Tag: White Wine

Tasting Notes I’d only previously heard of Pecorino as an Italian hard ewe’s cheese, but apparently it’s a grape variety too. It’s a light-skinned white grape most commonly used in the Italian Marche and Abruzzo regions and it’s from Abruzzo that this wine hails. More specifically, it’s from the Terre di Chieti IGT (Indicazione Geografica […]

Wine: Wine Route Chardonnay Country: Spain Region: Valdepeñas Year: 2021 Grapes: Chardonnay ABV: 12% Bottle top: screw cap Price: £7.00 Purchased: Tesco Rating: Tasting Notes This is a distinctly average white wine. It’s part of the meal deal offering from Tesco, so we’ve had it a couple of times and I thought it was OK […]

Tasting Notes This fantastic Sancerre wine is produced and bottled by Fournier Père et Fils in the small village of Verdigny, close to the medieval hilltop town of Sancerre itself, in the Central Vineyards sub-region of the Loire Valley. Their family has been in the wine trade since 1926 and this wine reflects the near […]

Tasting Notes This wasn’t a wine we had chosen ourselves. I think it turned up as a substitution in our Tesco order one week, when one of the Wine Route wines that are included in the ‘meal deal’ offer was unavailable. We were hopeful that it might be better then the usual offerings that get […]

Tasting Notes This is a crisp white wine made from viognier grapes in the Rhone region of France by winemaker Pierre Latard and sold in the UK by Naked Wines. They were out of stock of the 2020 vintage at the time of writing, which is a shame because this is a fantastic wine. The […]

Tasting Notes This was my first dalliance with Liebfraumilch – ‘a timeless German classic‘ according to the label. I was well aware of it’s reputation as a sweet and cheap, unfashionable wine, so my expectations were set pretty low when I opened this bottle. However, I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t half as bad as […]

Tasting Notes This is another wine that’s available as part of the £10 ‘Finest Meal Deal’ offer at Tesco, wherein it’s great value considering it would be £7 for the bottle of wine alone. It’s a ‘crisp and refreshing‘ white wine from Chile, made from Sauvignon Blanc and Pedro Ximenez grapes, by the giant Concha […]

Tasting Notes I found this to be a fairly average white wine. There’s nothing particularly bad about it, but there’s nothing to make it stand out either. Hailing from the banks of the Murray River in South Australia, it is described as ‘fresh, zesty and herbaceous, with citrus and passionfruit aromas’, but I found it […]

Tasting Notes The bicycle logo initially attracted me to this wine because, well, I like cycling. Fortunately, it turned out to be a decent wine that I’d be happy enough to buy again, bicycle on the label or not. It’s from the Cono Sur winery in Chile and the story is that the vineyard workers […]

Tasting Notes This is one of the cheaper wines available in Tesco, although I mistakenly ordered a 50 cl bottle at £3.75. It is also available in a standard 75 cl bottle at £4.51. It’s decent value either way. The wine is produced in the Valle Central region of Chile by Viña Cono Sur S.A. […]