Advantages: Luxurious taste, Good for special occassion, nice classy label Disadvantages: Expensive !
Sometimes I crave a rich and hugely flavoured red wine to wash me away on a luxurious wave of pleasure. One of my favourite ways of doing this is to treat my expectant palate to a bottle of Penfold?s Kalimna Bin 28 Shiraz from South Australia. Penfold?s are a very well known Australian wine maker who produce a full range of wines from the moderately priced (the Rawson?s Retreat range at around £4-5 for example) to the monstrously expensive which is represented by The Grange wine which is a famous Shiraz that retails for well over £100. Fortunately the Bin 28 is priced considerably lower at the £10-11 mark. This makes it in my opinion a special occasion or treat wine rather than a casual everyday glugger. It also tends to be widely available and I have seen it in Tesco, the Co-op and Somerfield.
The wine that I drank was from the very ...
Advantages: Lovely rich flavour, widely available Disadvantages: Quite pricey, be careful what you drink it with!
Well whaddya know? You wait ages for a wine opinion and then along come a few together! I was going to review another food product before doing one on wine again but I?m drinking this now so, sod it, may as well write about it??
I?ve recently been a bit more adventurous (as far as sampling wine goes anyway!) and delved deeper into the murky world of red wines against my usual preference of a nice crisp, medium white. I don?t know what has brought this on as formally most red wines did nothing whatsoever for me but lately I?ve been finding them appealing and actually LIKING most of my choices.
One of my latest juicy little red numbers is Blossom Hill CabernetShiraz. Blossom Hill produce many different Californian wines ? red, white and rose ? and I have tried a large variety of their whites and rose but never a red. So there I ...
Advantages: Goes well with Red Meat Dishes. Easily Found. Disadvantages: Not Many
Oxford Landing CabernetShiraz is produced by the Yalumba Wine Company at their vineyards alongside the famous Murray River. Here the soil is rich,the skies blue and the air clean and unpolluted whilst Yalumba is undeniably in the forefront of premium wine production in Australia. It is Australia's oldest family-owned winery having been established back in 1849 by Samuel Smith from Dorset,England. It has huge plantings of Shiraz, and Chardonnay,Cabernet, and Sauvignon Blanc.Today this group embraces some of the best known of Australian wines on the international market.
The Shiraz from Oxford Landing is widely available and I believe most of the larger supermarkets stock it as well as major off licences. This wine is vibrant,deep,crimson in colour whilst red berry and mint aromas on the nose are complexed with toasted vanilla and oak ...
