The marques de riscal is awful at the price imho. Tombola wine.
What’s tombola wine?
If you’re going up to 40 buy a chateauneuf du pape (sp?) and he’ll know you got him a decent (priced) wine. Against that, I don’t know when you got married but buying wine for a former alcoholic (is there such a thing?) seems a bit off to me, surely there’s something else you could get him.
Southern Rhone is the best value to quality in French wine imo. Vintages are consistently good as the climate is consistent. A regular Cotes du Rhone from a recent vintage is a great value, but for the 20-25 Euro range you should get a nice Gigondas or Vasqueyras or Rasteau (individual villages in the southern Rhone). Would second the Chateauneuf recommendation although you need to pay attention to vintage as many vintages are tannic and meant for laying down for years. The 2016 is an exceptional vintage and drinking well, 2018 not quite as good but also drinking well.
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I think a tombola is a word posh brits like flatty use for a raffle, perhaps at a parish hall fundraiser.
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Informative rating.
School fundraisers. They had loads of them, and St Catherine’s on the didsbury Burnage border is far from posh.
I’m sure the vicar was delighted
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I went with this one earlier. Hopefully he asks his wife or son to look up the price so that he knows I didn’t spend a tenner on it.
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And when he hits rock bottom and loses everything to the drink at least you’ll know you played your small part in it.
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Apologies for the photos. Recommend anything??
What’s the deal here? You buy a bottle they send you in 5 years time?
Give or take, yes.
2020 is supposed to be good and an early drinking wine. The prices look ridiculous (low), how does it work?
You buy en primeur and when it’s bottled they email you and see whether you want it delivered or stored by them for a fee. It’s non profit member owned.
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From the limited amount I’ve read 2020 is a good vintage but not a great one worthy of laying down. Those mixed cases are great value, 10 quid a bottle for very decent wines that can be drunk young. If you got a few cases of the Rhone essentials and Southern Crus you’re getting a nice mix of northern and southern Rhones, including CDP, and all of them could be drank soon after you get them next year.
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Most of the southern ones are quite strong, but I’ll get a mixed case on your recommendation. Thanks.
When it says drink from 2023-2034, is it better left until later in that period?