Red wine

Judging by your criteria: Buckfast.

tomwaterford wrote: »

Ribena and add vodka...it'll at least look the same



Wine is rank.....I cannot fathom why people pay to drink it

There's something slightly incongruous about these two sentences!

Get a bunch of the 1/4 bottles and have a tasting.

Personally, I like Shiraz and cabernet sauvignon.... Preferably from Australia

Just hook it to my veins.

Ladyinthedark wrote: »

Hi I'm hoping to start drinking red wine

What a wonder ambition!

We're fully behind you OP in all your future endeavors!

Yup. Red wines that are high in sugar are usually experienced as "fruity" or "rich" or some such term, rather than as "sweet". That's because red wines tend to have other characteristics that eclipse a sugar taste.

If, when the OP says that she has a sweet tooth, she means she prefers drinks that taste sugary, then there are a lot more whites than reds that will appeal to her. There are explicitly sweet-tasting reds, but not a lot of them, and they'll nearly always be labelled "sweet", since they will have been produced specifically to have this fairly unusual characteristic.

What makes red wine red is the grape skins, and they also impart tannin, which tends to eclipse a sugar taste. So if you want to produce a sweeter red, one way to do this is to remove the grapeskins at an earlier stage in the process, resulting in a paler wine. And certain grape varieties are better at producing sweet red wine; particularly shiraz and grenache.

So, OP, head down to your off-licence and browse among the reds, looking for shiraz and grenache wines that are pale in colour. They may appeal to you.

As previously mentioned pint noir is generally an easily accessible starting point. Look for something lower in alcohol, 10-12% rather than 12-14.5% as less alcohol generally means more sugar and a sweeter less dry wine. A wine low in tannins is good to avoid that drying grape skin effect. Try an eastern European shop for romanian/moldovan wine as they tend to be very easy drinking and clearly marked as being sweet or dry.

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Just one moment please..

Aongus Von Bismarck to reception please, Aongus Von Bismarck.

I like the way you're thinking but the OP specified a price range of €10-20. AvB wouldn't even make his famous coq-au-vin with a €20 wine!

I applaud your wish to start drinking red wine.

It's stopping drinking red wine that's the problem.

Watch Sideways, before deciding.

Ted111 wrote: »

Popular drink spain and south america is mixture of coke and red wine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimotxo


This could be a gate way beverage for you before you embark on a more serious career in wine drinking.

It's disgusting, have you ever tried it?

Winterlong wrote: »

Wine is not like Sherry OP....so dont be thinking about sweetness.
A good starter would be a nice merlot. Get a bottle for around 12-14 in the supermarket and see if you like it. Try the McGuigan Merlot perhaps?

If you want to go mad all together then download an app called Vivino. It will give you ratings and average price for most wine bottle labels so you can read what people have said.

I've yet to taste a good Australian, stick with spainish, Italian , French , chille