What a time to be alive! Saint Veran at £8 a bottle – and if you buy any 6 wines in Tesco, it comes down to £6 a bottle! BUY! This is great wine for the money and coupled with the Trivento Chardonnay deal (Tesco), Santa Julia Chardonnay deal (Waitrose) and a great deal on…
Tag: Chardonnay
Santa Julia Chardonnay
Trivento may be the global market leader in Argentinian wines but they have real competition in the £8-£10 bracket, especially from this Chardonnay. Santa Julia is from the Zuccardi brand. We first tasted Zuccardi in Argentina last year and immediately loved their Chardonnays. Waitrose have a ‘buy any 3 bottles get 25% off’ deal and…
Trivento Chardonnay
Trivento is the global market leader in Argentinian wines. We visited the winery in November 2016 and tried their entire range (pictures below). The UK offerings are mostly retailed in Tesco and no longer include the Parra Alta Chardonnay (£5.50) price-point, which is a shame as this was excellent value. Tesco still sell the Parra…
La Umbra Chardonnay
I was contacted by the police this week to inform me that a gang of Romanian criminals in West London had insured 6 cars using my details. They had even stolen my card details to pay for one of the policies. One of the cars had triggered a speed camera – a car which I…
Macon-Villages, Cave de Lugny, Co-Op
Had to grab a bottle in a hurry, to go with our planned chip supper; Chablis seems a bit excessive for battered haddock – although I like the juxtaposition… An alternative to the more expensive white burgundies, which goes well with fish – even the battered type – is this good chardonnay from Co-Op. They…
Macon Villages Blanc, Tesco
It’s white, from burgundy and 100% chardonnay. All good? Not quite… It’s £6.75 a bottle, however with the Tesco ‘buy 6, get 25% off’ deal it comes down to £5.06 a bottle. It even tasted pretty good. So what’s not to like? I woke up at 4am with a pounding headache – my wife 3…
Pouilly Fuisse, Marc Dudet, Waitrose
Again not cheap and not everyday wine. Pouilly Fuisse is one of my favourites along with pretty much all white burgundies. At this price I have expectations and naturally hope the wine will be markedly better than the £8 wines I go for. It often isn’t and I have had so many disappointingly ‘meh’ Chablis…
Bellingham Chardonnay
In my quest for good, well priced, widely available wines I came across this Chardonnay which drew my eye… Most of us would probably associate South Africa primarily with Chenin Blanc. Tesco sells this Stellenbosch Chardonnay for £11; not cheap and at that price I have expectations… Tasting notes: Has a really good nose which…
Waitrose Brazil Chardonnay
Waitrose sell a brace of Brazillian wines: one red, one white (the red is reduced to clear – which makes me wary of it). This is the first Brazillian wine I’ve tasted, in fact the first I’ve ever seen. I shouldn’t be surprised that a country as vast as Brazil produces wine; I’ve been to…
Louis Jadot Macon Villages
Tasting Notes: Big burgundy producer, the kind of bottle to take to a party/prospective in-law as it’s recognisably good wine. And probably expensive. This can cost up to 50% more in the wrong shop… I liked it, very much, but I’m afraid I can now do slightly better for the money, from M&S, from Argentina…….
Famille Castel Grande Reserve Chardonnay
Tasting Notes: This was a bit of a steal. I’ve seen this elsewhere for £16 and was worried that there was a reason why it wasn’t selling and was being offered so cheaply. However it was good chardonnay, and offered a good alternative to white burgundies which I often find overpriced, particularly Macon Blancs &…
Hardy’s Varietal Range Chardonnay
Tasting Notes: Actively unpleasant. Suitable for inducing a migraine. Picked up from a large wall of identical bottles in a rush. Boasts of having won lots of medals. Had an awful aftertaste and for £6 I could have done sooo much better. Buy literally any of the other wines reviewed here (except Cima Rosa Chardonnay…
A Time for Wine 