... Having said that this time I seem to have picked a real minger of a wine!
I picked up a bottle of Tesco Australian White wine the other day whilst shopping for a few bits and pieces. A standard 75cl bottle was £2.99 with a further 20% off at the till on this occasion making it cost a total ... Read review
...picked up a bottle of Tesco Australian White wine the other day whilst shopping for a few bits and pieces. A standard 75cl bottle was £2.99 with a further 20% off at the till on this occasion making it cost a total of about £2.40 – maybe that should have been a warning?! There is cheap wine and then there is CHEAP wine! I have been able to buy many wines at what I consider a good/cheap price and the taste and quality has been very good – not so in ... ...This comes in a plain green bottle with a colourful yet strangely old-fashioned label and the name is pretty basic – just “Tesco Australian White Wine”. Produced in the South Eastern region of Australia this boasts being a “fresh crisp white wine with citrus fruits and herbaceous flavours”. Well, what can I say??! It is a honey yellow/brown colour with a strong aroma of apple and lemon. I poured a glass and took a large sip and – YEUGH! – it’s horrible!! ... more
Oh Wow!! As many of you who know me and my opinions by now you will have realised that I like my alcohol, and wine in particular. Part of my extensive research for the likes of Ciao and its readers involves the arduous testing of many different wines.
It’s not often I am truly disgusted and find something bad to say as many of my choices, though I say it myself, have been very good and pleasurable. Having said that this time I seem to have picked a real minger of a wine!
I picked up a bottle of Tesco Australian White wine the other day whilst shopping for a few bits and pieces. A standard 75cl bottle was £2.99 with a further 20% off at the till on this occasion making it cost a total of about £2.40 – maybe that should have been a warning?! There is cheap wine and then there is CHEAP wine! I have been able to buy many wines at what I consider a good/cheap price and the taste and quality has been very good – not so in this case I am sorry to say.
This comes in a plain green bottle with a colourful yet strangely old-fashioned label and the name is pretty basic – just “Tesco Australian White Wine”. Produced in the South Eastern region of Australia this boasts being a “fresh crisp white wine with citrus fruits and herbaceous flavours”. Well, what can I say??! It is a honey yellow/brown colour with a strong aroma of apple and lemon. I poured a glass and took a large sip and – YEUGH! – it’s horrible!! An overpowering taste of I’m not sure what hit me – maybe this was the “herbaceous” bit – bit it struck me as strong, plastic-tasting and sickly all at the same time. I struggled through the glass full and still have half a bottle of this left – very unusual for me as you will know I can normally polish of a standard bottle of wine in one evening.
Like most white wines this is best serve chilled (if you can face it at all) and is supposedly good for accompanying dishes such as chicken, fish and salad. On the dryness scale (1-9 = driest to sweetest) this is labelled at a number 2 which tastes about right albeit with a hideous sickly back-of –the-throat aftertaste. The alcohol content is 12% volume which is around average for this type and grade of wine so you could become tipsy on it if you can bear to drink enough of this particular one!
For me, personally, to finish off this bottle (can’t bring myself to yet, have gone back on to the Sainsburys Anjou!) you would need a generous addition of maybe soda water or lemonade to dilute it and take the edge of it.
Maybe I had a duff bottle? I don’t know, but I would not recommend this one to anybody!
Advantages: Price, easily found Disadvantages: Grape choice, harsh not smooth
...represents a good low price. Tesco claim this to be one of their “long-running stars” in their Australian range and give it a 2 rating, which is pretty dry, I concur. The wine is fruity with vague flavours of apple and lemon. There is a sharp after taste removing the normal Aussie smoothness I expected. There is no oak taste, so its one that missed the classic Aussie oak treatment. The alcohol content is declared at 12% making it reasonably ... ...Lindeman’s Cawarra Colombard Chardonnay, which Tesco also stock, a bit more money though. Tesco’s White is not one to keep and it needs to be drunk (no not you the wine) within one year of purchase.
If you bring me a bottle I would drink this wine, well before you go home anyway, as I would not hold it in my cellar. I guess it would be good outdoors in the summer when you can mix it to create white wine spritzers. It tastes better mixed ...
cjsingleton 18.02.2003 (19.02.2003)
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Advantages: Value the english way Disadvantages: More expensive than some
...as the consumption went on. Tesco had lower cost elsewhere.... consider this when you buy alcohol at this store (check out my review for Tesco red). It still packs quite a punch.
Tomorrow I will try some more from the bottle again check out this site for updates. The wine mantained its freshness for the second day, the screw top seems to work. It aided the digestion of my evening meal. I will finish the last glass this evening. UNITS OF ALCOHOL: ...
JeffreyB 17.05.2005 (18.05.2005)
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***THE PRODUCT***
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Style: A smooth, medium - bodied red wine with ripe, vibrant fruit flavours. Source: From inland regions of Southern Eastern Australia, Store: in a cool dark place. Best within one year, Once open drink within 2 days.
There is also advice on daily amounts for intake of average adults, male 3 - 4 units, women 2 - 3 units. Each 125 ml contains 1.6 units of alcohol glass contains.
***THE TASTE EXPERIENCE***
I served straight ...
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~ BLIND TASTING ~
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