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Pinot Noir is a light red best suited to lunch time drinking (ie a chicken salad on a sat afternoon etc). For a heavy red, try a Madiran. Full bodied, usually 13.5/14% and only suited to being drunk with food. Tends to be very dry otherwise.
Bordeaux varies. Some are full bodied and again only suitable for drinking while eating, whilst others are fine for drinking without food.
Merlot tends to be medium bodied with pepper like after tones (obv this varies between brands). Can be sipped without food.
This thing about 5/10 quid bottles isn't true. Wine value is largely down to the number of bottles produced then secondly quality. A bottle that says 12% alcohol is 12% regardless of price.
The quality difference between 5-10 range isn't large, and sometimes you'll favour the 5 quid over the 10 quid. Such is the way with wine.
To get a decent sample of cheap to good you'd need to compare say a 5 quid special from the supermarket (a jacobs creek or something equally vile) with a 20-30 bottle form a wine merchant. This is when you'll start to realize just how much individual flavor a good wine has, whilst your cheap bottle has basically no depth whatsoever.
A good way to get a decent wine is to look out for wines that have won medals. That'll have a bronze/silver/gold label on them. Here in France they always have the medal winners separated from the rest. You'll basically never go wrong if you only buy medal winners...
90% of the bottled wine I buy is medal winners. These range from 5-15 euros normally. I tend not to venture over 10 a bottle usually. As I'm in France though, my 10 euro bottles will sell for double if not more in the UK. |
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