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Aldi's "specially selected Sauternes" was reduced to £6.50 per half at my store. It's actually relabelled Lions de Suduiraut 2016, as confirmed by the cork! They've not restocked since I cleared them out so your mileage may vary.
is it any good? second wines from Sauternes have always disappointed in my experience.
 
Just collecting my Waitrose order from local shop, nice big box, but slightly lighter than 6 bottles? I opened it in front of the staff, found there are only four bottles in it.... Luckily I didn‘t ask to send to home and luckily I didn‘t just carry the whole box home without opening! Now waiting for solution in shop.
 
Just collecting my Waitrose order from local shop, nice big box, but slightly lighter than 6 bottles? I opened it in front of the staff, found there are only four bottles in it.... Luckily I didn‘t ask to send to home and luckily I didn‘t just carry the whole box home without opening! Now waiting for solution in shop.
Hope you got a positive resolution Po?
Thankfully 6 bottles turned up in my order yesterday....... I did open it on the doorstep before the driver left just in case I needed an independent witness after your experience.
 
Curiously the Lions de Suduiraut served at the dinner the other night seems to have been a dry wine!
There are two Lions de Suduiraut, one is the second wine of grand vin sweet wine, one is with "blanc sec", the "second wine" of their dry white, which is a new line for them? Now Suduiraut have three dry white and we were served 2021 vintage of the basic dry white as aperitif and an introduction of new vintage.

I did ask about the other dry white and apparently their "top" dry white is only released in some years, rather serious wine. However, he said even if the dry would sell better/higher price than sweet, he wouldn‘t want to change the focus from sweet.
 
Hope you got a positive resolution Po?
Thankfully 6 bottles turned up in my order yesterday....... I did open it on the doorstep before the driver left just in case I needed an independent witness after your experience.
Good for you!
The solution was that they will send the missing two bottles again, but as I predicted, those wine are now out of stock, so they can only do refund. So many things are sold out now I can‘t even find any reasonable substitution option.
 
Good for you!
The solution was that they will send the missing two bottles again, but as I predicted, those wine are now out of stock, so they can only do refund. So many things are sold out now I can‘t even find any reasonable substitution option.
Can you not just buy two cellar Defenders for £10 or less? We padded our order with a few bottles of Guigal CdR.
 
@Mark Hardy @Steven Pritchard Is the Hess any good? Curious to try. I've had the Kirkland Russian River PN which was certainly serviceable. Curious to try their Kirkland Cali Chard too. I also spotted in Costco that they have a Willamette Valley PN from 2016.

I’ll give it a bash during the week. On a different note a magnum of 242 was a different beast versus the 241, candied peel, a little Botrytis sitting on top of lemony fruit. The 241 is a lovely, Chardonnay dominated beast, sleek and reductive, and although the 242 will lose weight and gain structure as it ages, the 241 magnum is a point ahead (95/100).
 
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I’ll give it a bash during the week. On a different note a magnum of 242 was a different beast versus the 241, candied peel, a little Botrytis sitting on top of lemony fruit. The 241 is a lovely, Chardonnay dominated beast, sleek and reductive, and although the 242 will lose weight and gain structure as it ages, the 241 magnum is a point ahead (95/100).
I am sure I am a lone dissenting voice, and will likely get ran out of town and lynched but….
Roederer Collection 242 in bottle seems disjointed and inelegant.
Perhaps clunky is the word.
The impresson is almost as if the wines from reserve are tipped in as an effort to introduce some interest but have no harmony with the rest of the cuvée.
This is admittedly after only two bottles that may be from the same batch.And numerous odd glasses out on my travels.
But so far the Collection has not to me seemed nearly as fine as Brut Premier.
 
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