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
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.eceFor 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