Whats a the best red wine you have tried?

Answer 1

d'Arenberg - The Laughing Magpie - Shiraz / Viognier

I love this wine for the intense flavours, the oily viscosity and the inky blackness. It's about $30 here and probably not what a sommelier would chose as best, but I love it. I'm including tasting notes from Anthony Gismondi a local wine writer.

The Laughing Magpie is a blend and style that has its roots in the Rhône Valley in ‘Cote Rôtie’, where viognier is grown alongside the shiraz in the vineyards and hence picked and vinified together to create a highly perfumed red wine. The '00 has an intense black cherry colour and an open peppery, meaty, sausage, chocolate, boysenberry nose streaked with blackberry jam, vanilla cream, leather and floral notes. The viognier tends to intensify and open up the aromas. Gorgeous rich, round wine with big opulent black cherry jam, orange rind, licorice, peppery, floral flavours. Very balanced and ripe with good acidity and some dry tannins to shed. Big and good value. Definitely worth trying and then laying away for a few years.

Answer 2

I really like Riojan wines especially Marques de Riscal.
We are still waiting for the grape qualification for this year, but the signs are that wine for 2006 will be of excellent vintage. You'll have to wait a couple of years before any Crianza is available and even longer for the Reservas and Gran Reservas, but they should be worth the wait.
My other favourites are Luis Canas and El Coto, (both from Spain). Maybe I'm biased but I've lived in Spain for the last 15 years.

I hate to disagree with one of the earlier answers, but El Campo Viejo is awful. Faustino is okay if you know which one to buy as they do so many. Cahteau neuf de Pape used to be my favourite until I came here. The Spanish are a strange nation in that they keep all the good stuff for themselves and send what they don't want abroad. By the way a quality wine in Spain might set you back about 5/6€, but the really good stuff goes for around 30€.

By the way, do you know what the Spanish do with cheap wine? The mix it with coca-cola and call it Kalimotxo. A very cheap way of getting totally blotto.

Answer 3

The best wine i have ever had is a new zealand pinot noir from the peagasus bay vineyard and it has just been voted best wine in the sky by all top airlines. they have a website but not sure you can get it in the shops. There are some other good ones on the shelves though, wolf blass yellow label, chateau neuf du pape, jj mcwilliams cab sauv......

Answer 4

Very difficult to pick just one, I love all spanish rioja's (Faustino, Campo Viejo, Torres Coronas, Torres Sangre de Toro) but as much as I hate to admit it, it is a French wine that tops my list:

Chateauneuf du Pape (2002)

From the Rhone region, it contains the grape variety: grenache, mouvedre and Syrah. It will set you back around £18 in the supermarket if you can find a 2002, later years you can get for around £10 or 11 quid.

Answer 5

It has to be Chateanu Neuf De Pape..
It is quite expensive (about £15-20 a bottle) but its quality is assured by the French government, there has just been a report published by a nutrition expert who states that french red wine has excellent anti-aging and anti-cancer properties, and most of all its a really excellent quaff !..

Answer 6

I got a quite superb Spanish red for Lidl for £3 last week, went in to get some more and they'd sold out. It was a rioja I think, but I can't remeber the name of it, or the grape. I've still got the bottle so I'll check it out. It was aged in oak for two years and a further 3 in the bottle. I couldn't believe how good it was for so little money!

Answer 7

Auxey-Duresses from Domaine Roulot Burgundy
France this wine is fantastic made from hand picked grapes it also taste better when you no you helped to pic the grapes that went in to the bottle and you no how much care and attention goes into making the wine

Answer 8

At the moment - Blossom Hill Californian red

Otherwise I really like Hidden Vinyard. It's a british red sold in Asda

Answer 9

Robert Sinskey has a great Merlot. Not too dry and a hint of sweetness. I really liked it, but it costs about $35 a bottle. I usually stick with Pinot Noirs and Merlots. Too many different wines to recommend.

Answer 10

A nice Wolf blass Cabernet Shirazz Umm Lovely,
Ripe Fruit And Vanilla ....