Wine Tasting Video: Spanish Reds – Manchuela, Yecla & Priorat
Cien Y Pico ‘Doble Pasta’ Tintorera 2009, Manchuela (£11.99 Liberty Wines) Really can’t work out whether I like this wine. I can’t fault its richness – it’s full throttle, deep inky wine packed with slightly baked/jammy dark berry fruit, b...
Wine Tasting Video: Valpolicella – the perfect summer red?
Alpha Zeta V Valpolicella 2011 (£8.99 Noel Young Wines, Stainton Wines, Corks Out, Richard Granger Wines, Noble Green Wines, Flourish & Prosper, Dalling & Co, Valvona & Crolla) Crunchy young style, has succulence, bite, notes of raspberrie...
Wine Tasting Video: Oregon Pinot Gris
A to Z Oregon Pinot Gris 2009 (£12.49 Bibendum) Simple, honest glugger, slightly candied peach and pear flesh and a pumice-like terroir edge to add interest, but just a little bland. B WillaKenzie Estate Pinot Gris 2010, Willamette Valley (£22 The Wi...
Wine Tasting Video: Assorted Reds – Marzemino, Mencia, Bonarda & Pinotage
Taste The Difference Marzemino delle Venezie 2010, Veneto, Italy (£5.99 Sainsbury’s) Pale and very interesting, with joyful red berry and red cherry fruit and a touch of marzipan, classic chillable summer red, and a great price. S- Encanto Mencía R...
Wine Tasting Video: Assorted Whites – Picpoul, Godello, Weissburgunder, Marsanne
Tesco Finest* Picpoul de Pinet 2010, Languedoc, France (£7.29 Tesco) Fresh clean style with a bracing marine tang, combines a fleshy peachiness with firmer, tauter apple and citrus flavours, and a leafy finish. B+ Crego e Monaguillo Godello 2011, Mont...
Wine Tasting Video: Southern Italian Whites – mostly…
Terredora Coda di Volpe 2010, Campania (£10.95 Jeroboams) Rich yet lively style, combines plush honeysuckle and peach fruit plumped up by creamy, nutty notes with a more floral zesty purity and freshness. S(-) Bisceglia Terra di Vulcano Falanghina Ben...
Wine Tasting Video: White Wines from Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and England
Hilltop Estates Cserszegi Füszeres 2011, Neszmélyi, Hungary (£5.75 The Wine Society) Gewürztraminer in training, but more Italian than Alsace in style, has the lychees and ginger, fresh, dry and with a hop-like bite, OK, but lacks a little magic. B...
Wine Tasting Video: New Zealand Pinot Noir – Marlborough
Second video of a set of NZ Pinots I tried recently – the first featuring wines from Nelson, Martinborough and Central Otago is here. Yealands R3 Pinot Noir 2011, Awatere Valley (£12.99 Marks & Spencer) Youthful style, almost Beaujolais-like...
World Malbec Day – with an English accent…
April 17th 2012 is the second World Malbec Day – or Malbec World Day, as the website has it. To celebrate this, some bright sparks thought it would be a good idea to ship some Malbec grapes from the 2011 vintage over to the UK to see how a Englis...
Wine Tasting Video: Chardonnay & Chardonnay/Viognier blends – England, Chile, Australia
Chapel Down Chardonnay 2010, England (~£14 – ’09 is current vintage, but ’10 should be available from chapeldown.com, slurp.co.uk, Majestic) (from vineyards in Kent, Sussex & Essex) Pale and very interesting style, quite bracin...
Wine Tasting Video: New Zealand Pinot Noir from Nelson, Central Otago & Martinborough
Another video featuring some Marlborough Pinots is here. Nelson Pinot Noir (Seifried) 2010 (£9.99 Marks & Spencer) A strange mix of stewed and raisinny fruit with the bitter green edge of underripeness of both fruit and tannin, rather scrawny fini...
