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Sabre wrote:

andy_g wrote:look out for this one in the uk supermarkets - Nabas del Emperador, a 2006 ribera from spain. i'm getting it for about 2.5 euro over here so i suppose it'll crop up around the 7 or 8 quid mark over there. well worth it though in my most humble opinion.

I was checking the post office a year ago because I wanted to send a couple of Rioja bottles to some friends of newkit and everything I found was problems. They have well studied the thing so that you can't send more than two bottles to England without being extortionated.

extortionated - that sounds painful

Sabre wrote:

andy_g wrote:look out for this one in the uk supermarkets - Nabas del Emperador, a 2006 ribera from spain. i'm getting it for about 2.5 euro over here so i suppose it'll crop up around the 7 or 8 quid mark over there. well worth it though in my most humble opinion.

I was checking the post office a year ago because I wanted to send a couple of Rioja bottles to some friends of newkit and everything I found was problems. They have well studied the thing so that you can't send more than two bottles to England without being extortionated.

I've remembered now I forgot about it (sending bottles), the fúcking problem is that you must send one by one the bottles and they charge a decent amount for it.  But I will!

Question for you Andy: If you go to England now there's a limit of bottles you can bring with you to enter the country?

as long as you can convince them it is for your own personal use i don't think there is a limit. that's why every day there is a fleet of white vans coming off the dover ferries full to bursting with beer and fags 'for a mate's party'.

ConnO'var wrote:Not really a wine person.... like Bamaga, I'm more of an ale and beer sort of a guy, though I enjoy a nice single malt from time to time.

I do like the Aussie Shiraz's though... One that I particularly liked was the Wolf Blass 2002 Grey Label which was brought in by friends from Sydney. Enjoyed that one I did.... even though it was a screw on cap and I understand that means it's a cheaper wine? Couldn't give a rat's @rse to be honest cause it was a nice drop.

Woof's right about the screw caps, Con, but you'll still want to avoid wines in tetra packs for a while.

woof woof ! wrote:

ConnO'var wrote:I do like the Aussie Shiraz's though... One that I particularly liked was the Wolf Blass 2002 Grey Label which was brought in by friends from Sydney. Enjoyed that one I did.... even though it was a screw on cap and I understand that means it's a cheaper wine? Couldn't give a rat's @rse to be honest cause it was a nice drop.

That was a long held perception Con but it's no longer true and as cork becomes more expensive more and more producers are looking at the screw cap alternative with interest.

The majority of people associate screw tops with cheap jug wine swill. So if you bring a screw top wine to a party, you may feel you need to bring a receipt and explanation. However, screw tops are rapidly replacing corks with many wine producers in an effort to combat "corked" wine and provide greater quality control.

The wine industry estimates that anywhere between 2 and 8 percent of all wines are corked, meaning that they are spoiled by oxygen or bacteria that enters the wine via a defective cork. Corked wine tends to have an immediate, unpleasant wet-newspaper smell and unfortunately it is difficult to tell if a wine has been "corked" prior to opening the bottle.

The job a wine cork serves is simple: to keep the wine inside the bottle and the air out. Because of its porous nature, cork has a deficient sealing capability in comparison to a screw cap. Screw tops now are so precise that the winemaker can adjust the tightness of the seal to allow more or less outside air to enter the bottle, without the risk of cork taint.

New Zealand vintners such as Tohu and Matua, California wineries such as RH Phillips and Whitehall Lane, and Washington's Hogue Cellars all widely use screw tops in place of cork. RH Phillips even included a tongue-in-cheek decorative cork with an explanation about why screw tops are preferable to corks and suggested alternate uses for the cork. Screw cap usage is not limited to low-end wines: PlumpJack Winery used screw caps with half of its 2000 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon that retails for more than $100 per bottle.

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NANNY RED wrote:My Friends in Spain gave me a couple of bottles of wine as a prezzy for my husband cause he loves wine. Ive never heard of them but he loved the Red

Beronia Crianza 2004 its a Riojo

Havent opend the white one yet but the name on the bottle is

Rias Baixas Albarino Morgadio

They also gave me A Bottle of Gran Duque D Alba Solera Gran Reserva

Its in Spanish so i cant understand what it is
Anyone know if im gonna get poisend

woof woof ! wrote:Think our favourites are Berberana Rioja Gran Reserva (2000 is the best year)

glugging a bottle of that as we speak - but the 2003 one, it was on half price at tesco's the other week for a fiver a pop.

riojas er...  riock

andy_g wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:My Friends in Spain gave me a couple of bottles of wine as a prezzy for my husband cause he loves wine. Ive never heard of them but he loved the Red

Beronia Crianza 2004 its a Riojo

Havent opend the white one yet but the name on the bottle is

Rias Baixas Albarino Morgadio

They also gave me A Bottle of Gran Duque D Alba Solera Gran Reserva

Its in Spanish so i cant understand what it is
Anyone know if im gonna get poisend

albarino is one of the finest white wines known to the human race, nanny. it comes from galicia, the part of spain my girlfriend is from. there are few better things in life than sitting out in a little galician port on a summers afternoon with some fine seafood and a glass or two of albarino. and the rias baixas is a bit of a paradise as well.

Ill have to have a little sip then

Whats this one though Gran Duque D Alba Solera Gran Reserva its still in the box.


You cant beat the real Aussie Whites though from Yates in town