OT Wine recommendation

Sparkling Red ROCKS!
Especially the Banrock Station Shiraz

Seriously, give it a go. I've been shit faced on it twice now.
Goes down like my missus

 

with an upturned nose and a brambly bite

 

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

;^) Care to comment on the aftertaste?

 

Always saline, sometimes metallic, zinc perhaps? The best vintages have a
peppery quality at the back of the tongue

 

With a Copydex bouquet

 

Absolutely. Make sure it's well chilled first. There was a discussion
about this sometime ago, when Bear mentioned Rockford sparkling Shiraz.
Someone offered to see if they could get any in this country, can't
remember who though.

 

Even the cheap Temperillo in Co-op it quite nice

 

There's a Co-op near me. It's on my route in/out of Cardiff so I've stopped
a couple of times. Their wines are pretty good and unlike the Tesco Metro,
round the corner from me, they have a large amount of booze in the fridge.

Not tried the red fizz yet.

 

It's not as nice as the banrock station one. But it works.

 

I'm waiting for someone to do a special offer so it's less than 8 quid a
bottle. The best I've seen is Tesco at 45.64 for a case of 6.

 

I picked up a bottle in asda for 7 quid something

 

Ah, that's why I have not tried it. Never spend anything like that for
general purpose inebriation. Last night I drank Tesco Oz Red 13%ABV. Very
good value for £2.68

 

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:16:11 +0100, "Linger"

Their white shiraz is nice too.

 

Yep. Just make sure that when someone pours a glass for you, it's the
colour your expecting. White shiraz is bloody awful when you expect red.

 

I bought a few bottles at the good food show at the NEC last year. If
it's on offer again I'll be buying some more. It does indeed rock.

 

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:07:48 +0100, Erik The Bee

Luckily, I can both see reasonably well (like, hey! It's pink in the
bottle!) and read, so it's not a problem...

 

What I meant is you've been drinking red all evening, someone puts a
glass in your hand when you are talking and you take a mouthful without
looking.

 

Both myself and the woman tried it last summer.
It didn't "work" for either of us.

The tase was wrong for the "feel" bit like eating brussel sprout flavour
crisps.

Brain expects something and can't "enjoy" something of such bizarre mix.

Others prolly ain't so fussy though.
:¬)