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You have cut off the price at the bottom of the picture! It looks like a double figure and so I would pass on buying it too. I like my reds cheap and fruity.I found these bottles of red from Bierzo in our local liquor store today. I actually laughed out loud when I saw the logo. Wondering who might be inclined to make *THAT* their new Camino tattoo.
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hard to buy an imported Spanish Red for single digits I would have thoughtYou have cut off the price at the bottom of the picture! It looks like a double figure and so I would pass on buying it too. I like my reds cheap and fruity.
I get them here occasionally, interspersed with my Ozzie Shiraz'shard to buy an imported Spanish Red for single digits I would have thought
As always the small print reveals all: 24.75+20c (deposit)=24.95.You have cut off the price at the bottom of the picture! It looks like a double figure and so I would pass on buying it too. I like my reds cheap and fruity.
Lovely information! Thank you!This wine was No #34 on the Wine spectator's list (worldwide list) of 2019 and retailed in Canada for $25. The average price of the first 33 on this list was (wait for it) $99. Seems to me worth a try at least...But I don't think it is available in Australia, though it piqued my curiosity hence the blurb above.
Anyone interested, here is the link with more info:
If anyone does try this, let us know??
hard to buy an imported Spanish Red for single digits I would have thought
Absolutely impossible for a vintage. The Toro Bravo table red is $8.95 the bottle, and it's sturdy and reliable, but it's not a vintage.
Vintages begin around $16 a bottle and run upward from there. Spanish and Portuguese high end bottles that we can actually acquire go to about $55 max.
I have a collection of albarinos, godellos, Viyuras, verdejos a few Mencias, a few Ruedas... and blends from Rioja. I think I have one Chianti in my cellar now and zero from anywhere else these days.
The California and Pacific NW wines are all over $30 a bottle here, and I can happily have a verdejo instead of a vouvray.... I loathe Shiraz, and I find most of the Agentinian and Chilean wines to be too "single note"....
I managed to find two Kopke ports ( ruby for cooking a tawny for sipping) today, but I know I won't find a Kopke white port again until I am back on the peninsula...
Each to their own In the UK during the 80's my favourite was Sainsbury's Claret.I loathe Shiraz, and I find most of the Agentinian and Chilean wines to be too "single note".......
Robo, a couple of bottles? How many of you were having dinner?We had a couple of bottles of Rioja yesterday with a massive home cooked Paella.
Plain Rioja was about $15 (AUD) and Reserva $35 (AUD)
No sure if I care if it is available in Australia, that would be a long way to go for a glass of wine. Is it available in NZ? Or were you thinking that we are a quick drive across the Sydney Harbour Bridge?This wine was No #34 on the Wine spectator's list (worldwide list) of 2019 and retailed in Canada for $25. The average price of the first 33 on this list was (wait for it) $99. Seems to me worth a try at least...But I don't think it is available in Australia, though it piqued my curiosity hence the blurb above.
And in my case that is 9.99 New Zealand doubloons!25 doubloons too rich for my blood for a Spanish red. I too have a 9.99 ceiling for daily meal wines.
Clearly they know me well because when I went to that site they offered me the 2016 vintage for E9.96!The Camino goes past it's entrance. See https://www.godelia.es/en/winery/
We can get it for 11.75 euros https://www.decantalo.com/en/godelia-tinto.html
In the UK in the 70's it was generally agreed that 1.99 was a good year.Each to their own In the UK during the 80's my favourite was Sainsbury's Claret.
I didn't know that.For some reason, probably easily explained by an economist, most Bierzo wines are cheaper to buy from Portuguese merchants.
Well, mostly the ones that I have found offered for sale I think it may be related to local Alcohol Duty and IVA or producers off-loading surpluses.Only most Bierzo wines ?.
I found these bottles of red from Bierzo in our local liquor store today. I actually laughed out loud when I saw the logo. Wondering who might be inclined to make *THAT* their new Camino tattoo.
Anyway, didn’t buy a bottle. Wonder if anyone can recommend for or against?
Yes, we can say that Invierno is the Camino of Mencia and Godello because Ribeira Sacra has those grapes too.The Camino de Invierno goes through the Bierzo region, particularly in A Rua and Barco de Valdeorras, and you will get great red Mencía wine in every bar and restaurant. Godello is the name of the white wine, I believe. So the bodegas name of Godelia is a bit confusing.
I often wonder if the PRICE of a wine has anything to do with the taste?25 doubloons too rich for my blood for a Spanish red. I too have a 9.99 ceiling for daily meal wines.
You're not?Or were you thinking that we are a quick drive across the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
Only when I get lost and especially after too much cheap red wineYou're not?
Alvaro Palacios and his family make great wine, relatively new to Bierzo but his Priorat’s are wonderful. Les Terrasses, yum.I've never had a bad Bierzo wine but it is hard to come by in the UK. Recently I did find one wine merchant who would deliver a case or a half case to your door either mixed of of one vintage.
There was one I quite fancied and thought, at £96 a half case, was a bargain. I was entering the details at checkout when I noticed it was £96 a bottle and quickly logged off.
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Think I might perhaps ask for this for my 70th birthday next year . . .
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I have had that while on the Camino Frances. I remember I was invited to dinner with some other pilgrims, but they were staying at a different albergue and asked me to bring a bottle of wine. That is what I bought. That was in Portomarin.Last night’s tipple - AUD16 here in Oz.
I might get this on one shoulder and the traditional shell on the other. At 72 y/o, I entertain anything nowadays.I found these bottles of red from Bierzo in our local liquor store today. I actually laughed out loud when I saw the logo. Wondering who might be inclined to make *THAT* their new Camino tattoo.
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Wow, I would be asking someone else to try it too, so much great wine IN that area for 2-3 euros a bottle.As always the small print reveals all: 24.75+20c (deposit)=24.95.
Did you use the ’fabled’ rice cooker???We had a couple of bottles of Rioja yesterday with a massive home cooked Paella.
Plain Rioja was about $15 (AUD) and Reserva $35 (AUD)
This is a great find & would be a perfect gift for my 'Camino sisters'. I'll see if I can get it in BC, Canada.Lovely information! Thank you!
And yeah, *nothing* in Ontario comes in single digits except for about 3 table wines from Portugal, and the Toro Bravo from Spain. They are quite nice, truly. But sometimes I like something really special.
Thanks for the advice about the general quality of this one (and its comparators).
Nah, not in Connecticut or MA many Spanish reds under $10. Portuguese also but you can pay more for certain bottles.hard to buy an imported Spanish Red for single digits I would have thought
I read that the Australian albariño is savagnin blanc.I bought a bottle of Pazo Barrantes Albarinho today. We like white when the weather is so hot,
the guy tried to get me to buy Australian albarinho, I soon set him right.