Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot

Posted by: naim_nymph on 30 August 2012

For the past few weeks now it’s been time I restocked my empty cellar with nice drinkable red wine, but being a skin-flint I’ve put the usual 3 dozen bottle order to the local wine merchant off while buying just a bottle of wine from Tesco’s each week instead, ...and trying something different every time but I’ve come to realise the Tesco’s stuff is almost never enjoyable. [Own silly fault I never learn].

 

Last week I purchased a bottle of Argentinean Red [Shiraz] which was particularly nasty for £9.99 so I guess we haven’t been forgiven for the Falkland Islands yet.

 

So, any recommendations for Red Wine under £10 and preferably in the Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot flavour?

 

I’m really hoping rodwsmith will help me out here, the Chilean concha y toro was fantastic at the price for a while, a recommendation from a couple of years ago but this same wine seems less fun now, so is there something else out there that has better form?

 

Earlier this year I had some luck with a couple of California Red wines in Sainsburys, but after a retry with the same labels it didn’t taste quite as nice again. The first time may have been a lucky batch?

 

Debs

Posted on: 31 August 2012 by naim_nymph
Originally Posted by totemphile:

You forgot a bottle of Herederos del Marques de Riscal Rioja Reserva 2006

 

It's not like your usual Rioja at all....


My local wine merchant doesn't seem to have that one : (

although they have a range of 27 different Spanish still red wines which do look very tempting.

 

But don't forget this is the UK overtaxed, overworked, underpaid and ripped off, and a nice bottle of Rioja Reserva of 2006 vintage would probably be far more than my price target area.

 

Hope you feel sorry for us!

 

Debs

Posted on: 01 September 2012 by mista h

We get thru a bottle of red with EVERY meal.(except b/fast). Provided your not a wine snob i would check the internet to see if you have an Aldi in your neck of the woods,as this will save you a fair bit of cash.

For everyday drinking try their Spanish award winning red...Toro Loco around £3.50,also try their Rioja...Baron Amaricco @ around £5.00.

Mista H

Posted on: 01 September 2012 by naim_nymph

I can’t afford to be a wine snob!  

 

One of my colleague-friends shops in his local Aldi [not far from where he lives but not in my neck of the woods], and he’s also very partial to nice bottle of red so I’ll ask him to investigate. He'll enjoy that.

 

Thank you mista h

 

Debs

Posted on: 01 September 2012 by winkyincanada
Originally Posted by naim_nymph:
 

But don't forget this is the UK overtaxed, overworked, underpaid and ripped off, and a nice bottle of Rioja Reserva of 2006 vintage would probably be far more than my price target area.

 

Hope you feel sorry for us!

 

Debs

I found wine to be very competitively priced in the UK compared to Australia (provided you didn't want to drink Aussie wines - and why would you?!).