TN Best wines this year for under £10

Alistair Scott said:
A fellow forum member flagged up Blees-Ferber spatburgunder rose which arrived on doorstep about £7 direct so even with duty still on the ballpark. Outstanding value, wife had a first sip, not knowing cost and declared it delicious. Suitably dry and generously fruited, will look for more next year assuming Felixstowe is no longer a truck park.
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I was just thinking that I don’t have much under £10 except....
Blees-Ferber Rose Spatburgunder Halbtrocken. I emailed Stefan the other day and really should get a case. Those 18 bottle mosel cases are very handy.
 
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Stephen Williams said:
Domaine Pierre Amadieu - Cote du Rhone Blanc "la Grande Romane"
Bought for €11 at the Domaine in 2019, and drunk this year. It's a high altitude, old vine, pure clairette white 'Gigondas'. When and if the appellation gets approval to label its whites with the village name, I would expect this will be one of the standard bearers, alongside St Cosme's Le Poste Blanc. The other Domaine wines, especially their red Gigondas cuvées are also worth a try. For anyone visiting the area, the cellar door shop puts on a good show, that is more comprehensive than the village square Cave Municipale.
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This is a great wine. Connection declared, we took on this producer this year. Sadly though it is definitely not under a tenner retail inc vat.
I agree with all your thoughts. I noticed TWS had an older magnum of one of their top red Gigondas, but sadly sold out. Shame, I would have liked to have tried it.
 
Leon Marks said:
2012 Chateau Villa Bel Air - £10 from an off licence in Ealing. Pretty sure that is below what it was EP. it’s a lovely shop - owned by an old couple, their son buys the wine and evidently has a lot of fun doing so.
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went back to the shop and they'd upped the price £2.99 - doubtless because of this thread. Never again will I post about Ealing wine bargains...

That said - it's still probably the best wine for £12.99 I've bought all year.
 
I need to sit down and read this thread. I doubt that I've bought anything cheaper this year than a white from an Alto Adige co-op which arrived yesterday...£17.95. I'm not all that rich (in Winepages terms), nor would I say I'm a wine snob. But I am a wine obsessive and there are way too many specific wines I want to try, and almost all of them happen to cost over £20. As our current wine spend is running to £120 to £150 a week I probably should try to find enjoyable wines for a tenner. Trouble is, it's like coffee. After drinking £8.50-a-throw single estate stuff from CoffeeMongers it is something of a shock to drink, as I have this week, a packet of Waitrose "Peruvian", which a few years ago would itself have seemed like luxury.
 
David Crossley said:
rouble is, it's like coffee. After drinking £8.50-a-throw single estate stuff from CoffeeMongers it is something of a shock to drink, as I have this week, a packet of Waitrose "Peruvian", which a few years ago would itself have seemed like luxury.
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I fortunately have terrible taste in coffee, brute strength being the only quality I desire. Expensive coffee always seems to me wanly acidic.
 
In this or any other year, two traditional Italians from WineSoc, the Suagna from Langhe (Dolcetto/Nebbiolo) and the Palladino Biferno (Montepulciano/Aglianico and some Trebbiano). The latter is also in Co-op. Even though I’ve had both many times, I still look forward to drinking them for that hit of leather and balsamic that seems to be increasingly harder to find in everyday Italian reds.
 
Any views on the Fruili Sauvignon on the current Lidl Wine Tour? It is £6.49 and surprisingly serious to my taste. It needs some air for sure, with some sulphur notes, and it is high toned. But it is surprisingly good at the price for me, real length and intensity. As I say - needs 3-6 hours air. It is good to see Fruili whites in the UK, not something I have seen often anywhere.
 
Wholeheartedly agree that going up to £12/13 on TWS can result in markedly more exciting wines, but that said I do end up buying quite a lot of stuff from there for under a tenner.

Here are my favourites from this year:

Whites:
TWS Vin D'Alsace
Gewurztraminer Cave de Turckheim 2015
TWS White Rioja
Muscadet Sevre et Maine sur Lie Comte Leloup Centenaires Ch de Chasseloir 2015

But if I had to pick one it would be Viognier Grès du Trias, Coteaux de l'Ardèche, Vignerons Ardéchois 2018 - remarkably classy for the money.

Reds:
Alongside the aforementioned Suagna and Xinomavro, I'd add

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Vigna Corvino 2019
Cuvee Le Levraut Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2018
 
Gareth Miles said:
Any views on the Fruili Sauvignon on the current Lidl Wine Tour? It is £6.49 and surprisingly serious to my taste. It needs some air for sure, with some sulphur notes, and it is high toned. But it is surprisingly good at the price for me, real length and intensity. As I say - needs 3-6 hours air. It is good to see Fruili whites in the UK, not something I have seen often anywhere.
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May have to try that!
 
John Simson said:
Wholeheartedly agree that going up to £12/13 on TWS can result in markedly more exciting wines, but that said I do end up buying quite a lot of stuff from there for under a tenner.

Here are my favourites from this year:

Whites:
TWS Vin D'Alsace
Gewurztraminer Cave de Turckheim 2015
TWS White Rioja
Muscadet Sevre et Maine sur Lie Comte Leloup Centenaires Ch de Chasseloir 2015

But if I had to pick one it would be Viognier Grès du Trias, Coteaux de l'Ardèche, Vignerons Ardéchois 2018 - remarkably classy for the money.

Reds:
Alongside the aforementioned Suagna and Xinomavro, I'd add

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Vigna Corvino 2019
Cuvee Le Levraut Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2018
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Just had the Viognier Gres de Trias 2019 based on this recco and have to agree - classy wine and great VFM. Went very well with a creamy smoked haddock chowder but 14.5% ABV is not for the faint-hearted
 
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