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week beginning 01/10/2007
Why not print this page off as your shopping list?the Times - Jane MacQuitty
2005 Menetou-Salon, Le Clos du Pressoir. Corney & Barrow £10.25leafy, floral sauvignon blanc with lots of ripe, racy fruit
1998 Clos des Amandiers Pomerol, Corney & Barrow, £17.95terrific, gamey, truffley fruit is definitely ready for drinking now
2007 Spy Mountain Riesling, Marlborough, Tesco, £6.49 until Oct 9gorgeous fat, ripe, spicy, classic, kerosene-scented riesling
2005 Yering Station MVR, Tesco, £7.49 until October 9delectable, ripe, spicy, pineappley-redolent winter white
2006 Gran Tempranillo, Cariñena, Spain, Sainsbury’s, £2.99seductively spiced; blessed with lots of rich, juicy, plummy fruit
2005 Château Peyriac, Minervois, France, Sainsbury’s, £3.99lovely, fat, inky, spicy, black fruits-charged, syrah-dominant minervois
the Sunday Times - Joanna Simon
Kasteel Cru, £1.49 (Waitrose).Crisp, appley, citrusy lager from Alsace
Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer, £1.50 (widely available).Toasty, wheaty, smooth.
Brakspear Triple, £1.99 (Sainsbury's, Asda).Powerful, fruity, malty beer.
the Independent - Anthony Rose
2007 Argento Rosé. £3.99 Tesco Autumn FestivalArgento has cherry-picked this crisp, dry rosé
2006 Stamford Brook Viognier. £5.99, Sainsbury'sfresh, floral aromas and peachy opulence
2003 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano La Ciarliana. £11.99, Majesticsmooth, cherry-raspberry, herby red; great for roasts
the Observer - Tim Atkin
2005 Canaletto Montepulciano d'Abruzzo (£4.99, Sainsbury's)juicy, plum- and cherry-like
Sainsbury's Taste the Difference 12-year-old Oloroso (£6.99)a nutty, dry Sherry at a giveaway price
Charles Heidsieck Champagne Brut Réserve NV (£22.99 Majestic)one of the best non-vintage Champagnes
2004 Seghesio Old Vine Zinfandel, Sonoma (£24.95, Liberty)broad, brambly red with real guts
2005 Bald Hills Pinot Noir (£23.99, Ellis; nzhouseofwine.co.uk)silky, textured, palate-caressing
the Telegraph - Jonathan Ray
2006 Clos de Los Siete Argentina (£10.99; Wait, Odd, Maj, Har)ideal match for a big, fat, juicy steak
2005 Green Point Brut Australia (£12.99; Averys)crisp, ripe and rounded - an excellent aperitif
2002 Moulin de La Lagune (2 @ 99 Majestic)Classy stuff indeed, with a nice bit of bottle age
2005 Rully Premier Cru, Joseph Drouhin (£9.99; Waitrose)soft, buttery, toasty example, fermented in steel and aged in oak
the Guardian - Victoria Moore
Bull's Blood, about as robust a wine as you're likely to find, does go rather well with goulash. And peasanty (or at least not super-posh) wine is about the best thing you can drink with most simple, rustic one-pot dishes, which is just as well, because they're usually budget meals. Even with casseroles and stews, though, you could do worse than look for a wine from the same region (or at least country) as the dish, so as to find some sort of taste correlation. So, a Spanish dish with onions fried to caramelised softness and scented with sweet, smoky paprika will meld with a soft, hay and ripe strawberries tempranillo. A heavy Gascon meat and beans stomach-stretcher can be met by an equally sturdy cahors, or lightened with a spry marcillac. Italian garlic sausages with lentils like a slightly medicinal sangiovese. And so on. But don't ignore New World reds - their firm, no-nonsense character is especially good with strident tomato- and pepper-flavoured stews. Including Hungarian goulash.
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