Red Wine Recomendations

[mccfluff]

hi, buying a pressie for a colleague, want to get a nice bottle of red, i have available in the near vicinity, M&S, sains, asda, lidl, morrsions & aldi

got about £25 might stretch to £30 - have been musing on these three, but that's only because i havent got as far as the others yet - so any recomendations?

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/red-wine/amarone-classico-torre-mastio-75cl

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/red-wine/barolo-fontanafredda-75cl

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/red-wine/perrin---fils-chateauneuf-du-pape-75cl

[retrocop]

rocky
Never seen or had that Faustino. Had the V11 and the Reserv but never seen that one. Supermarket?

[rockyracoon]

Never seen it in a supermarket Retrocop, we get ours (not very often at that price) in a local offy.

[retrocop]

rocky
Lucky you. Sante. :-)

[mccfluff]

its to drink whenever he likes... he will be £50 and i have £35 now, possible a few more pennies week to come

i'd rather just buy the one bottle, i have several other gifts for him and its me that will end up bloody carrying it :-)

i was looking for wines from 1965 but i think they are out of my price bracket

[jomifl]

I went to a dinner party a while back, I took a €15 bottle of Pomerol, another guy took bottle of 20 year old wine(forgot the label) for which he had paid € 80. My bottle was empty in 10 mins, his didn't get finished. The moral? The older a wine is the more chance that hasn't been looked after properly or it is a fake.

[retrocop]

jomifl
100% agree with that.My Father in Law was a GP and a few years back one of his affluent patients gave him a bottle of wine at the run up to Christmas.
The patient had his own extensive wine cellar and collected wine. He had bought a case of Red for nigh on £1000 at auction. I forget the label.
It was docs turn to visit us for Xmas and we awaited the tasting of the bottle after breathing a while. It was foul. I am suprised the donor didn't give doc another bottle each year just to get rid of it once he had tasted one for himself. Thank God for Sainsbury's plonk as a good stand by.

[mccfluff]

http://www.marksandspencer.com/nuits-saint-georges-single-bottle/p/p21180229

went for this in the end