Reccomend me a bottle of red wine apprx £40

[Jakestar]

Im looking to by the old man a nice bottle of red for xmas, looking to spend around £40ish, does anyone have any reccomendations for a good buy at this price?!

I don't know anything about red wine and the old man would appreciated any type / flavour!

[JABB]

I would stick my neck out and get a bottle of Hermitage La Chapelle, Jaboulet. Not too over the top and a good drink. One bottle £40 - £45 ish.
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[Mobile Chicane]

Two bottles of Chateau Musar makes a good present - one to drink now, one to keep - and a talking point.

[pacman1]

Mobile Chicane said:

Two bottles of Chateau Musar makes a good present - one to drink now, one to keep - and a talking point.

I imagine it would go well with slow cooked venison. I'll bring a bottle round.;)

[Plotloss]

Get a Barolo recommendation from your local Vintners.

[Cactussed]

You won't get a first growth bordeaux for that price, but you cna get a second growth which should last well.

I'd perhaps try Alter Ego de Palmer (second wine of Chateau Palmer). Supposed to be very good.
Alternatively, you can try some of the 3rd and 4th growth Bordeaux. Buying from a good recent vintage (eg, 2005) is going to be tricky by the sngle bottle for soemthing decent I would think.

[Dr_Rick]

pacman1 said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Two bottles of Chateau Musar makes a good present - one to drink now, one to keep - and a talking point.

I imagine it would go well with slow cooked venison. I'll bring a bottle round.;)

^^^^^ This!!

I visited their cellars in Beirut and had the pleasure of sampling birth years in red for both myself and my sister (1978 and 1985 respectively). Absolutely lovely, the '78 was a pure bolt of rounded fruits, no harsh tannins just smooth and full bodied. '85 needed a bit more 'sitting'.

They had upwards of $4.5m worth of wine stored in stone caves in the hills above Beirut; bins and bins of the stuff.

They even let me go away with the remaining 3/4 of a bottle. Retail was approximately $150 a bottle according to them.

Dr Rick

[lockhart flawse]

I think you'd be taking a bit of the risk with the Chateau Musar - it's as often off as on in my experience and when it's too old it is really not nice.

£40 is a lot to spend on one bottle for someone with apparently no particular appreciation of red wine and at that price can be a very "individual" taste. Would he know how nice it was if he didn't know the price? You can get a perfectly good wine for £12 - why not get 3 of those?

L.F.

[shirt]

agreed. i took a £30 bordeaux to lunch with my parents on their anniversary. the £10 bottle my dad produced to follow it was just as good, though this may be to do with the fact he's better at finding them than i am.

[Jakestar]

lockhart flawse said:

I think you'd be taking a bit of the risk with the Chateau Musar - it's as often off as on in my experience and when it's too old it is really not nice.

£40 is a lot to spend on one bottle for someone with apparently no particular appreciation of red wine and at that price can be a very "individual" taste. Would he know how nice it was if he didn't know the price? You can get a perfectly good wine for £12 - why not get 3 of those?

L.F.

Good point, I mean he does enjoy wine and will often have wine with dinner etc, just that not having too much money will only really drink realtvely cheap wine. So your right in that Im not sure he would appreciate a £40 bottle 3x as much as a £12 bottle, though (being of limited knowledge) I assumed that a more expensive bottle would taste that little bit special?!

If this is not the case then I'll just get him a few cheaper bottles!