrieu 2001 @ £9 (probably past it?)
Rene Lamy chassagne Montrachet 2008 @ £14
Claude chinon Meursault 2005/8 @ £8.24 (mouldy labels and couldn't find anything online about this)
Nicolas Potel Santenay 2008 @ £7

Hi Dunc,
The MPE is holding well, still waiting for it to develop tho
A fair amount of citrus note still comes through which I'm hoping will mellow out to something a bit more honey & nutty
Still being reviewed well in CT but for the moment I prefer Peter Lehmann 2005 Semillon

If tempted, hold out until next Tesco 25% off as it normally retails for £9.29 so can be bought for £6.97

Have one in the fridge for this evenings fish supper and movie night, will let you know.

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I did take a car detour to a bigger Co-Op at 9:00 this morning in the freezing rain - needed to give the car a run, no traffic

There were no red or white burgundies Shez, and I would have picked up that £7 Potel '08 santenay and that meursault for £8.24, for that matter ! .

Very weird Clearance pricing strategy - Co-op only seem to have the numbers £7 or £14 square red stickers to stick on the bottles for the clearance shelves - Crazy.

All these wines had £7 red squares on them !!

I bought the one and only chat Fonreaud '03 Listrac, and just 1 Le legende de Fonreaud '07, to see if their Listrac hillock was not quite so badly affected by a very long and rather dull growing season as most of the flat Medoc ....at petite chat level.

1 of the Brocard Chablis that Goose said was textbook - Cuvee Les Hauts de Prehy '09 .... dunno if its been stored next to a fan heater
2 generic Chateauneuf '09, typically a bit hot at 14% alc, but heck, a 7 quid punt ! None of the easy '09 CNdPs 'ave been 'orrid - Yet ! Just looked it up - producer: Les Grandes Serres, Châteauneuf-du-Pape - I'm a bit lucky here, fruity style and gets a decent review of 89.

And finally a novelty odd ball for me:-

One "Steak House" 2006 Washington, Mattawa, Columbia Valley cab for £5 - never had a 6 year old Washington cab before ! For a fiver - who knows ? Picked it as only 13% so that's half a start at least.

Steak House - west coast 100 cab

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The santenay was a blanc btw Dunc so wasn't too sure about picking any up

Good you got the last fonreaud. I'd have picked up any bottle if mine had some in
And the Washington can sounds interesting

With regards to those of you finding these coop bin ends, have they only been in large stores that tend to have fine wine sections or are the distributing them all over ?

I opened one of those Steak House Cab's the other week. I'm not too sure of the vintage but it was one of either '06, '07, or '08. I picked it up on one of the previous Co-op new year bin ends. Either last year or the year before. It had a £3 square red sticker on it .

It's nice enough. An easy drinker, low on tannin and body. Much as the review on that website. No real complexity though.

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You did well for 3 knicker U could'ave warned me ! Haha, At least we know more stuff. If I get what you got Mr T, I'll be 'appy enuff for a fiver. The savigs on the cru B. claret and that CNdp will cover it.

There is some, maybe a load that we avoid, of dire immature & over alcoholic cab out there, for a lot more than a fiver.

Evens, Winners & Losers.

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There aint nowt wrong with that santenay Shez, see my previous post talking to Goose about Co-Op bin ends in deepest Sheep country ! last October. 7 quid is a proper bin end. 50% off cr*p is just twice as much cr*p for your money.


Is it this one ?

Shez, have you tried the legende de Fontreaud Listrac ? a new cuvee, but not the grand vin, nor the 2nd wine either ? D'ont know it. Should I go by that Co-Op again, there were three more.

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Yes, that's the santenay Dunc. Inoffensive reciew from WD, Perhaps I should look at getting a couple...

Can't say I've seen the 07 legende ever before, I was referring to the 03 cb fonreaud we've both had previously
Prob worth picking them up if still there and trying one. If no good return the other bottles unless it's a distance for you

The santenay is more my scene that yours Shez, you know that of course.

The youtube vid for Fonreaud and more particularly their site, just suggest that the legende wine is made from grapes grown on slopes that are out of the Listrac CB denominated climat. They will have to wait till September 2014 to see if it complies with the revised CB rules.

** Blows a bit of petrol out. I'll try it next - and use the phone if it's good value

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