Decent red wine for a tenner? (better than Barossa Ink)

[popegregory]

Found in Sainsbury’s for about seven quid, most acceptable

[oddman]

Morrisons Barbera d'Asti. Normally £8.00 now £6.50

Slightly hesitant to recommend on this thread but is astonishing value. If you get Italian wines and like the acidity and sour fruit nature, you'll like this. If I'd bought a nebbiolo based wine at triple the price I'd be happy if it tasted like this

Definitely a food wine. Good partner for robust tomato based Italian food

[popegregory]

I love the fact we’re all so tight on here that we’re pointing out discounted ones being under a tenner that were already under a tenner

[oddman]

popegregory said:

I love the fact we’re all so tight on here that we’re pointing out discounted ones being under a tenner that were already under a tenner

TBF that Barbera I recommended is so good that if came in a bottle with a label from a more distinguished North Italian DOC I wouldn't be sorry to drop £20 on it.

It will appeal to those who 'get' Italian reds. Appreciate that they are not for everyone and there are some shocking examples of poor winemaking from Italy which could put off the less determined Supermarket stocking of Italian wine is no guarantee of quality as it might be for South West France, Portugal or Spain

[Stan the Bat]

"dropping " £20 on a bottle comes over as a bit ................. watch type forum, old chap.

[havoc]

oddman said:

TBF that Barbera I recommended is so good that if came in a bottle with a label from a more distinguished North Italian DOC I wouldn't be sorry to drop £20 on it.

It will appeal to those who 'get' Italian reds. Appreciate that they are not for everyone and there are some shocking examples of poor winemaking from Italy which could put off the less determined Supermarket stocking of Italian wine is no guarantee of quality as it might be for South West France, Portugal or Spain

That's always been my headache when I've tried Italian reds - there's a lot of 'variability' out there, and some of the varieties are only for the determined, IYSWIM.

If I'm out at a decent Italian restaurant, or with my (half-eyetie) best mate who knows his onions (metaphorically), then I'm more relaxed. But I've tended to veer away from them in the supermarket.

[LordHaveMurci]

Not sure what this cost but would’ve been less than £10 from Tesco.
Very agreeable to my uneducated taste, prefer it to Porta etc & even the mighty Barossa Ink!

[Big Stevie]

a311 said:

Normally a tenner in tesco but curenelty £8 in with a clubcard. Found this more than decent for the price:

I'm not a wine drinker, but I keep hearing people saying how nice 19 Crimes red wine is. They say that if you scan the QR code on the bottle then you get a video of the criminal telling you what crime they did?

Was in Asda today and they had that ^^ bottle reduced from £10 to £8, so I grabbed one. I'll try it tonight. What's the score with this, open and leave it to breathe for a while first?

[madbadger]

Big Stevie said:

a311 said:

Normally a tenner in tesco but curenelty £8 in with a clubcard. Found this more than decent for the price:

I'm not a wine drinker, but I keep hearing people saying how nice 19 Crimes red wine is. They say that if you scan the QR code on the bottle then you get a video of the criminal telling you what crime they did?

Was in Asda today and they had that ^^ bottle reduced from £10 to £8, so I grabbed one. I'll try it tonight. What's the score with this, open and leave it to breathe for a while first?

Always worth letting wine breathe. Better if you can decant it too. It will never make it worse.

[oddman]

Big Stevie said:

I'm not a wine drinker, but I keep hearing people saying how nice 19 Crimes red wine is. They say that if you scan the QR code on the bottle then you get a video of the criminal telling you what crime they did?

Was in Asda today and they had that ^^ bottle reduced from £10 to £8, so I grabbed one. I'll try it tonight. What's the score with this, open and leave it to breathe for a while first?

Mass market wines are fined and filtered to within an inch of their lives so no need to 'decant' in the traditional way as there will be no sediment.

As far as airing is concerned, you can invert the bottle over a jug let the contents glug out and pour the wine back into the bottle. Will not do any harm at all and will usually help 'open up' a young wine.

[Big Stevie]

Well the 19 Crimes was quite nice. I did scan the QR code and the criminal on the bottles label starts talking to you about the crime he committed, which is clever.

[dimots]

Has anyone posted up the M&S La Cascala Passivento Primitivo?

On 1/3 off sale right now £6 something. Really good wine.

[sean ie3]

Probably a tenner in the UK,



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