In this episode, we try to find some good quality wines for under or around the £6 mark which are freely available in UK Supermarkets.
In the second part of this episode, we taste Sainsbury’s House Claret wine which is a name typically the British give to Bourdeaux wines.
French wines, as we often mentioned, because of the high-quality reputation, tend to be priced higher than wines from other countries, so the price of this wine at £5.00 is even more remarkable.
To the sight, the wine looks a very deep ruby and looks to have more viscosity than the previous wine we had just tasted in Part 2 (Kourtaki’s Retsina)
On the nose, the aroma is very distinctive of French wine, it has blackcurrant, spice and even strawberry!
On the palette, we were very pleasantly surprised, for the price point for a French wine we were fearing the taste would be wanting but this wine far exceeded our expectations.
The fruit flavour came first through, to begin with, followed by the tannins at the end which just last for a very short burst.
There is hardly any length, but for a quaffable wine, this is excellent value!
In this episode, we taste two big names in the Champagne world Pol Roger and Armand de Brignac which both have a hefty price tag so we are expecting great things from both of them, but particularly the Armand de Brignac as it retails between £200 and £3001
In this first part, we taste a Vintage Pol Roger 2004 which retails at a price around £75.
A fantastic well-balanced glass of Champagne with no excess acidity to detect. The flavour is as close as you can get to perfection for John L!
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In this last part of this episode, we taste our last French Malbec from the Cahors region.
This one was darker in colour and on the nose smells more like Rioja to John L. and on the palate, it so much better than the previous two examples in this episode.
It is available from Sainsbury’s at £13.00 which is considerably more expensive than the wines tasted in part 1 and 2.
The taste of this has rich blackcurrant flavour, tannins soft with red berries on the end of the taste.
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In the second part of this episode, we continue tasting French Malbec. This wine – Rigal Original Malbec – is available from Asda at £7.50.
On the nose, it is more intense than the Tesco Malbed we tasted in part 1 with a strong Cherry small.
On the tongue, this Malbec gives much more flavour.
Although John M gives this wine a score of 73, he reduces this score to 70 when he tastes the wine in part 3 of this episode!
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