Red Wine > Shiraz Red Wine

Huge and opulent Australian Shiraz

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 ...
...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 2002 vintage but I can confirm that while visiting a wine tasting event that the 2003 is pretty damn fine ...

zallin 20.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz

Banro, Mataro, Ocado??? what's this all about

Advantages: Price match error ? get in quick
Disadvantages: You could get very drunk

Banrock Station Shiraz Mataro - South Eastern Australia Bottle: 2009 75cl 13.5% This Australian Red is currently available from Tesco £34.14 per case of 6 Equivalent to £5.69 per bottle I found it from Ocado for 12 Banrock Station Shiraz/Mataro, SE Australia £35.91 advertised as a price match. I think they have mixed up 6 bottles v 12 bottles. Anyway I bought a case as I can’t resist a bargain around 50% off Tesco’s price and one of my favourite ...
...and white pepper” Produced by Banrock Stations Wines, Homes Road, Kingston, Murray. His wine is also “Help the Earth” so a contribution goes to save the planet in supporting environmental projects around the world, admirable and another reason to justify me buying it. What’s it like? Full of fruit, good flavour balance and that Aussie smooth softness, which is so delicious, then the spice and pepper, this is delicious. Well I don’t know how long ...

cjsingleton 13.11.2009 · Read full review
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great red...says it all about Casillero del Diablo

Advantages: yum..yum..yum smooth, not heavy red wine to tickle those taste buds
Disadvantages: can be pricey

Now..I'm not one for fine words and all that nonsey wine talk so I'll tell you straight. I tried this red wine a few years ago, as I wanted a change to my usual white wine and being the winter wanted something to warm me on the chilly evenings. I wondered into my local wine shop and was recommended by the helpful assistant to try this one. I've be buying it from then on. Its not too heavy as I have found some red wines can give me a headache after ...
...damn drinkable!! For those of you who are not red wine fans but fancy dipping your toe in..give this one a try, you won't regret it! I have taken abottle of this to many friends houses and they have like it so they now buy it and the word is still spreading. So go on, treat yourself and curl up and enjoy!! ...

lola1974 12.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Casillero del Diablo Cabernet Sauvignon

The perfect red?

Advantages: Excellent quality, great price
Disadvantages: can't think of any

...recommend that everyone who loves wine should try a bottle. I really do not know how they do it, but tesco must have a very good wine buyer. They seem to be able to provide us with good quality wine for a very keen price. And long may it continue!!! ...

giksy21 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Tesco Chilean Merlot

I wouldn't Bin this Shiraz

Advantages: Inexpensive but a decent wine
Disadvantages: None

LINDEMANS BIN 50 SHIRAZ 2007 Lindemans is one of South Eastern Australia's oldest and largest winemakers. For a couple of decades now it has been just about my favorite budget brand in the world. For as cheaply and readily available its basic products are, their wines are remarkably consistent. The base price of their standard line of wines is around £7, but they are usually on offer at one of the supermarkets for around £4. That's what ...
...produce wines in mass quantities, Lindemans wines are probably as much a work of science as they are of art. The wine making process is fairly standardized and there is a lot of effort made to do things track the temperature of the vineyards where the grapes are growing in order to achieve a consistently good yield of wine. The wines are blended to be drinkable upon release rather than to benefit from further aging. This doesn't sound like the type ...

oldchem 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lindemans Shiraz