Cut-price Chablis, if it comes from Waitrose, is worth watching for, and the latest is no exception. A product of the excellent Cave es Vignerons, as fine a French co-operative as you will find, it is a classic of its kind, an unostentatiously alluring white burgundy at full price (£11.99) but reduced until March15 to £9.49.
Though it possesses the wine’s bench-mark steeliness, this 2014 version is not at all aggressive. In fact, though it shows its mettle, it is attractively light and pretty, not marred by oakiness, and lovely to drink before a meal as during one. It is what I have been buying recently and shall keep on doing so for the coming week or two.
Not that it has no rivals. Triade, produced from three good southern Italian grapes (fiano, greco, falanghina) is another current Waitrose offer which, though obviously different, can be drunk in the same sort of way. This 2014 Bianco Campania, down from £8+ to £6.59, knocks spots off many a more familiar Italian white, and is worth sipping on any occasion.
Rather dearer, but forming a conspicuous part of Lidl’s Easter array of bottles, a 2014 Montagny at £11.99 looks like being worth a try. Montagny, though not the most famous of white burgundies, is almost always worth buying, and The Times has advised us to grab this one now. I’ll be letting you know what I think of it.
6 March 2016
Though it possesses the wine’s bench-mark steeliness, this 2014 version is not at all aggressive. In fact, though it shows its mettle, it is attractively light and pretty, not marred by oakiness, and lovely to drink before a meal as during one. It is what I have been buying recently and shall keep on doing so for the coming week or two.
Not that it has no rivals. Triade, produced from three good southern Italian grapes (fiano, greco, falanghina) is another current Waitrose offer which, though obviously different, can be drunk in the same sort of way. This 2014 Bianco Campania, down from £8+ to £6.59, knocks spots off many a more familiar Italian white, and is worth sipping on any occasion.
Rather dearer, but forming a conspicuous part of Lidl’s Easter array of bottles, a 2014 Montagny at £11.99 looks like being worth a try. Montagny, though not the most famous of white burgundies, is almost always worth buying, and The Times has advised us to grab this one now. I’ll be letting you know what I think of it.
6 March 2016
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