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EckoZero wrote:Good wine?

I haven't had any truly good wine for a while now. Any you can recommend for me? (Trying to keep the price under £20... I'm a poor student you see...)


[edit] Sorry this post might seem like I'm taking the mick. I'm genuinely not [/edit]

M&S Pinot Noir. Good fruity red and £6.99 a bottle. Nice easy drinking red. Highly recommended and good value for that variety.

bitsnpieces wrote:I really enjoyed a certain old wine. I don't know the name of it or if it was just kept down the cellar a long time but it was sweet. Rather than the wine tastes you have today, this one was sweet and very very nice whilst providing that warm feeling that modern wines do.

Could it have been a (Hungarian) Tokaji/Tokay? Either that or a fortified wine like sherry or port? Here's a page about ozzie sweet wines http://www.wineaustralia.com/global/Win ... .aspx?p=35

Good luck finding it again.

I'm no expert (apart from drinking the stuff ), but I don't think that wine as we know it is particularly popular in China, with more emphasis being placed on beers and rice wines/spirits. I would guess the cellar you saw was elsewhere, or contained substances rather more noxious than wine

EckoZero wrote:Good wine?

I haven't had any truly good wine for a while now. Any you can recommend for me? (Trying to keep the price under £20... I'm a poor student you see...)

If you're talking about the price for a bottle, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a pretty decent wine for under that unless you're a proper connoisseur. I've particularly enjoyed these three:

http://www.majestic.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st ... ctId=11019
http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nl ... ?prodid=19
http://www.tesco.com/winestore/controll ... escriptors

EDIT: It seems the majestic link relies on sessions or something, so it doesn't work. The wines were Mouton Cadet Rouge 2003 (£7.89), Wolf Blass Yellow Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 (£7.99), Faustino V Reserva Rioja (£8.53)

£20 for a case of good wine is more of a challenge I think. A few years ago there were drinkable bulgarian cab savs in supermarkets for this price, but I'm unsure of the current bargains.

the best red wine i ever spilled down my shirt is - zingarro rosso - about £12 a bottle...well worth the hangover...very tasty and fruity...

"im getting hints of ebony, ostrich feathers and angel's tears..."

oooh that and a nice cigar....lovely...

abraxus wrote:the best red wine i ever spilled down my shirt is - zingarro rosso - about £12 a bottle...well worth the hangover...very tasty and fruity...

"im getting hints of ebony, ostrich feathers and angel's tears..."

oooh that and a nice cigar....lovely...

"I'm getting rose petals, sandalwood, hippopotamus toenails...

I'm getting... five thousand pounds a show for this rubbish!"

Thanks Steverino for the link. I'll have a look at it next time when I have more time. It's late at the moment and I got early maths lecture. Dam it's so tedious the writing down and everything.

Oooh thanks for the wine tips guys

I'll be going to M&S tomorrow, so I can get some good wine for my birthday.

Grand

The 2004 Vintage of 'Beyerskloof' is pretty excelent at the moment, REALLY thick South African red ... I always make a point of reccomending it when people start discusing wines.

It's quite low in Tannins so you dont get that horrible after taste, and the hangover is pretty clean aswell..... a bargain at 5.99 a bottle.

Rob

Happy birthday EckoZero!

Have a great party and enjoy your wine.

(I'm assuming your birthday is close because you're buying wine now unless you're buying it to leave it out for a while to get that extra flavour as many wine drinkers do. )

Thank you

yes it is my birthday on Thursday. So wine tomorrow will do me great

yes it is my birthday on Thursday.

Happy Birthday, mine's a pint - cheers !

You'll buy me a pint Mandrake?

You're too kind lol

... you'll have a hard enough job getting a pint off me on a day that isn't my birthday mate...

Of course I'll buy you a pint - any chance you could lend me a tenner until payday?

LMAO

How does... no! sound?

How does... no! sound?

It sounds like we're both going thirsty !

Oh you can both have a pint on me

http://www.e-pint.com/sample.php

Happy Birthday

PS, I wouldn't recommend actually sending e-pints on that site for two reasons:

1) It's probably an email harvesting scam of some sort
2) They seem to give bad watery pints with too much head