Lidl have two grand Tuscan wines for Christmas. A Brunello del Montelcino for 19.99 and a Vino Nobile de Montepulciano for 14.99. Normally you’d expect to pay twice that for a Brunello and 25€ for a Montepulciano.
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I got a decent wine there for the dinner. The wine man said they take the grapes in and wrap them up and let them dry out a bit before making the wine (TNH etc etc) so it’s quite dark and strong. It’s 16%. Cracking stuff.
Had a lovely vinho verde there with the traditional turkey and ham dinner. Very light and citrusy.
Never disappoints
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I’m not a wine person at all but I’ve been sipping away on this for the evening and it’s absolutely lovely stuff. Goes down very easy
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Hard bate Rioja. Go Del Duero and younger and it’s nicer.
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Any lad who’s ever been on holiday in Spain will like it.
It’s a staple of mine Faustino 1. Used to be unbelayvabel value til fcuking decanter magazine voted it wine of the year and it pretty much doubled overnight.
Needs to be 10 years old at least before drinking I think.
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I had a 2015 muga today, but still think it’s too young. I was referring specifically to Faustino 1 in any case.
Mugs still good, but I think will be better in a few years (I’ve a few cases laid down)
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I’ve read the last 400 pages of this thread this morning and am not much closer to finding a consensus recommendation or more importantly a recommendation from someone who looks like they know what they’re talking about, for a mid priced red wine. I’ve a short list written down of Luna Argenta for €18.95 from O’Brien’s, also Ascheri Langhe Nebbiolo San Giacomo for €23.95 from O’Brien’s and marques de riscal for €20 from Tesco. I’d say the recommendations all came from respected posters @Spidey and @Fagan_ODowd between them. Any alternative suggestions anyone? I’ve come round to the conclusion that I seem to like French wines best personally, but anyway this is for someone else and I might buy a second one for myself.
There’s a fella did a nice unexpected turn for me and I want to get him a decent red wine as a thank you. I don’t mind spending anything up to €30-40 on a nice bottle. He wouldn’t be an expert or anything but drinks a bit of red wine. He was previously an alcoholic who was tee total for 20yrs + but fell off the wagon at my wedding. Not sure what that says about my wedding that he so badly needed a drink but he said it was because he was enjoying himself so much and there was so much drink flowing that he took some of the wine at the table. He’s drinking fairly moderately since thank god and it hasn’t gotten out of hand yet.
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This is lovely
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@Smark, at that price point I’d be going for one of my favorite Italians, a Brunello di Montalcino.
Good example of it here in O’Briens.
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Your man could swill it and never know I paid good money for it is the problem but anyway thanks for the suggestions chaps.
leave the receipt in the bag
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He sounds like he might rather a case of the cheap stuff.
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Faustino 1.
Can’t really go wrong.
Would you ever think of drinking any other wine?
I try to, but I thought @Smark was looking for a single recommendation in around that price point, and Faustino 1 would be mine. I actually prefer it to muga.