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100 Some Wines 20192019 100 SOME WINES 20192019 from the Association of Wine Educators Our 100 AWESOME WINES White under £10 5. Carpinus Hárslevelu Dry White 2017, Hungary: Lidl £7.99 A superb price for 1. Verdicchio Classico Superiore, Villa this rare grape. Deliciously citric aromas Bucci 2016, Marche, Italy: The Wine with pear and grapefruit notes, sweet Society (half bottle) £6.75 Villa Bucci sour flavours in a rich sappy minerally wines always have elegance, purity and style made by the Bai family – it makes a great depth of fruit. Verdicchio in the really unusual aperitif. (Rose Murray- right hands is one of Italy’s very best Brown MW) 100 great value wines as recommended by wine professionals white grape varieties. It’s softly golden in colour, dry, fresh and zingy, with white 6. Navajas Blanco Crianza, Rioja 2015, If you have ever wished you knew a little more about wine but haven’t known where peach fruit flavours. Fantastic with Spain: The Wine Society £8.50 Yes, a to start, checking out the Association of Wine Educators would be a very good place. seafood or on its own. A delicious white Rioja, and this one is as delicious bargain and organic too, it’s only as red Rioja. Huge flavour for the money, Our members are qualified to at least Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) available in the UK in half bottles, so buy you’ll need to like oak; it is nutty and Diploma, several are Masters of Wine, and all have been assessed for their teaching two! (Paul Howard) toasty, with lashings of vanilla. Perfect and presenting skills. We are located all over the country, and overseas, running with creamy chicken. (Rob Price) courses, classes and tastings and you can find your most local wine educator very 2. Winemakers Selection Sauvignon easily by searching the AWE website: www.wineeducators.com Blanc 2017, Awatere, New Zealand: 7. Stellenrust Chenin Blanc 2018, South Lidl £6.99 Marlborough Sauvignon Africa: Sainsbury’s £8.50 Chenin Blanc This popular brochure, now in its fifth year, is a list of wines which our members Blanc may not be the most original is South Africa’s classic variety grown recommend to you as being some of the best value wines they have found on the choice to feature here but there is a here on old vines in the famous region of market, whether under a tenner or £25. These are wines they have enjoyed reason that it has become so popular – Stellenbosch. It is a wine of grapefruit and presenting at tastings or drinking themselves and which they believe to hit that all some of it is really good. From lime flavours working beautifully alongside important quality versus price sweet spot. Marlborough’s top sub-region, the a more tropical fruit character. One of its Awatere Valley, this is highly expressive attributes is its versatility to match with We hope that the brochure will encourage you to try different styles of wines, Sauvignon yet with above average verve many different dishes such as chicken possibly to spend a little more than you normally might, in the knowledge that a wine and energy. (Richard Bampfield MW) fricassée or pork and apple, salads and professional, who tastes hundreds of wines a year, thinks it’s pretty smart. Chinese food. Another is its propensity to 3. Grillo 2017, Sicily, Italy: Marks & slip down easily on its own. An absolute The brochure is also available online so please share it with your wine-loving friends: Spencer €11 ROI/£7 Very enjoyable steal at this price. (Laura Clay) http://wineeducators.com/100-awesome-wines/ wine at a fantastic price. Textured Laura Clay honeysuckle styling makes this 8. Picpoul de Pinet Domaine Saint-Peyre approachable to either drink on its own 2017 Côteaux du Languedoc, France: AWE Chairman or to pair it up with rich flavours such as Staintons Wines £8.95 Fresh summer a goat’s cheese or smoked bacon. fruits with floral aromas and herbaceous (Kevin Ecock) undertones. Alert, crisp and crunchy white wine that goes perfectly with 4. Zalze Bush Vine Chenin Blanc modern cuisine. (Paul Quinn) 2017/2018, Coastal Region, South Africa: Morrisons £7.25 An excellent 9. Waitrose Foundation Chenin Blanc Charles Metcalfe “The Association of Wine Educators are an amazing example of easy-drinking New World Cederberg 2018, South Africa: bunch. They are dedicated to helping everyone find Chenin Blanc. Dry, unoaked with ripe Waitrose £8.99 A crisp, dry white to out more about wine, and get more enjoyment from tropical fruit and accents of lime zest, celebrate giving money to an extremely it. AWE members really know their winey stuff, and lemon custard and mango supported worthy cause, the Waitrose Foundation. Author, educator and are very skilled at spreading the winey word. In fact, with racy acidity. Medium-bodied, This provides grants to agricultural refreshing wine, great as an aperitif or communities for education, health care Honorary President of they are AWEsome. By the way, this is a really handy with seafood or poultry. (Patricia and many other positive projects, funded the AWE booklet of wines.” Stefanowicz MW) by some of what you pay for the wine. 2 www.wineeducators.com www.wineeducators.com 3 The grapes come from vines over 1000 smooth. Marvellous with manchego aromas of cherries, pepper, mocha and metres in altitude, and the wine is tight, cheese. (Rob Price) rosemary. The palate is medium bodied herby and intense. It’s very young, and and very soft with a nice touch of fine 14. Côtes-du-Rhône Rive Droite, Rive I’d keep it until summer 2019. (Charles grain tannins, lively red fruit and Gauche 2017, France: The Wine Metcalfe) refreshing acidity giving balance and Society £7.75 A perfect wine all year tension. (Quentin Sadler) 10. Dourthe La Grande Cuvée Sauvignon round. A Grenache and Syrah blend that Blanc 2016/7, Bordeaux, France: is so juicy and full of fruit. The ultimate 19. Taste the Difference Zweigelt 2017, Waitrose £9.49 Fresh, crisp and dry from good value quaffable wine. Chill it in the Huber, Austria: Sainsbury’s £8 Hats off the pioneers of modern Bordeaux wine- summer with your barbeque or it’s to Sainsbury’s for continuing to making. Herby, grassy with ripe fruit and equally good as a robust match for a champion off-piste wines through their hints of grapefruit. Aromatic, with winter casserole. (Carolyn Bosworth- excellent Taste the Difference range. This satisfying depth of flavour. (Richard Esling) Davies) Zweigelt is a typical example with its bright, refreshing slightly savoury ripe 11. Château de Vallagon Touraine 15. Château Canada, Bordeaux Supérieur cherry fruit. It takes chilling so well and Sauvignon Blanc 2015, France: Taurus 2016, France: The Wine Society £7.95 drinks perfectly with anything from a Wines £9.99 A typical grassy, apple-y As this soft, fruity blend of 70% Merlot picnic to a barbecue, making it an ideal and herbal-toned Sauvignon Blanc with a and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon summer red. (Pippa Hayward) subtle underlying mineral flavour. This is a demonstrates, good red Bordeaux genuine rival to many a Sancerre and at doesn’t have to be expensive. A glass or 20. Château d’Emeringes Beaujolais- a very good price. (David Timmons) two will enhance the simplest of meals. Villages 2017 Vieilles Vignes, France: 12. Mâcon-Villages Les Pierres Blanches, Enjoy it with richly sauced pasta, a plain The Wine Society £8.50 Beaujolais is 23. Malbec Don David, Blend of Terroirs, Cave de Lugny, Bourgogne 2016, grilled chop or steak, good British back in fashion. If you don’t know where Argentina: Co-op £9 Made by one of France: Majestic £9.99 Fresh, fruity cheeses or your comfort food of the to start, start here. This is light yet the largest producers in Argentina, style, with a very gentle buttery character moment. (Sandy Leckie) intense and beautifully balanced with meaning that they can call on grapes (but there’s no new oak) so a wine which plenty of fruit and lovely minerality, doing from all the major wine regions. This 16. Exquisite Collection Marqués de everything you hope that Beaujolais- Malbec has good depth and structure is a great match for fish or pork dishes Carrión Rioja Reserva 2014, Spain: Aldi with light sauces. (Ian Symonds) Villages will do, but better, in fact better but also retains the freshness and sheer £7.99 Rioja is often a good price for a than many of the crus! (Nina Cerullo) drinkability that are the hallmarks of all Red under £10 prestige wine but rarely is it as much of a good wine. One of the best-selling bargain as this one. For well under a 21. Cabaret Frank No 2, Old Vine Cabernet 13. Marqués De Carano Gran Reservado, brands in Argentina itself. (Richard tenner you’re rewarded with an Franc 2016, Lodi, California, USA: 2014, Spain: Tesco £5.50 It may be Bampfield MW) impressive, rounded wine, silky-smooth Field & Fawcett £8.60 A red wine for cheap, but it just slips down beautifully. with juicy cherry and vanilla flavours those times when you don’t want to take 24. Frappato di Sicilia, Nicosia 2017, Italy: Like a Rioja, but from the Cariñena perfectly padded with mouth-filling life too seriously. Medium-bodied and The Wine Society £9.95 I develop a real region that offers wines at fabulous tannins. (Laura Clay) with aromas of blackberries, black weakness for chilled, light-bodied, value. Lovely red fruits and hints of cherries and hints of plum. With bags of fragrant reds over the summer months – spice, it’s soft, satisfying and silky 17.
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