What do you look for in a wine?
I love the BBC news.
So I was interested when I saw an article titled "Don't know your Merlot from your elbow?"
At the end of this article there were people's comments on how they pick their wine at the store. I thought I'd share a few with you:
"The bigger the dent in the bottom of the bottle, the better the wine (so I've been told)."
Kate, Bristol
I go for three things:
1. Full bodied
2. New world
3. Half price
It's served me well so far.
Sue, London
My criteria:
1. must be between £5 and £10;
2. must have an animal on the label;
3. must be from S. Africa, Chile or Australia and
4. definitely not French.
Derek Ramone Crawford, Edinburgh, Scotland
I always choose my wine by the alcohol volume.
Mandy Phelps, Quedgeley, Gloucester, UK
All my family choose on the shape of the bottle. A nicer shaped bottle is bound to have nice tasting wine inside and a boring, plain bottle something not so nice.
Annabel Cook, Ipswich
I prefer a nice grape juice, and tend to find it tastes of grapes...
Alex El Jundi, The Hague
I think I'm going to have to take some of these people's advice, especially that last guy... man, he knows how to pick 'em!
So I was interested when I saw an article titled "Don't know your Merlot from your elbow?"
At the end of this article there were people's comments on how they pick their wine at the store. I thought I'd share a few with you:
"The bigger the dent in the bottom of the bottle, the better the wine (so I've been told)."
Kate, Bristol
I go for three things:
1. Full bodied
2. New world
3. Half price
It's served me well so far.
Sue, London
My criteria:
1. must be between £5 and £10;
2. must have an animal on the label;
3. must be from S. Africa, Chile or Australia and
4. definitely not French.
Derek Ramone Crawford, Edinburgh, Scotland
I always choose my wine by the alcohol volume.
Mandy Phelps, Quedgeley, Gloucester, UK
All my family choose on the shape of the bottle. A nicer shaped bottle is bound to have nice tasting wine inside and a boring, plain bottle something not so nice.
Annabel Cook, Ipswich
I prefer a nice grape juice, and tend to find it tastes of grapes...
Alex El Jundi, The Hague
I think I'm going to have to take some of these people's advice, especially that last guy... man, he knows how to pick 'em!
posted by Sipwine at 9:42 AM
3 Comments:
Awesome. The first bottle of wine I ever bought I chose because a guy next to me (who looked very very gay) chose it. I just chose the same because I assumed gay men would know the good wines.
It was crappy. And acidic. ;)
"I choose my wine by alcohol volume" is actually kind of a great way to look at it.
I used to work at a wine shop... before I turned 21, years ago. So all of the potential wine learning I could have done was lost, and now I just try and pick labels that I recognize from those days.
I pick anything in a Cabernet that's under $15 and not in a box... That stuff is all kinds of awful.
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