- Location
- Deep South of Cambridgeshire
Looking for an approx £10 red burg - similar to that Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference wine that Tom Blach alerted us to many years ago.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
Or are amazingly fortunate to not feel encouraged to go down that rabbit-hole. Long may your resolve keep up!! I am not convinced it is worth pursuing these days in BurgundyHopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.
I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
I think it scarcely exists at all any longer, Richard.‘Supermarket red Burgundy’ may be the worst category of wine currently. Any other contenders?
A Cotes Du Rhone, I would say. Really good burgundy can make a difference applied in small quantity at the end of the process, but it's a dish I no longer love. It goes very badly with the good stuff and is intended to go with the formerly cheap wines from the Cote Chalonnaise, the Hautes Cotes, Passetoutgrains and Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire as was.I always want to ask, what's the most suitable supermarket wine for making Beef Burgundy?
£50 might buy you an ok one (better at auction at that price) but you are probably looking at more than £85 for a good one these days sadly.Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.
I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
Too right.I am not convinced it is worth pursuing these days in Burgundy
I think it must have been in 2007-it was £3 a bottle and was a Mercurey from Antonin Rodet, IIRC, a respected source of whom one doesn't hear much these days, and it was a very decent genuine example. I wonder if anyone's got any left, it was the sort of wine that would have lasted effortlessly.that Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference wine that Tom Blach alerted us to many years ago.
I’ve bored for England on here expressing my Burgo-scepticism, Rusnam, and I fall firmly in the claret-fanciers’ camp, but I have to concede that when you get a really good red Burgundy (say, one wine in 20) they are supreme in the red-wine-world. That’s why even I kept chasing the dragon when I was still buying wine.Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.
I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
Wouldn't surprise me if a bottle turned up somewhere in my stash...I think it must have been in 2007-it was £3 a bottle and was a Mercurey from Antonin Rodet, IIRC, a respected source of whom one doesn't hear much these days, and it was a very decent genuine example. I wonder if anyone's got any left, it was the sort of wine that would have lasted effortlessly.
I concur, I would rather drink nettle juice.‘Supermarket red Burgundy’ may be the worst category of wine currently. Any other contenders?
Cheep and cheerful doesn't apply to red Burgundy anymore. You can still find the occasional 1/2 decent white at sub 20 but even these are increasingly rare.Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.
I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
Sadly our local Aldi doesn't have a great range of wines, but I'll look out for it (more from academic interest than anything else!)Aldi currently have a red and white pair for under a tenner, called Bougeron. These days they don't show the underlying producer.
IIRC I've seen favourable comment on the white, nothing on the red.
Someone (possibly Tom?) has suggested that one can only appreciate and understand cheaper Burgundy when one has had the good stuff. I think there is something to this notion. I do often find modest Burg can be a hard sell to my friends. I see glimmers of the acid/earth/fruit balance in these wines that they just see as thin and not particularly delicious. So Cape Claret it is!Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.
I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
If it doesn't turn out to be very horrible indeed I will eat my marzipan hat, Alex!I did pick up a cheap red Burg from Tesco, which I may post a note on in due course. It's a Gamay, not a Pinot, so might be OK.