Author: steve

Costières De Nîmes – Rouge. French Connection Classics, half price at Tesco (about £4)

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First taste comes across as bitter, but then the fruit starts get noticed. Not the sort of wine to rush, seems a glass can last an hour or so. Probably a little too fruity for my liking. It has a strong taste, which sits heavy. One wine I’d probably not like to burp back up.  The bottle states it’s ideal for roasts, inclined to agree with it.  Washed down with beef and gravy it would most likely be less strong.  Tested with cheese and biscuits it’s not too bad.

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35° South, Cabernet Sauvignon – Shiraz. Half price at Morrisons the other week (around £4).

A wine from the southern hemisphere. In fact from Chile’s ‘wild’ southern region. Where ever the fuck that is. Apparently it contains ‘Sulfites’. Maybe a wiki search will tell me what the hell that is, still I guess as they are boasting, it can’t be bad. At least it doesn’t boast: contains ‘ASPARTEME‘

A nice fruity wine, it has a dry taste but nice. Accompanied my Davidstow cheese and biscuits well.

The label boasts of cherries and tobacco, with note of black pepper, hints of olives, blackberries and chocolate. To be honest I can’t taste any of them. It gives a nice warm sensation as it goes down, so maybe that’s the pepper.

Still overall a nice well balance wine. Would be very nice with a beef dinner.

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