Top Notch Wine....

bonkey

I've just found a shop here in Bern which stocks both my favourite red and favourite white wines, as well as a frightening amount of other good stuff.

Now, without going in to pretension about years, or paying exorbitant rates for vintage bottles, I was wondering what (if any) wines would people rank as their no.1 choice, and roughly what cost are they?

For me, it is :

White - Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc
Red - Chateau Musar

Prices vary a lot, but from what I recall, the CBSB would cost about €40 and the Musar about €25 in Ireland. Expensive, but damn damn fine.

Any other suggestions?

jc

Shinji

I'm a real fan of the Jacobs Creek Aussie wines; they used to be really cheap a few years back and have since become a lot more expensive, but they're worth it.

In general though I'm open to suggestion on wines, I'm no expert and hence I tend to drink whatever someone else recommends. I just bear in mind which ones are awful so I can avoid them in future (anything Bulgarian, for a start).

Oh, and it's kinda wine - god, I love Laurent Perrier champagne

Occidental

bonkey,

If you ever come across it, Oyster Bay, another NZ SB but costs about half the price of Cloudy Bay and tastes much the same. Used to be able to get it in some of the wine warehouses in the UK, but have never managed to find it in Ireland(pestered Oddbins for ages but they still never got it).

If you fancy a light red that you can drink in the summer have a go at Tarrango from Brown Brothers(Australia). Should be able to get it in Tesco's.

bonkey

Havent tried the Oyster Bay - I'll keep an eye out for it.

Clifford Bay (same part of world) is also very comparable at about 1/2 the price of Cloudy Bay. Again Oddbins.

As for the Tarrango - boy do I know it well. Given that I'm not sold on Rose in general, this is a far better solution for me - a light red

Oh - and Oddbins suggestions, while welcome, are not terribly useful, given that I live in Switzerland these days

Oh - another wine worth mentioning is white rioja in general. Superbly good, and highly underrated...which means that its usually very cheap. Spanish wine in Ireland, as a rule, is way underpriced - almost to the point of costing about the same as Spanish wine does on the continent (outside Spain of course).

jc

Mercury_Tilt

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DapperGent

I'm don't know much about the whole thing but I'm a big fan of red Rioja. Nicest one I've had was Coto de Imaz aboout €20-€25 I think.

The cheaper Faustinos and Wolf Blasses are great as well.

Tazz T

Ariston Bay is good NZ sauv blanc.

Santa Rita do a good range of chilean whites and reds all around the €9-10 mark.

Berry's Brothers in Harry St do the best Sauv Blanc I've ever tasted. Can't remember what it's called - just on the left side as you walk in about €14 - they might have it labelled under their own name actually.

Da Bounca

Xanadu , i think it was a Merlot. Not quite sure where from.
****ing delicious. Bought it in O'Briens Fine Wines in Stillorgan.

bucks73

My favourite is Wolfblass Presidents Selection caberbet sauv.

About €15.00 in Tesco.

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Red: beaujolous villages (dont ask bout the ****in spellin)

white: a medium white, i'm not picky,