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 Post subject: Emergencies
PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:11 pm 
Having decided that it was enough of an emergency (in so much as i'd druck the £3 red i bought on my way home from Tesco), to break into my private reserve in the bottom of my wardrobe (as there was nothing else), i'm currently drinking a fabulous Pinot Noir that Tesco stopped selling about 6 months ago and is no longer available. But hell, it'll ne worth it int the morning, right? :? I fear for the last of the 2005 Cabernet Merlot...


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:18 pm 
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I never have any emergencies. A bottle of wine in the house gets drunk. What's wrong with £3 red? Bob dylan made his best records on worse.

My criteria for wine is dry, 11% ish, cheapish and tastes okish, owt else is a bonus. But I wouldn't take advice from a devotee in his heyday of £2.99 sherry


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:21 pm 
There's not a thing wrong with it! I just meant it was all i had in the house, apart from a stash of olf fafvourites that is looking like bcoming swiftly depleted. Tesco's £3 French/Aussie/Californian reds are all quite lovely.


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i'm saving a barolo that my son got me for my birthday back at the start of feb until i've finished this BASTARD nvq course. it's driving me nuts and i cant wait to sup it.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:58 pm 
I've been 'saving' 4 bottles, and not quite sure why i've put myself through the torture. The Hardys Voyage is staying untouched though until they dicover an untapped reserve of 20,000,000 bottles and there's no danger of it becomming ectiicnt anytime soon.


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i luuuuurvve red wine. food of the gods.

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I'm on tempranillo after some rioja, have a pinot noir lined up for tomorrow along with a sparkling shiraz ... i am a red wine devotee ... but despite trawling the sonoma valley (if I've spelt it right? anyhow vineyards down the road from where Jack London ended up living and less commercial than the napa valley) I haven't been able to find a californian wine that doesn't make me go :puker: ... also worried that Craig and I might have found some common ground .... shit, that's scarey than me and Dave actually getting on :shock: :pale:

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I haven't been able to find a californian wine that doesn't make me go :puker: ... also worried that Craig and I might have found some common ground .... shit, that's scarey than me and Dave actually getting on :shock: :pale:


Don't pretend like you hate it sugartits (though i am going to cancel my standing order with Ernest & Julio).


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the heavier the better, none of this light weight stuff. big beefy cab sovs and shirazzzis. i like a depth charge too. port and guinness.

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I'm a rioja man. All the way.

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Oh I so love rioja ... but come on Craig you must admit that Ernest & Julio is particularly disgusting? Even I credit you with some taste :? :roll: As for sugartits, :? don't think I've come across that particular grape variety ... new world???

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 Post subject: great reds
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other great grapes are carmenere, malbec,carignan old vines. nothing like a full- bodied red. :oops: :twisted: :roll:
what a sophisticated lot we are , us hawley lovers.
does riccardo take a sup of a fine vintage now and again? he makes reference to it in "valentine".aged or raged wine?
enjoying a lovely malbec a ce moment. cheers


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Malbec? :roll: :D very neglected but rather enticing 8)

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I've just stocked up on lots of wine goodies from Tesco's wine sale. I love Santa Rita Chilean Merlot and a really obscure Portugese red that the vineyard don't export very often - Belafonte Jaen something or other - can't get hold of it anywhere though and it was fantastic value :D

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CraigA wrote:
Having decided that it was enough of an emergency (in so much as i'd druck the £3 red i bought on my way home from Tesco), to break into my private reserve in the bottom of my wardrobe (as there was nothing else), i'm currently drinking a fabulous Pinot Noir that Tesco stopped selling about 6 months ago and is no longer available. But hell, it'll ne worth it int the morning, right? :? I fear for the last of the 2005 Cabernet Merlot...


Have a vision of Craig walking home from work with a bottle of Tesco red and a straw :*:

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