Finca Las Moras Malbec

Apparently this is the produce of a large wine estate in Argentina. I read up about the Finca Las Moras estate in San Juan and about the Malbec grape variety and I still struggled for something to say to you about this wine. It was adequate. I was not embarrassed to have it at the …

Barossa Ink Shiraz

I have been postponing my review of this wine, and I don't know why because I enjoyed it so much. Three of us shared a bottle and we all enjoyed it. Lots of rich fruit, something deliciously dark pulling it back from being too sweet. When we first opened the bottle I could not get …

Domaine Viret Energie

I was slightly perplexed by my first glass of this wine. I was sure I was tasting too much cork at first. My second glass was more enjoyable, but there is no mistaking that there is a certain mystique within this bottle. I read that Philippe Viret normally produces two types of Energie wine but …

Santa Julia Malbec

The first sniff followed by a sip of this full bodied red wine - my first thoughts were blackcurrant. I thought there was a big punch of blackcurrant in fact. But I may have been mistaken, because when I tried my second glass, the blackcurrant was absent, and this time it was a distinctly cherry …

Tesco Finest Saint Chinian

I was not sure if I should mention that this bottle came from Tesco, but whatever your perceptions of budget supermarkets are, prepare to abandon them. I have so much praise for this bottle of wine. I was surprised, very surprised at how joyously fruity it was. After sniffing and tasting and loving this wine …

Home Range Cabernet Sauvignon

Have you ever made the mistake of brushing your teeth with minty toothpaste before going out to a dinner party? Of course as soon as you arrive you host wants to supply a large wine glass to you and you realize how silly you were to dull al your taste buds with fresh mint fluoride. …

Terres De Moraines

I do apologise for the slightly blurry photograph! Something tells me I had already finished off a large glass of this delightful wine before I fetched my camera. We must have tried hundreds, if not thousands of different wines over the years. We have had our favourites. Yet, we have more frequently tried wine that …

Terre Di Faiano

This is probably the most popular wine we know of because of two words - "organic" and "Waitrose". In our area, there are a couple of pretentious wine shops, and we do buy some very expensive wine from those shops. But most of us also keep our wine cellar stocked up with supermarket wine. Before …

Dark Horse Cabernet Sauvignon

I sent my nephew Will with my credit card to the local supermarket on the pretext of buying some essentials, but in reality, the only item on the list I gave him that I really needed was red wine. (We have plenty of white and rose, but we seem to have depleted our stocks of …