A Proper Friday Night Pairing Fish and chips night called for something refreshing and after enjoying the red from Marques de los Ríos previously, I spotted their Cava in Morrisons for £8.50 and thought it was worth a go. Sometimes these supermarket sparkling wines can be a bit one dimensional, but this one immediately showed…
Sometimes the Best Bottles Are the Unexpected Ones This bottle was a birthday gift from my best man and Fantasy Golf Hub partner, Dan. I wasn’t planning a pairing, wasn’t looking to analyse every detail and wasn’t expecting to be writing a review. The plan was simply to enjoy a glass and see where it…
A Wine That Needed Patience Tonight’s bottle was Domaine de Thalabert Crozes-Hermitage from Paul Jaboulet Aîné, and from the moment I pulled the cork I knew this wasn’t going to be a wine that gave everything away immediately. I recieved this wine as a present from my mother in law! Straight out of the bottle…
Birthdays always seem to be a good excuse to open something a little different, and this year I found myself reaching for a bottle of Cloudy Bay Pelorus. Cloudy Bay is a producer that most wine drinkers will know for Sauvignon Blanc, but Pelorus is their traditional method sparkling wine from Marlborough, New Zealand. I…
A Proper Midweek Steak Wine I picked this bottle up from Majestic for £17 and straight away felt like it might be in my lane. High altitude Argentinian Malbec, decent producer and a wine that looked like it wanted a bit more than just being a jammy fruit bomb. What I didn’t expect was just…
There are some cracking wines out there, its just a shame that you have to look for so long to find them as is the amount of rubbish that the supermarkets have you wading through. Then there are wines like this, where the more time you spend with them, the more they reveal. The Antinori…
What a Collab this is! I went into Majestic in Birkdale which I do often and I picked this up because of one thing really. Its in the Definition by Majestic Range and its called Vina Majestica, The collaboration with La Rioja Alta, S.A.. I’ve had their wines before and I know exactly what they’re…
There are nights where you open a bottle and think, yeah this is nice. Then there are nights where everything just clicks. This was definitely the latter. I picked up a bottle of Jim Barry Cover Drive Cabernet Sauvignon as a bit of a midweek treat. Nothing too serious, around the £15 mark, but something…
I picked this bottle up after seeing it mentioned by Tom Gilbey, who spoke highly of it and compared it to styles I’ve enjoyed before. That was enough to spark my interest, especially given how much I’ve liked wines like Viña Alberdi. What I got initially was exactly that. A pleasant nose, cherry pie and…
I’ve been looking forward to opening this one. A Chardonnay from Limoux, a region that quietly produces some brilliant value wines, and one that came with a strong recommendation. Expectations were there, especially after hearing it described as creamy, layered and full of citrus. So naturally, I poured a glass straight from the fridge and…