Principesco Brunello 2005 - Tesco

This was about £15. Brunello in a modern style. Now before you event start, Brunello is akin to a darker style of Chianti, so this one, in a ripe modern style was just a little too much of a good thing.

Principesco Brunello 2005 /10 £15-ish, Tesco

Barbaresco Cantino del Pino 2006 - Waitrose

Just an impression on this one, I didn't take notes.

Looks like this is trying to be a flagship wine for Mr Lewis... £26.99, fuck me!

Anyway, this opens light but puts on weight with air, it has immaculate balance and admittedly some class, but ultimately little complexity - so not really a £26.99 wine. Perhaps it may become so with time, I am not familiar with the producer and so do not want to comment upon ageability. But, ultimately, most of us go to the supermarket to buy wines to drink today, not in 10 years. And this is very, very nice indeed, but a little too simple for the £26.99 tariff. At half the price it would be a wow! wine. The Corsini 2007 Barbaresco currently on offer at Waitrose for £7.99 is not quite in the same class, but is way better than it should for the money if you give it 3 hours of air, I'd buy that instead....

Barbaresco Cantino del Pino 2006. 8.5/10 Waitrose £26.99

Tronquoy-Lalande 2004 St Estephe - Tesco

An OK wine, but not really a buy at this price (unlike the immaculate 2003)

This has complexity and some style, quite a heavy dose of salinity which may or may not be your thing, and lacks concentration by way of comparison to the superb 2003. No surprise there, 2003 was a legenday vintage for St Estephe. But in the supermarket, the prices are the same, whatever the vintage. And I can't really recommend this for the tariff.

Tronquoy-Lalande 2004 St Estephe, 6/10, £14.99, Tesco

Chateau Pey La Tour 2009 - Tesco

I had heard descriptions of the 2009, with some comparing the wines to Australian shiraz. But I didn't take them literally until now.

Quite reductive and very heavy going, this wine is barely recognisable as Bordeaux, I would have mistaken it for an overpowered supermarket Australian Cabernet lacking balance and refinement.

So for me, not very drinkable. I can see how some might quite like it though...

Chateau Pey La Tour 2009 - Tesco £7.49, 5/10.

Reserve Croix des Bardes 2009

Yet another half price wine. A 2009 Lalande de Pomerol, half price at Tesco (yeah right, it's actually worth 16 quid, we believe you.) £8.29.

Great colour on pouring, dark and concentrated. Creamy, very well integrated vanilla. Good concentration and lovely freshness on the nose. Excellent purity, lacks a little midpalate perhaps. And that weird savoury oak finish I also get on the Roc de Lussac from Sainsbury's. The first part of the finish is spicy and almost 'interesting' but then it dries out a little.

Nice bordeaux for the 8 quid or so, though there are maybe better wines from elsewhere for that money.

Reserve Croix des Bardes 2009, 7-7.5+/10, £8.29 Tesco on offer. Wouldn't buy at the full price.

Roc de Lussac 2009

Yeah, another one of those offers. £13.99 normally, but you can get 2 for 10 quid at the moment. So why is this wine always on at 'half price' ??

Only a fucking lunatic would pay £13.99 for this, Sainsbury's taking the piss yet again pretending that cheap swill is the bargain of the century, when in fact it is cheap swill.

However, at 2 for a tenner, it's probably the best supermarket £5 bordeaux out there right now. And the best vintage of this frequently-marked-down stuff I've tasted. So - excellent concentration, good balance, tastes like Bordeaux.

But like all other vintages of this wine, the oak is weird. The finish is very savoury and dry as a result. Bizarre.

Roc de Lussac 2009, 2 for £10, very good for that. 6.5/10, Sainsburys.

Torretta Nero d'Avola 2010

Another one on offer at Tesco.

Fans of Nero d'Avola from Sicily will be shocked. This is medium bodied and has bubblegum red-fruit candy flavours with vanilla. And it's only 12.5%. Not very Sicilian at all.

Actually, quite a nice wine for the £4.50 asked (on offer at half price.) Only if you want a light sweet candified style of wine though. It's Nero d'Avola. But not as we know it Jim.

No way would I pay what they state the full price is! Pay less than 5 quid or forget.

Torretta Nero d'Avola 2010 5.5/10 £4.49 on offer, Tesco.

Casillero del Diablo 2010

A terrific vintage of this wine, has all of the concentration and style we normally expect from this, but more refinement and with the jammy sweetness well in check, much moreso than I remember for vintages a couple of years older. Compared to previous vintages, this is more like a blend of the Cabernet wine with their Carmenere they do so well.

With robust spicy food this works really really well.

Gonna give it 7+/10. Very very cool indeed for the current Tesco price.

Casillero del Diablo 2010, £5.29 on offer, Tesco.

La Tour Haut Cassan 2005

One from the cellar, not available in the supermarket. Bought a couple of cases on a whim (cheap) as futures having loved the 2003

Closed, yes, but surprisingly light even so. The colour isn't really there, the concentration isn't what you'd expect, and the quality and complexity are not lurking in the background. A very nice wine by basic supermarket bordeaux standards, it does open up over a few hours, but I have to say, not quite living up to the billing as a Cru Bourgeois Superieur from a great vintage. Mind you I paid about 7 quid a bottle so I'm not complaining too much.

These wines are known for being backwards and going the distance. and Philippe Courrian has a reputation. So I'm gonna leave the rest for 5 years and see what happens.

Ocado - Stop Press!

Stop Press!!! Ocado selling Waitrose wine range and doing 25% off if you buy six, plus another £15 off if it is your first order. Now that means you can buy the Cune 2006 mentioned in the previous-post-but-one for less than £7 each for 6, which is a bit mad. Because that is a seriously nice wine. I'm ordering now... Offer only applies to wines purchased before April 1st. So get in quick.

Gran Sangre de Toro Reserva 2007

Think I got this from the Co-op. A Gran Sangre de Toro +, exactly what you'd expect from these guys, classy. Can't remember the price, but I'll give it 7+/10

Posh Wines from Waitrose

A couple of impressions from some posh bottles bought this year, didn't take notes at the time.

Larrivet Haut Brion 2004. A truly spectacular Graves, and just what the Graves is all about. Cigar box, immaculate purity and balance. This makes up for all of the Graves wannabees I've drunk recently which don't do the cigar-box. In case I am not making myself clear - here is my individual view of what the Graves terroir has to offer:

GRAVES IS A CIGAR BOX

GRAVES IS A CIGAR BOX

GRAVES IS A CIGAR BOX

GRAVES IS A CIGAR BOX

GRAVES IS A CIGAR BOX

IF IT DOESN'T DO THE CIGAR BOX THING, THEN IT'S NOT GRAVES AT ALL, ACTUALLY IT'S NO BETTER THAN IF SOMEONE JUST PISSED IN A WINE BOTTLE.

Glad I got that off my chest. Anyway, moving on, this is not cheap by supermarket standards at £25.99 but I have to say enjoyed this a lot more than many Bordeaux I've paid the wrong side of £50 for. It's a bit of a conundrum, because structurally this is old-school, non of your overdone alcoholic spoofulation here, but perfect weight, and spectacular balance and class.

However, there are subtle hints of coffee and chocolate, so some aspects of a modern flavour profile a la St Emilion, but without any of the other bad stuff that we usually associate with ultra-modern St Emilion or 'Parkerized' stuff. (not that that adjective has anything to do with Parker himself...)

Now then, make no mistake, this one is up there, I'm thinking second growth quality. There really are very few Bordeaux wines I have ever enjoyed as much as I enjoyed my first bottle of this, it fucking rocks.

To sum up, £25.99 Waitrose, 9+/10 and for once, worth every penny.

Cune Reserva Rioja 2006. A lovely vintage of this wine. Purity and balance, nothing rustic about this shit, and far more ready-to-drink than the 2004 previously stocked, which was brilliant but very tight. This is really really good. £11.99 Waitrose, 8.5/10

La Rioja Alta 2001 Vina Arana. Now you're talking, this is the real shit. If you like La Rioja Alta then you know that this winery manufactures wines with a very singular personality, and it does so within the context of a very recognisable house style. And so you know what to expect.

But this, for me, is one of their very best ever., this is what La Rioja Alta are all about. La Rioja Alta are old-school Rioja, light to medium-bodied, heavy on the oak (beautiful oak in perfect balance with vanilla in excelsis, nothing to do with over-oaked modern shit...) and with terrific aromatics. This has really good acidity and is a food wine. It has a fantastic cherry/red fruit profile and is somewhat Burgundian but with a real acidity and style which sets it apart.

I've had more than my share of Vina Ardanza, 904 and 890 Gran Reservas. But I enjoyed this 2001 Vina Arana more than any of them I think.... £19.95, 9/10.

So well done Waitrose. When I buy posh wine from supermarkets, I usually expect to pay over-inflated prices for off-vintage shit. But you turned the tables with these 3, this is what I drink wine for.

Carta Roja Gran Reserva 2004 - Sainsburys

A 2004 from Jumilla in a fancy bottle. Half price at the moment, and for once you can believe the full price quoted... this really is worth twelve quid.

This is light/medium-bodied and all about the plums and bluberries, plums on the nose, plums on the palate, lovely purity and balance, a little tannin on the finish and some sweetness. Nothing to do with Rioja or Ribera, this is a different world.... blind I would have actually pegged this as Northern Italy, or perhaps even an Aglianico. Not a wine for lovers of big concentrated wines, but as I said and it bears repeating, really lovely purity and balance - not what you expect for £5.99!

And it manages to have a very singular personality without being in any way eccentric. Run-of-the-mill supermarket swill this most definitely is not. So a really really interesting wine, and right now it is at an absolute killer price. If you're looking for a beautiful unusual expressive upmarket wine for a posh occasion, don't ignore this because it is £5.99, it's a far better wine than that price tag suggests. And whilst it is open for business when you first pull the cork, it improves significantly over the next couple of hours.

The coolest label as well.

Carta Roja Gran Reserva 2004 £5.99 on offer, 8.5/10 Sainsburys.

Fetzer California Shiraz 2008, Waitrose

Just an impression for this one as I didn't take notes during tasting. A slightly unusual drop but iuns a good way, powerful and heady as you might expect, but not overdone. Works well with food, if you are in the right mood. hanging out with the some dudes, not being to rude. 7/10. £7.79 Waitrose. Worth a try for something a little different.

Chateau Grand-Jour 2009

A splendid sample of Cotes de Bourg from Tesco, currently knocked down to £5.99.

This is not good ordinary claret, this is Tesco's good ordinary claret, and as such, dumps on similarly priced offerings from some of its more upmarket (ahem) competitors.

Beautiful nose of plums/cherries, very clean pure well balanced wine with black fruits and flowers.

The best cheapo bordeaux ever.

Chateau Grand-Jour 2009 7+/10 Tesco £5.99

Updated. Sorry, but as an example of a sexy young well-made bordeaux to accompany food, I underrated this. Balance is terrific, so pure, so cool, 8/10. Not complex, but immaculate in its own way.

Updated again, April 13th. Mistakenly bought at the full price as I had good memories, but forgot what it cost me. A minor disappointment for the twelve or so quid they have it at normally.

Co-op Fairtrade Malbec Reserva 2009

A very nice wine, but for me a little nondescript. Concentrated blackcurrant and creamy oak done in a Californian style, and done well for the price, but a designer wine lacking a little in personality and soul. Didn't rock my world. At this price, that's maybe too much to expect, but I'm not sure I'll buy again, even though it is good wine for the money. Unmemorable.

Co-op Fairtrade Malbec Reserva 2009 6-6.5/10 for quality £5.99.

Asda Extra Special Primitivo 2007

Not great this bottle, despite its IWSC silver sticker. Good concentration and pleasant nose, if totally lacking in freshness. But on drinking, this is weird oak lemon and licquorice juice with an eccentric finish.

Not for me, to my taste this is close to undrinkable and I won't be finishing my first glass.

Asda Extra Special Primitivo 2007 4/10 £4.50 on offer, Asda

OK - next day this has improved, but you'd better like your wines tasting like coffee and chocolateif you're going to drink this one..... 5.5-6/10 if this is your style.

Fuentespina - 2006 rib del duero crianza

Very good balance of oak, fruit, pepper, floral notes. Has a sherry undertone to it.
Class on the palate, but this needs a big vat of spag bog to accompany it, not great on its own.

thelema mountain red 2007

Marvellous every day wine for gluggin.
Really well balanced and enough power and fruit. wonderful finish. its aussie shiraz kind of thing, but with more balance and less harsh tannins.
At 8 quid, well woth a try. reminds me of uno fuera from yesteryear.

Chateau Lilian Ladouys 2007

I've always been a little underwhelmed by this St Estephe Chateau, and it's not getting any cheaper (£12.99 on offer at Waitrose, reduced from a hefty £17.99)

When I first poured this I was surprised at the density of colour for a 2007. This is dark, ripe and concentrated, has the classic pencil shavings on the nose, and right now tastes a little tart and overdone. The tannin is overshadowing the dark blackcurrant fruit today, though this settles a little with air. The finish is not convincing.

I suppose the real question is - why buy this when you can still get some fantastic St Estephe 2003s for similar money? 2007 is a light vintage across Bordeaux, whilst 2003 is a different animal. It was a notoriously hot summer and the wines from Bordeaux were of mixed quality, but in regions such as St Estephe where the soil is predominantly clay the soil was able to retain enough moisture and some stunning wines were produced. Petit Bocq 2003 is a terrific wine, as is Le Crock 2003, Le Boscq 2003 (currently available at the Co-op) and Tronquoy-Lalande 2003 (currently available at Tesco)

If you need something from Waitrose, the Liversan 2007 is currently on offer at £8.99, probably better for drinking now than this Lilian Ladouys (and far more approachable then the hard-as-nails 2006 Liversan in case you had that wine and were put off...)

Chateau Lilian Ladouys 2007 6.5-7.5/10 £12.99 (on offer) Waitrose.

Jaboulet Parallele 45 2007

Tried the 2007 for a second time and it is a fabulous wine, tannins having settled down a bit in comparison to the last bottle tried. Not showing much in terms of complexity yet but it has terrific purity and class, and is full of dark ripe fruit with some chocolate overtones. I'll probably cellar a few of these.

Jaboulet Parallele 45 2007 7.5-8.5/10 (8.5 for the first bottle tasted, 7.5 for the second where the tannins poked out a little more) £6.74 on offer at Waitrose, a terrific bargain.

La Chiave Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2009

Yet another little 2009 Montepulciano. If you crave Aussie concentration but want old-world class, and want to spend around £5, then Montepulciano is where it is at. This is quite good, but it has some stiff competition right now.

This one has a reductive (sulfur-esque) nose might blow off with air. Sweet and concentrated but with no finish. I will give this 5.5/10

La Chiave Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2009 5.5/10 £4.99 The Co-op

Saluti Italia Vino Rosso

Kind of the opposite to the last post.

The label makes this look like a Tesco Value wine. Your Bordeaux-loving buddies will not be mistaking this for a grand cru classe anytime soon. And on opening it is a simple affair with just a minor hint of volatile acidity, minor enough to lend interest rather than spoil, but nevertheless a 'cheap piss' warning shot across our bows.

But once you get into this wine, it is terrific. No-one will mistake it for anything other than a cheapo-special to be drunk within 12 months. But once you get into it there it really has personality in spades and such a distinctive explosion of raspberry and plum on the finish. There's nothing quite like this out there and it is just so, so cool. Better with food than without, a legendary pizza wine. Cracking booze and great fun.

Saluti Italia Vino Rosso £4.99 Waitrose 6-7/10. perhaps 6 for quality, but maybe even 8 for personality and enjoyment value. A memorable wine.

Porcupine Ridge Syrah 2009

I normally steer clear of South African wines, they always seem to have that astringent 'Pinotagey' flavour on the finish, no matter how fine otherwise.

But tonight I dipped my toe in the water again with a bottle of Porcupine Ridge Syrah 2009.

This is an excellent wine in a full-on style. Heaps of chocolate and glycerine, it is somewhere between a traditional McLaren Vale What-Have-You and an ultra-modern St Emilion. One for the Bourneville lovers. Not my style though. There is a trace of that weird 'made in Sith Ifrica' flavour here, but well hidden. A bit soulless, a bit of a designer wine.

Porcupine Ridge Syrah 2009 6-/7+/10 depending on your vibe, £7.99 Waitrose. The 7+ reflects in some ways the quality, but I didn't really enjoy it that much.

Torre del Falco Nero di Troia 2007

Another southern Italian red, made fro the indigenous grape variety Nero di Troia. Didn;t take notes at the time so impressions only - this has dark fruits, a very pronounced liquorice component and a dry finish. Did I say liquorice? Nice wine though and something a bit different. Try one before you buy a case, this is a very singular wine. A good thing in my book...

Torre del Falco Nero di Troia 2007 6.5/10 £7.99 Waitrose.

McGuigan Cabernet Sauvignon 2009

This is OK, but unfortunately just more of the same generic Oz gloop which infiltrates our supermarkets. Full bodied with a tart finish.

McGuigan Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 6/10 £7.99 The Co-op.

Asda Extra Special Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2008

Sadly, noticed the fabulous Asda ES Barbera d'Asti is back to its prix normale.

Thank god, then, that we have this delicious Montepulciano d'Abruzzo at £4.50 to replace it.

Excellent, cheap Montepulciano is normally a concentrated red with some residual sugar. This is no exception, Christ on a bike is this a good wine for £4.50 if you like it thick and sweet.

For Montepulciano lovers, this is not quite as cool as the Waitrose La Piuma 2009. I'd like to taste them side by side.

Asda Extra Special Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2008 6+/10 £4.50

Co-op Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon 2009

This is terrific. All of the things I often find hard work about Chilean cabernet (too much of everything, thick, spoofulated, tannic) do not apply here.

This is lighter and less overtly sweet than your average Chilean cabernet (which is a good thing.)

In fact it has the level of concentration and body I expect from a top-notch Bordeaux, though of course not the class, and it does lack complexity and a finish. However, though it's a simple wine, there is real purity and freshness here... qualities often woefully lacking in Chilean cabernet at 3x the price.

So a great little wine for £4.99, and if you must have a good cheap cabernet-based wine this is the one. It has backbone along with its simple virtues, and that is what makes a Bordeaux a Bordeaux, even when it isn't a Bordeaux. Anyhow, although pretty simple and straightforward, I'm still giving it 7/10 for enjoyment value.

Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 7/10 £4.99 The Co-op.

Recchia Bardolino 2009

This is a light, strawberry fruit wine with no real distinguishing features. There is a hint of volatility in the acidity, not a food wine, not a glugger, not too offensive but nothing to write home about.

Recchia Bardolino 2009 5/10 £5.99 Waitrose.

Chateau Grand Jour 2007

One of my first experiences of Bordeaux was back in the late eighties when I bought a £5 bottle of Chateau de Passedieu 1996 from Oddbins, and a terrific bottle of wine it was. Anyway, I digress....

Yet another bargain-basement Bordeaux from Cotes de Bourg.

Dark almost inky colour is promising, actually a very good nose (for a £6 Bordeaux) with real freshness, dark fruits and cedar, but the palate is too light and a bit too far inclined towards the oak-juice end of the spectrum (especially on the finish) as cheap Bordeaux so often is. The dark cherry fruit is there, fighting its way through though...

After a few hours open, it's still a 'crying game' style of wine. You fancy it at first, until you realise what's happening. Allowing the wine to breathe allows the nose, flavour and purity to be very seductive on entry, but that impression is quickly destroyed once the finish kicks in and you realise what you've actually got.

I hear it's on offer in some Tesco stores 'reduced from £12 or so.' Don't get taken in, this is not a fucking £12 wine. For me personally, there are other wines I would prefer to buy for the £6

If you must have a £6-something Bordeaux it's OK based on this bottle, as £6 Bordeaux goes these days. If Bordeaux is not your thing, then I probably wouldn't bother. The quality of the finish requires food to mask it, this is not for solo contemplation.

Some real interest here in a fundamentally faulty wine. Whilst disappointing in some ways, still beats yet another glass of Jacob's Creek I reckon.

Chateau Grand Jour 2007 Cotes de Bourg 6-7/10 Tesco £6.79

Gran Lopez Tinto 2009

It's been a good couple of months for purchasing cheap plonk. This is another cheapie which has just blown me away. Needs about an hour to open up after pulling the cork. What you get is a modern but not 'supercharged' style of wine, very refined with flavours of raspberry ripple (though in a 'savoury' manner) and figs, a texture which tends towards the glycinery end of the scale but reigned in just at the right moment, all in balance, and a subtle but superb nose of camphor and black cherry. Brilliant winemaking here.

For the money, this is OK to drink on its own, but really comes into its own at the dinner table. Lovely purity, lovely finish, a fine wine, so yet another stunningly good wine for less than five quid, and that is the normal price without discount...

Gran Lopez Tinto Campo de Borja. In the right context, if you allow it to breathe, 8/10 £4.79 Waitrose.

(The La Piuma Montepulciano 2009 from Waitrose and the Asda Extra Special Barbera reviewed recently are two other terrific wines available at a similar price point recently, though these other two are on offer. All are surprisingly serious wines. Spain and Italy can be such treasure-troves...)

Yalumba Organic 2009 South Australia Shiraz

A very nice wine which somehow lacks anything really distinctive about it. It needs a few hours open to mellow, then it's actually quite a soft wine with a fairly spicy countenance.

Yalumba Organic 2009 Southa Australia Shiraz, £8.99 Waitrose

Montes Aplha Cab Sauv 2008

My fav cab sauv for under a tenner, or maybe £20...

Big, bold and brash with mint, fruit, oak all in a full on style. A class above any aussie stuff i have had for the price. It may have a slightly sour finish and taste very young, but this grips your senses like no other. This wine is about as reserved as a coked up stripper.

Eat with big dishes and red meats. I can personally vouch for religous experiences , drinking it with......

Beef Madras.
Shepherds pie.
Spag Bog.
Roast beef/lamb sunday lunch.
Delivery pizzas.


10/10. If you have a remote interest in big new world reds, you should be well pleased at 8.50 a bottle.

The Co-Op Cotes du Rhone 2008

You know, this is a very pleasant wine. Simple, hell yes, but pure and typical at the same time. Atypically medium bodied for a cotes-du-rhone, if you want to spend less than a fiver and want something that tastes like a southern rhone wine then this is OK. More interesting wines around for the dough, but somehow I'm still a fan cos it works. I will buy again sometime.

The Co-Op Cotes du Rhone 2008 5.5-6/10 £4 quid something.

Warra Bay Cabernet Sauvignon 'Vineyard Selection' 2008

Only bought this because it was on offer at about 5 quid. Very pleasant indeed, very good wine for the price, can't complain, rather good actually, but so nondescript....I could not even be arsed to figure out what flavours or nose it was presenting. I doubt I'll buy again because good as it is, it is also eminently forgettable.

Warra Bay Cabernet Sauvignon 'Vineyard Selection' 2008 7/10 £5 on offer at Asda.

Jaboulet Parallele 45 2008

2007 was a great vintage but the Jaboulet Paralelle 45 from that year was hard work on release (which is not to say it will not become a great wine)

This is more the ticket if you are looking for instant supermarket gratification. Perfect balance, concentration, it has personality and structure too. I will give this 8/10, a serious-ish wine.

Jaboulet Parallele 45. Waitrose. 8/10. 6 squid something on offer

Chateau Le Crock St Estephe 2003

Not in the supermarkets recently, but lest I forget, a super wine.

Another 9/10 for a 2003 St Estephe Cru Bourgeouis. I should add that Petit Bocq 2003 is also fantastic.

Pinot Noir Ropiteau 2007

Another surprise, a vin de pays from my local boozer 'La Parisienne' and the Ropiteau co-operative.

This house red is a sweet concentrated effort, with as much concentration as your average scorched shitty £20 US bottle of this grape but without the over-roasted qualities, and also without the pukey diluted qualities of your average cheap burgundy. Now it is sweet (lots of residual sugar, but all in balance...) Really classy and worth a go. A notoriously difficult grape in an unfamed terroir, yet a great result.

Everyone knows that great burgundy can have big concentration, but, unlike Bordeaux, tannic backbone and resulting structure are less in the picture. And this pinot follows that same rule. Dump a teaspoon of brown sugar and a slug of Ribena into a decent Meo-Cazumet, and you will probably nail the Ropiteau Pinot Noir flavour.

Pinot Noir Ropiteau 2007, 8-/10, Gimme a slam after midnight.

Asda Extra Special Barbera d'Asti 2007

This is made by Araldica and is on offer for £4.50 at the moment.

And for that you get a very classy wine. This one is not in the light, ethereal style of some cheap Barberas which make their way over this neck of the woods. This has concentration and tannic clout. A wine with some bollocks.

And a wine of extraordinary class for the money, in fact I'm going to say the best £4.50 wine available today. Bramble and blueberry fruit, a very refined incense/black cherry nose, tannic clout, real structure, better after 2 hours than it was when first opened.

This is a magnificent wine for £4.50 (the offer price mind you...) Drunk solo, the tannins do poke out, I reckon today those (quite nice) tannins make it a food wine, but it really does have some balancing fruit and concentration. I might pack a couple away for 5 years as an experiment. I love it. It's a fucking good wine!

Asda Extra Special Barbera d'Asti 2007 (Araldica) 7.5+/10 £4.50 on offer Asda

Duclaux Cote Rotie Maison Rouge 2006

Didn't take any detailed notes for this, but just a terrific wine.

Now last Saturday night I had been considering getting hold of a nice Chateauneuf-du-Pape just to match the spicy, peppery, incorrect style of Bolognese sauce I routinely serve. I did have a Chapoutier La Bernardine in mind but then realised the merchant I would have got it from closed at 4 on Saturdays. And it was already 5, so I went local and got this one instead....

Anyway, we gave it 4 hours of air (which it needed) and, whilst on opening it was a little disjointed, closed and perhaps oak-dominated (in a subtle way though) with the air we gave it the wine was stunning, so well balanced, lovely concentration in exactly the right way. As you would expect from a good Cote Rotie the aromatics were quite sublime, even though somewhat less 'in yer face' with this particular bottle than for some other Cote Rotie producers...

I'm sure we're drinking it too young, but with airtime it does drink beautifully, even at this age, so I have so no complaints...

To sum up..... this is a 'Crying Game' style of wine, a lovely, soft feminine wine, but with great big bollocks.

It ain't cheap, the wrong side of £40, but for this quality I'm OK with that.... anyway... 9+/10.

Bressy-Macon Rasteau 2007

A lovely old-school style of Rasteau. This one belongs at the dinner table - it needs air and food and is a savoury, high-quality vino, but not for those who want something with fruit sweetness just to sip on a Friday night. Not one to drink on its own, and to me its savoury qualities made it somewhat more reminiscent of a Cotes du Rousillon than a Southern Rhone. Stylish though...

Didn't take detailed notes, but with rich wet meaty food 7/10, very nice.

La Piuma 2009 - Waitrose

A terrific little Montepulciano d'Abruzzo which is to say the least a bit more ripe and sexy than its Italian country wine designation might imply. This bottle of the 2009 really excels itself. Blind I'm sure I would mistake this for California merlot or similar and perhaps quite a good one. A step up from previous vintages - this is sweet, ripe, concentrated, smooth and round. Parker haters will hate it.

Anyway, a truly great bottle of vino-collapso with big tits available for less than a fiver on offer at Waitrose.

La Piuma 2009 - a controversial 7.5+/10 - l but I love it - Waitrose £4.69 on offer.

Chateau de l'Estang Cotes de Castillon 2006

I'm a cheerful chappie this evening because I just put my Blogger user interface language to Vietnamese for a laugh and now I can't figure out how to turn it back to English. So it is a good job that I have the Chateau de l'Estang Cotes de Castillon 2006 to cheer me up......I-Publish Ang Post

Anyway, I digress, this is basic yet impressive - has nice concentration, purity and a lovely dose of black cherry fruit and savoury acidity. A lovely sexy little wine with some dinner-party class to boot.

Chateau de l'Estang Cotes de Castillon 2006, in a certain way somewhat basic, yet also very well done. and just because it's my type of thing, 7.5/10.... £8.99 The Co-op.

Chateau Saint Germain Bordeaux Superieur 2008

Well, this is why you shouldn't buy cheap Bordeaux. It's just oak juice, matured in clapped out old oak barrels. It will probably go down the sink. Dire fucking piss it is.

Chateau Saint Germain Bordeaux Superieur 2008 3.5/10 Asda on offer at £5.

Wolf Blass Yellow Label 2008

I've had a chequered history with this wine. Back in the late nineties when I discovered wine and became an alcoholic, I was really quite taken with this stuff.

I didn't touch it for several years, but returned sometime in the mid-noughties, after my palate had been corrupted by the likes of Lafite, Haut-Brion, La Mouline, Ducru Beaucaillou, Leoville Las Cases etc. At that time I thought Yellow Label, along with it's stablemate 'Presidents Selection' was a very industrial, chemical style of wine and didn't bother again until now.

Well, the pendulum has swung back a little the other way. Yes it is industrial commercial swill, but it is industrial commercial swill 'par excellence.' Very nice blackcurrant fruit, excellent concentration and balance without being OTT. A nice style of Oz Cabernet.

Wolf Blass Yellow Label 2008 7/10 Asda £7.99.

Castillo La Paz 2009

Hey, Winebums hit 100 posts. Here's to the next 100.

Festooned with bronze and silver stickers denoting its success in sundry wine contests, the Castillo La Paz is no glugger. Should you attempt to glug this one, you will find a weird but cool nose of figs, and a very thick glycerin-ey texture combined with medium concentration.

So this comes into its own with robust food where the structure and length works and it moves up a couple of notches as a result.

Castillo La Paz 2009 7.5/10 (as a food wine) 6-6.5/10 otherwise. Waitrose, £6.50.

Pata Negra Reserva 2004

An inoffensive wine, all very pleasant but really quite dull. Nice purity and flavoured in a Spanish tempranillo style somewhat in a dilute Ribera del Duero style, but nothing much else to speak of. It's actually a reasonable quality wine so I can't give it a completely shit mark, but it just does nothing for me... I think it's the short finish that blows it.

Pata Negra Reserva 2004 6/10 £6.49 Sainsbury's

Mayu Syrah - Elqui Valley 2008

This is a Chilean Syrah, somewhat in vogue with the Decanter crew. It's quite classy with notes of coffee, fig, vanilla, and black cherry. Not your typical sugar-bomb, this has some structure behind it as well as being quite an unusual wine. Not going mad over it but I'll give it a 7.5/10

Mayu Syrah - Elqui Valley 2008 7.5/10 Waitrose £7.99

Asda Extra Special Chianti Classico Riserva 2005

First impressions: not really up to the standard of a good CCR this one. OK concentration and nice but simple dark cherry fruit, but on its own the finish is shorter than Ronnie Corbett, and there's not much more to say.

Somehow, after a couple of hours open, and with food this integrates fabulously well, quite a surprise after the initial reaction. So keeping an open mind.

- On opening: quite nice, but more interesting wine available for this price.

- After a couple of hours, with spiced food (samosas) a terrific food wine. Let it breathe and eat with something mildly spiced and this really works.

Jury out then...may revisit. But no-one will ever mistake this for a great Chianti Classico Riserva.

Asda Extra Special Chianti Classico Riserva 2005 6-7+ /10 £7.99

The broken fishplate 2008 d'arenberg sauv blanc

Aussie sauv blanc and its shite for the £10 price tag.
Its not bad wine, but it is sickly sweet and has a savoy cabbage finish.
you can understand why it isnt a fiver, but it doesnt drink very well at all.
Anyone who calls a wine "the broken fishplate" is a tw@.

5/10 - lots of flavours going on, but then so does drinking a pint of puke.

San Gimignano Sangiovese 2006/2007 Passoni

Superb italian wine currently 7.99 at majestic.
i always buy chianti hoping for the perfect marraige of italian food with red wine. Having had such variants and nothing really special, i thought i would give this a go.
This was full of cherry, firm tannins and good oak with a good gluggable quality to it.
Highly recommended.
9/10

Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir 2008

Decided to try this stuff after the majestic manager thought that this was the jewel in cloudys crown. Currently 20 a bottle if you buy 2 at majestic. Well was he right?

errm, not sure. like the sauv blanc, there is not much power to it, but what it does is very different and very classy. It looks like pinot noir, with a light purple colour and smells like it too.
However, when tasting it,you have to try hard to get the flavours. I like reds which punch in the face, but this doesnt. However......

the texture of it in the mouth is like nothing i have had before and it can only be described as fantastic. It feels like you are drinking liquid glass, and coats the mouth really well. it has a long subtle finish but it requires a lot of concentration to get it. It reminded me of the 1989 chateax montrose in texture, but not in taste. It is just so velvety smooth.

It is worth a try but this is like marmite. People will either love it or hate it. I think with a thai curry or similar it would come alive a lot more.

Like their 2009 sauv blanc, there is something about this wine which oozes class. I get the sauv blanc, but dont quite get this. Its a game of two halves here. initially brilliant, but wheres teh fruit and taste??

This was the 2008. i have a 2009 to try so will post up to see if that hits the spot.

7/10 -

vavasour Sauv blanc 2008

Quite strong flavours going on here, but similar to the ned, its just great wine. They are quite similar although this is better in my opinion. It is nice and crisp and has plenty of tropical fruit going on. top notch stuff. majestic <£10

9/10

The Ned sauv blanc 2009

This deserves a 9/10 as it is currently on offer at 5.79 at majestic. It doesnt have the sharpness, mineral like taste like my favourites, but for under 6 for nz sauv blanc it really is hard to go wrong.
Plenty of fruit, good sauv blanc characteristics, but in a blind taste i probably would have thought it to be a chardonnay. Brilliant white wine for under 6 quid sums it up perfectly.

9/10 for the value

Saint Clair 2009 sauv blanc

This was about a tenner from majestic. rave reviews, but not doing it for me. just the same as any other sauv blanc. Not bad, but nothing different. I would recommend the vavasour, or the villa maria over this. About as good as the montana, which isnt great but isnt bad

7/10 -

Mondavi pinot noir 2008

Grabbed this from majestic on offer at a tenner from 15. None left now, a real shame.
This one surprised me a lot having never really been into wines from USA. Expecting the usual peppery spicey lightly coloured wine which typifies pinot noirs (that i have drunk), this was deep coloured like a cab sauv and tasted like 20 quid + chateaneuf or maybe a classy burgundy.
Beautifully coherant wine with enough tannins, fruit, cigar box aromatics.

9/10 - a shame there is none left. think montes alpha cab sauv, with less power and a bit more together.

Villa Maria pinot noir 2008

This is ok. Typical pinot noir, but nothing special really. Not bad at 8 quid, but this is an estate pushing out wines which sell on brand alone. Far better available, but it does what nz pinot noir should do. Drink if you cant be arsed to find better.

6/10

Cloudy Bay 2009

Going against the grain here with many reviews online, as many think there is better value to be had.
Having glugged most of nz, i still rate this as one of the best.
The 2009 does lack taste, but it makes up for that in purity and finish. Whilst it does not have the clout, or fruit of many, it is simply beautiful stuff. A real mineral taste backed up by just enough fruit, it goes down very well. Almost unwine like. They are doing something different here.
A worthy 9/10. Not for everyone, but for me its the best NZ sauv blanc, with the nautilus a close second.

The Wine Bums Rating Scale

Famous wine critics generally publish their rating scale, so you can know what they are thinking. So the WineBums are here to help by offering The WineBums Scale of Wine Pleasuring....

Anyway..... on the WineBums scale:

0-3.5/10. Rest assured, this wine is fucking dire. It is undrinkable. You should already have consumed at least one bottle, preferably two, of 'something else' before laying into this abject piss.

4-4.5/10. This wine is basically toilet. So this is a quite shit wine. But if you just want to get fucked, as opposed to drinking something pleasant, this wine will probably do the job. Check the % on the label first.

5/10-6.5/10. This wine is just about acceptable to 'quite good.' At the lower end of the scale, a bottle of Black Tower might even merit a 5/10 on a good day. At the upper end, a poor vintage of Guigal Cotes du Rhone may only get a 6+/10, but a good vintage of Guigal Cotes du Rhone should move up to the next level...which is...

7/10-8.5/10. This wine is going to be at least good to really pretty impressive. A good Bordeaux Cru Bourgeois might be found in this category.

9/10 upwards. This is the absolute fucking dog's cock of supermarket wine, and ranks with classed growth bordeaux from a very good to excellent vintage. Sadly, wines in this category are usually not cheap and frequently cost twenty quid or more. So you can get much more fucked for much less money on other wines.

Reserve des Hospitaliers Cairanne 2007

No surprise, another lovely wine from Reserve des Hospitaliers. Exactly what you would expect from an excellent grenache/syrah based Cotes du Rhone, powerful, maybe a bit alcoholic, blue/black fruits and white pepper. Certainly does what it says on the tin. With air time takes on additional sophistication and a hint of dark chocolate and spices. Although this is maybe less complex/powerful than Guigal/Parallelle 45, it is purer and better balanced, and after an hour or a classier wine for me if you are having posh food.

Reserve des Hospitaliers Cairanne 2007 7+/10 Waitrose £7 on offer

Chapoutier Cotes du Roussillon 2007 - Tesco

This wine is from the deep south of France and has a pronounced liquorice and spice component on the palate, pretty well pushing the black/red fruit into the background. A very savoury flavour profile though a hint of saccharine sweetness becomes apparent in the finish, as does the tannic kick. This is quite a powerful wine and needs robust food really. It is well made, but not in a style I particularly care for. I am going to try to keep objective, so I'll give it a 7/10

[Edit] The next day this has mellowed vary nicely and has improved. The above observations still apply, but the wine has become rounder and more approachable, and lost the astringent aspects in the finish.

Chapoutier Cotes du Roussillon 2007 7/10 Tesco £8.99

Tesco Finest Nero d'Avola 2008

I am a sucker for Southern Italian reds, and this is a lovely Nero d'Avola, displaying the slightly bitter black cherry notes somehow with a core of sweetness on the finish at the same time. Bottled by Cantine Settesoli, this is quite a focussed, pure, refined example, not 'rustic' as some of these can be. Not much in the way of complexity but excellent concentration. Astringent finish dissipates with air, quite a good glugger...

Tesco Finest Nero d'Avola 2008, 7/10 £6.50 Tesco

Gabbiano Chianti 2007 - Asda

Typical chianti flavours, this is medium-bodied, round and soft, and somehow lacks the usual chianti-esque acidicity but it still works. Not a wine with great structure or backbone. But you know what - this is a really good easy-drinking wine for £4.

Gabbiano Chianti 2007 5.5-6/10 Asda £4 on offer

Chateau Fourcas-Dumont 2005 - Tesco

From Listrac-Medoc, between Margaux and Pauillac. This one is from a great vintage but is drinking very well now, and has a very singular dark black cherry liqeur flavour with maybe a hint of fig and a somewhat floral nose. One-dimensional rather than complex, but in a good way, it just gives it focus. This is a refined wine - it may be a little hot, the acidity and tannin kicks in straight away, but it doesn't upset me too much here, it's done with style, kind of fits with the general vibe. There is a little wood on the finish. Structure and style set this firmly in Bordeaux. Despite the cool modern flavours, the texture separates it completely from the 'New Parker School.' Very nice wine, and drinks well with food or on its own. A 'Superb Bordeaux Glugger' this one...and the last glass is more interesting than the first. Which is always a good sign.

Chateau Fourcas-Dumont 2005 8-8.5+ /10 £14.99 Tesco

Chapoutier Gigondas 2006

When these Chapoutier mid-level wines are good, they are really good. This has a beautiful floral nose with just a hint of rhone pepper, and has lovely softness, balance, structure and purity. It's not impressively in your face - it's just classy and works really well with food. And finishes beautifully.

Chapoutier Gigondas 2006 8.5/10 £15.99 Tesco

Nautilus Sauvignon Blanc 2008 Marlborough

Nothing short of unbeleivable at under a tenner at majestic currently. Even at 10.99 i will be buying this again.
Exactly what you want of sauv blanc, but with razor sharp prominent citrus refreshement. finish is brilliant and has enough clout to it to allow it to be siped with food.
I prefer this to the 2009 cloudy bay as an everyday drinker at half the price, having drunk this after the cloudy.
Stonking expression of new zealand sauv blanc. Ticks all the boxes and this one is sure to rise in price once it becomes known.

10/10 - the dogs knackers for the price

http://www.majestic.co.uk/find/category-is-Wine/category-is-New+Zealand/Special+Offer-is-Special+Offer/product-is-37065#reviews

penfolds koonunga hill "seventy six" 2008

shiraz cab sauv that is better than the wold blass and the normal brand penfolds.
Paid 8.50 for it and well worth a punt at that price.
Similar to wolf blass but more mint and much better fruit and general class.
Decent finish and up there with the montes alpha for class but without the harsh tannins.
14.5% doesnt really show on the pallate. Great stuff. A must for under a tenner. Blows away the presidents selection stuff for les money.
Available at majestic with 20% off currently.
9/10 - for the price, not much better new world wine about

Bad day at the office - Asda Primitivo 2006 'Extra Special'

Bad day at the office. But what better to do in compensation than visit Asda and make a contribution to the world of wine journalism.

Asda Primitivo 2006 'Extra Special'

On opening this had too much vanilla and astringent old-woody tannin. Now it just has too much dry old-woody tannin. And it is a little hot. But I'm not a hater at £4. At all. One of the better £4 wines you can buy. Needs food.

Asda Primitivo 2006 'Extra Special' £4 5.5-6/10

Campo Viejo 2005

Widely available - can't remember where I got it from. Nice wine but pretty lean in comparison to the 04 (which was very modern and OTT but brilliant) This, to me, is not quite as good, but the style is so different.... Anyway, 6.5/10 for enjoyment now though undoubtedly a classy wine.

Muriel Rioja - Asda

No vintage on this one so I guess it is NV.

Now I've previously had a Muriel Reserva 2001 which I didn't write up, but I was very impressed.. But for 4 quid this is great.

Lightweight and a little fruit backwards certainly, but in this context in no way a fault. Slightly drying tannins on the finish from previously-used wood, but a lovely tannin quality.

Exotic boysenberry-style/red fruit/slightly smoky nose. Fabulous balance and purity. Finishes short? But who cares for £4? And with powerful food, (eg the robust spicy beef stew I am eating right now...) the faults dissipate and this becomes almost 'quite serious' - I might even 'beef it up' to 8/10 if you're going to have the right grub with it.

And that is some serious praise for a £4 wine. I will taste another bottle from another Asda to see if this is consistent. But right now this seems like an absolute killer wine for the money.

Muriel Rioja - Asda 7/10 £4

10/7/2010 another bottle. If anything making a better impression than last time. Not on offer anymore though so will cost you the princely sum of £5.28 Magnificent wine for that price, 7.5/10 but needs food, you'll get away with it as a glugger but it won't be in its element.

31/07/2010 A couple of bottles at a party. Definitely holding its own amongst the £5-£10 competition, but reinforcing the notion that this one needs food. Without food, as a party glugger, 6-6.5/10

Asda Extra Special Valpolicella Ripasso 2007

A perfectly pleasant wine but this one may disappoint those who are looking for a good Valpolicella Ripasso. This is in a dark ripe black-cherry style and lacks a bit of midpalate and weight - those criticisms are relative to a good valpolicella ripasso though, this is pretty cool for a 6 quid wine. In particular, this has excellent purity and works really nicely as a food wine.

Asda Extra Special Valpolicella Ripasso 2007. 6/10 £6 Asda.

Campo Viejo Crianza 2006 - Asda

A lovely wine. Lacks the refinement of its bigger brothers for sure, but also lacks some of their atypical in-yer-face quality. Nevertheless this is in a modern style, and pursuers of old school cigar box Rioja may be disappointed. What this is is a lovely Rioja with modern flavours, but which tends towards the lean rather than the velvety end of the wine spectrum (as old-school Rioja does.) And excellent with food.

Campo Viejo Crianza 2006 - 6+/10, Asda £5.79

Piccini Chianti Riserva 2006 Sigillo Rosso - The Co-op

Reduced from 8.99 to 5.99, a nice typical chianti. Correct, but nothing mindblowing.

Les Emirs 2005 Clos St Thomas

Lebanese wine that imho, trounces the musar. tastes like £40 bordeaux.
Reminds me v much of the reserve de comtesse 1996 , classy stuff, rich in tannins, good with food.
needs a good breathe, but at £15 is v v good.

8.5/10 - get it down yer gullit

Trinacria Rosso Sicilia - Waitrose £3.99

No vintage indicated on this one.

A lovely wine for £3.99, and almost the antithesis of what I expect from Sicily. This is quite pure and well-balanced, light to medium-bodied, and almost like a burgundy, though with some residual sugar. Pretty strawberry and raspberry flavours. will make an excellent summer glugger.

Trinacria Rosso Sicilia. 6-6.5/10. Waitrose £3.99

Ibericos Crianza 2007 - Waitrose

This one is possibly a Rioja for enthusiasts of Bordeaux (i.e. it is in a Torres style, which is not surprising considering that it is made by Torres. But it is still Rioja, softer and less structured than Bordeaux...)

After last night's excesses I cannot really be arsed to describe this further. Except to say that it is a lovely wine with purity, a little structure in there but no harsh edges. Really seriously gorgeous. And drinking perfectly now.

Ibericos Crianza 2007. 8.5+/10, Waitrose, 7-pounds-something, reduced from 8.99. Brilliant wine.

Blackburn and James Merlot 2007

From Paso Robles, California.

Now Paso Robles is a seriously, seriously posh wine-producing district in Cal-if-orn-i-ay. So I was somewhat....though very pleasantly....surprised to see a wine from Paso Robles for £7.99 in the Co-Op.

This Merlot is a really, really dark wine. In a funny way this could have reminded me of a Californian Nero d'Avola...if such a thing had ever existed.

Anyway...on the nose, this wine puts the Black in Blackcurrant, but is somehow more extreme than blackcurrant. As an avid consumer of porno videos, anything that puts the black in black of course gets my vote. A very fine, dark sweet exotic nose. Hefty tannins on the palate but very fine for a wine of this price point. And, no longer than a mere 30 seconds after I took my first sip and wrote that last sentence, I now have to say those 'very fine' tannins are very bloody searing tannins. Fine they remain, but shit are they searing.....on the finish obviously...hence the delay in not getting them into my first sentence. I type as I drink....

Controversially, I can't place the fruit on this one. Normally we wine-guru-pretenders (I just drink this shit, so don't call me an expert...) refer to the fruit of a cabernet/merlot based wine using descriptors such as 'cassis' or 'blackcurrant', then maybe bring in other more unusual traits such as kirsch or red fruits depending on the origin, style and terroir relating to the wine in question.

But this bastard tastes like an alien landed in LA, brought a pile of some fucking seriously abstract fruit from his home planet, and found a job with Robert Mondavi, (obviously he was pretending to be a regular dude using his shapeshifting powers...)

As it pans out, the weird interplanetary grape-replacement fruit he possibly then backhanded to Blackburn and James actually ended up being some truly excellent shit!

(By the way...for the benefit of the politically correct amongst you, firstly I hope that you all die soon. But in the unfortunate event you stay alive long enough to be reading, then I do actually know that aliens do not have gender. I am simply using the word 'he' in place of 'they' to accommodate the language understanding of the majority of earth people.... And absolutely no offence at all is intended to you abject miserable politically-correct fuckers. But if you do happen to be politically correct, then I do hope you die very soon.)

The closest earth-description I can muster is like a more extreme alien clone of black cherry. This wine is harsh to drink now because of the tannic kick on the finish. But no doubt about this being quality. Amazingly fresh nose + smooth tannins + purity and impeccable balance + enough concentration = lets see what happens in the cellar. The balance and purity on this thing really is extraordinary for a cheap wine. But what the fuck do I know? You really need to ask David fucking Icke.

Finally....will the Greys come before 2012 and furnish our cellars with a vast array of superlative old vintages of this? Perhaps the Greys will teach us how to taste their wine? I wonder what would Robot Parker think?

p.s. I give this 8/10. You can get it at the Co-op.

[edit] Hi Edna, Graeme de Menthe here, I found the 2008 recently drunk a bit thinner and give it 7/10. But it still possesses its unique qualities, which you so eloquently describe.

torres vina sol 2008 tempranillo

Cracking stuff this. Lovely glugger. not as harsh or as tannic as many and has a real velvety texture to it. Never been disappointed with the torres. Its not great , but sometimes you dont want young tannic wines which are hard to avoid, but just want an easy drinking all rounder.

Chateau Lapelletrie St Emilion 2005 - Tesco

Lovely purity, balance and freshness, with perfectly integrated acidity. and nice structure but still a soft wine.

Subtle blackcurrant nose. Not a blockbuster. Not complex, but lovely balance. Not a 'wow!' wine, but a good one.

Not sure if I'd pay £13 for it again, but at the same time if you want a wine of these qualities, as a supermarket option it is probably worth it. For this money there are St Estephe 2003 Crus Bourgeois wines which are terrific. I prefer the more 'in your face' style of the Tronquoy Lalande 2003 and Le Boscq 2003 which are available for a similar price from Tesco and the Co-op. But those wines, whilst still classic bordeaux, are a more rustic yet more interesting style of wine. So if you want something pretty and refined, and you have cash to burn, this is your boy.

I am going to give it 8/10.

Chateau Lapelletrie St Emilion 2005 Tesco £12.99