Tanner’s, Patrono Fine Ruby Port, Portugal
Tanner’s, Patrono Fine Ruby Port from Portugal it’s a standard good quality Port it’s not amazing but then at £12 a bottle you’ve got to be realistic on what you’re getting. There are flavours of plum and blackberry and a decent length on the taste.
I’m not sure if this is is any better or any worse the many at this price bracket. I still think that the Graham’s six grape what is that is a bit better only £2-£3 more.
Play the extra and get good German wine is what’s needed in the UK and this Riesling from Von Winning shows why. A medium dry wine that has a surprising amount of acidity. There are flavours of citrus, lemon, grapefruit with apple and peach. Mineral and stone highlights with a honey background coming through.
About £15 to £20 a bottle it more than you may want to pay, but that’s what you going to pay for decent wine in Germany.
Von Winning, Ruppertsberger Reiterpfad Riesling, 2016, Pfalz, Germany
Chateau De Targe, Cuvee Ferry, Cabernet Franc, 2017, Loire Valley, France
I love Loire wines and recently the wine maker from chateau De Targe presented to the Colchester Cellar Club. His Cabernet Franc is very good with good length and decent amount of red fruit flavours and aromas. There’s underlying oak and an earthiness feel to it. It’s dry and pretty bold and all the components are working well together.
At about £10 a bottle its decent red wine.
Chateau Fuisse, Pouilly Fuisse, Le Clos Monopole, 2014, FranceYou know if you have good wine friends when they bring you a bottle of this Chateau Fuisse, Pouilly Fuisse, Le Clos Monopole, 2014 to dinner.
Some of the other people at the dinner table were very excited when they saw this wine, I was very excited when I drink this wine.
Coming from burgundy you do expect good wine but this was exceptional it was medium bodied reasonably dry with excellent balance of acidity and flavours. You had lime, peach, apple and honey flavours with mineral notes with an underlying creamy butter that had just the right level of oak underlying it all.
The worst thing is that at £60 a bottle most people will never get to try such an amazing mine.
Deinhard, Grauer Burgunder, 2014, Pfalz, Germany
German wines are generally very good but not necessarily the ones in the UK, you have to hunt them out and pay that little bit more like for this Dr Deinhard Grauer Burgunder.
Made with Pinot Gris this is a growing up wine with plenty of citrus flavour and subtle mineral notes coming through.
At about £20 a bottle it’s little bit on the pricey side but then again you do have to pay extra to get good German wine in the UK.
Aldi, Henry of Pelham, The Falls, Riesling, Canada
Aldi sell some amazing wines and some terrible wines luckily this one made by Henry of Pelham is amazing especially for the price. The Falls, Riesling comes from the Niagara region in Canada. It’s very hard to get a bad bottle of Canadian wine in the UK but you normally have to spend 2 or 3 times the £7.99 the Aldi are charging for this wine.
It’s dry why with plenty of citrus fruit flavours with a slight kerosene undertone as you would expect from a new world Riesling but it’s fresh and credibly drinkable. This is the wine of the summer for me. THANK YOU Aldi for such a great wine.
Coteaux du vendomois, Chant Grives, 2014, Loire, France
The Loire in France makes some rather excellent wine and this Coteaux du vendomois, Chant Grives, 2014 good example of a reasonable priced everyday drinking wine that should just be enjoyed. Given its 8 years old there was plenty of right citrus fruits in there with honey notes it’s a semi sweet wine made with the Chenin grape.
Borda Sabate, Torb 1190m organic, 2014, Andorra.
Borda Sabate is over 1000m above sea level, so sea level rises are unlikely to concern them. This Torb is at 1190m and organic. I’ve not had Andorra wines before but this was add good wire with dark fruits plum and bramble notes with a bit of tobacco and oak in there. A little earthy maybe but we had it with food so worked well.
The only gripe I really have to get used to is the cost at around £40 is quite a lot of money for this wine.
Clos de l’Anhel, Les Dimanches, 2009, Corbieres, France
Clos de l’Anhelmake excellent wines and it’s often the case that you should drink wine in a particular period after its been made and this Les Dimanches, 2009 shows why.
Coming from the Corbieres region in France wines are generally left to age little and and although this is still old wine it has decent amounts of black fruit, plum, blackcurrant with chocolate and a smoke and earthy undertone, after 13 years it’s still have been drunk earlier.
The turnings for starting to Fe and the dryness was a little bit too much. Possibly 3 or 4 years ago the fruit would a balanced out better.
Definitely want to have his food but try not to have anything with a heavy sauce if you’re going to drink something at this age.
Tenuta Carretta, Canorei Romero Arneis, 2013, Italy
It’s my first time having this Tenuta Carretta, Canorei Romero Arneis, 2013 from Italy and it was quite wonderful. It’s quite a boldwine, dry with reasonably acidity.
There are massive amount of flavours in here with a melon, apple, citrus – limes and lemons with an open vanilla, buttery undertone and frankly it’s magic.
It’s £15 to £20 for bottle but it’s worth it it really is.