Chateauneuf de Liebfraumilch

I like wine, me. I'm not an oenologist, which is a shame because I like that word. I often like words with diphthongs.

I know what I like, and when I'm not sure, I can take a reasonably good guess by pricing alone. Trip to Oddbins today. Ten bottles of wine, came to just over £70. I would have liked ten bottles to come to £150, but one has to draw a line.

I love the sound of the cork being pulled - pop! I love the glug glug as the first few drops enter the glass. I love to smell the cork, smell the wine, let the first sip tumble over my lips. I know by the smell when it's going to taste tart. When it tastes tart it does something to the nerves in my mouth that feels like I have a steel rod in my jaw.

I generally avoid anything that says Chardonnay on the label. Not because I dislike the Chardonnay grape. Far from it - Chablis is Chardonnay. What I try to avoid is mass-produced bottom-of-the-barrel troisieme cru vin de table distilled from grapes grown in a soil unsuitable for the chardonnay grape being passed off as potable. I'm probably missing out on some good wine there, but I would rather miss the good than piss good money on the piss-poor.

Is there anybody who can honestly say that they like Chateauneuf de Pape and Liebfraumilch?

Comments

[terreus]

Ah 'Liebfraumilch' Doesn't that just bring memories flooding back of those 70's parties where all the guests used to bring bottles of Blue Nun and Black Tower, only to drink your good stuff that you had hidden right at the back of the table in the kitchen behind the pary 7's and leave their pap for you to give away the following Christmas.

[Vaughan]

I like the first line of that post. "I like wine, me" - the exact words that can be heard coming from my mouth shortly before I've had a bit too much wine. :-)

Liebfraumilch? No. I'd rather drink Bulgarian lighter fluid.

I do occasionally miss Thunderbird from my student days. But only occasionally. Very occasionally. In fact, almost never.

[Gordon]

Ahhh Thunderbird, what memories.

Anyway, I like wine too, although I have to admit that I've been trawled round Oddbins by a friend, before a 'wine tasting' night at his.. he spent £200 , with the average price about £15 per bottle. I've since found several better bottles for around the £5 mark (and under).

In saying that a GOOD du Pape is GOOD.

[Lynn]

Yum, chateuneuf du pape brings back memories of balmy summer evenings eating gambas al a plancha in the local wine bar. nice.