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Topic Started: Aug 20 2011, 01:46 PM (1,857 Views)
rumbaba
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I don't normally buy rosé wine, there is a lot of it about but most of it seems to be rubbishy 'blush' wine, designed for people who don't really like wine. A marketing exercise like 'Guinness on a stick' (ice cold so you can't actually taste it) and cider with ice cubes in (who the hell thought of that one?). However, we are doing a Waitrose recipe today, a pasta dish with prawns and chilli and the recommended wine is Laurent Miquel Vendanges Nocturnes Cinsault Syrah at £8.29 a pop. A 'delicate, dry rosé' apparently. I hope it is worth it.
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The rosé was good, excellent match with the prawn/chilli pasta but I am not sure it as worth in excess of 8 quid.
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Best go for sick squid next time - and you’ll still have £2 in change Rumbaba and The Emoticons BOOM - BOOM!
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<laugh>

I read something recently about what people are prepared to pay for wine and how, because of the tax, etc, that if you spent say £7 or £8, rather than £5 for a bottle you got a much better deal due to the quality. It suggested that there is resistance to spending that much in a supermarket but, in a restaurant, people will pay £17 for a bottle of rubbish.
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I am blessed with having the Queen and the Prince of Wales's Wine Merchants on my doorstep, and it is always a pleasure to enter this paradise of a wine merchants that has kept its wonderful traditional decor since it was opened by the Widow Bourne in 1698, together with excellent service whilst keeping it's wine prices in touch with the modern world.

I would like to recommend 2 rather delicious but different Rose wines that I have enjoyed recently.....the first with an italian meze, the second with a grilled salmon and fennel dish.

1) Berrys' Rose, Jean-Luc Terrior & C.Collovray (Stelvin) - £6.95
A blend of Syrah, Merlot and Cinsault, with a relatively deep strawberry colour and attractive hedgerow aromas. The red-fruit notes on the palate are pleasingly poised between the structured and the fruity, between white wine elegance and red wine weight. But as with all the best rosés, this is far more than an amalgam of red and white; it has its own personality and is as equally well-suited to the pre-prandial terrace as to the table itself.

Jean Luc Terrier is one of the most gifted winemakers in France. He has made his name at the acclaimed Domaine des Deux Roches in Burgundy and is now forging a similar reputation for his range of Languedoc wines, farmed high in the foothills of Limoux around the scenic village of Antugnac.
(Simon Field MW - BBR Buyer)

2) 2009 Rosado, CVNE, Rioja - £9.15
This 100% Tempranillo has been made by the saignée method. The rather fulsome colour belies a wine of great freshness and subtlety, its ripe strawberry fruit tempered by firm natural acidity and a surprising freshness at the back of the palate.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)

Edited by Mobson, Aug 28 2011, 10:25 AM.
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