Weekly Winedown #38 Terreo Malbec

Anna — Fri, 18 May 2018 18:10:21 +0000

Welcome to the Weekly Winedown. Each week I selflessly drink wine for you and offer a review. Please don’t expect anything professional, I consume a lot of wine but I’m no pro. The only real ‘rule’ I’m putting in place is that the wine is to be under £8 a bottle. #keepitclassy This weekend will see Miss Markle make an honest man of Harry. I hate that term, ‘honest man’ it implies that up until some point tomorrow he was just off galavanting with other women and generally being a bit of a cad, it’s a bit demeaning to be honest. Some of the terms and traditions to do with weddings really are archaic aren’t they yet we (not actually me) bandy them about without thinking. Like when people refer to their hen/stag do as the ‘last night of freedom’. If people really think that they won’t be able to get pissed with their friends ever again, they should probably question why they’re marrying a joy vacuum in the first place. Anyway, I digress, Harry & Meghan are getting wed and I can’t wait. Judge all you will, I don’t give a hoot! I don’t consider myself to be a royalist but I love the pomp and ceremony, it’s also nice to see that being a royal doesn’t stop people whinging about who you do or don’t invite to your wedding as if it’s anyone elses business! The biggest appeal to me though is watching something happy for a change and seeing two people in love marrying one another. I’m such a softie. Let us get ready for wedding celebrations with an expensive (but on special offer) French Malbec. Deja vu? I know it’s a risky move after last weeks Winsom Cousins but I need to right the wrong. The Label Simple and elegant. A square white label with the brand name in purple and the rest in black. Kind of like the front of a menu in a fancy establishment, one that is so fancy it probably doesn’t even take a taste card. The cap is also white, like a magicians gloves. I’m not sure what I make of that though, it makes me uncomfortable. The Blurb “Terreo Malbec is an unique red wine from South West of France. Very deep red colour with shades of purple. Notes of black fruit and vanilla. Great unctuousness in the mouth” It’s one of those fancy labels where they do the blurb in French then put a direct translation underneath, this always strikes me as a little pretentious but in the past, the wines that do this have been good. I particularly like the term ‘unctuosness’ we should use it more in daily life. It’s even nicer in French ‘Grand onctuosite en bouche’. So basically, we’re expecting a rich, intense wine with a hint of vanilla, let’s see! There was so little on the nose, like nothing to declare. A very light scent and everso slightly floral but not a lot more. The taste, intially big – almost unctuous (but not quite) bold red berries in the mouth then nothing. There’s not long taste, it’s just gone. I certainly didn’t get any sense of vanilla at all. It’s certainly not an £11.99 bottle of wine in my opinion, but what do I know? More than Aoife at the very least 😉 Name – Terreo Malbec Price – £5.99 (should be £11.99) Colour – reddy purple Smell – Light, a bit vague Taste – Tart berries, starts big then nothing. Goes well with – A Royal wedding eve Overall score – 3.5/5

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Weekly Winedown #16 Cuvee Tradition Cahors Malbec

Anna — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:47:36 +0000

Welcome to the Weekly Winedown. Each week I selflessly drink wine for you and offer a review. Please don’t expect anything professional, I consume a lot of wine but I’m no pro. The only real ‘rule’ I’m putting in place is that the wine is to be under £8 a bottle. #keepitclassy. Bonsoir mes petits amis au vin! Yes we are in France again today. Not literally. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Drinking wine in a villa in France, all together like a big group of wine drinkers in France! With last week’s rather expensive but half price Biolett’s Block being terribly good, I decided to follow a similar path this week. Say bienvenue to Cuvee Tradition Cahors Malbec. This little lovely, for I hope it is such, should have been £11.99 but was a bargain at £5.99. I hope it lives up to expectation! I’m in a surprisingly chipper mood as it’s Friday and I have done some pretty good parenting this week. We’ve not crafted or anything like that but we’ve barely fallen out. Games have been played. Outdoor ‘activities’ have been done and enjoyed. Cinderella has finally been watched and Aoife’s hair has been cut. For free By me. Winning all over the place. The children are off to my parents tomorrow for a week too! This has no bearing on my chipper mood. It is simply coincidence. So next week is going to be a week for ME, a week full of joy chores and all the things I want need to do. So far my list comprises; Gardening. Cleaning windows. Hoovering the WHOLE house (as opposed to just the bits I can see). Sorting toys Mopping floors. As you can see, I really know how to live. That is the joy of parenthood. Gone are the days when a free week would incorporate a five day bender. Instead, as a parent, you spend a lot of time thinking of things you would do if the kids weren’t there then do none of them when given the opportunity! Keeping the dream alive. We will also be going to London for two nights though so that is pretty exciting. Though last time we went to London we made Seth – TMI? That won’t be happening again this time that’s fo’sho’! Anyway, onto le vin! The label It’s nice and neat, kind of traditional. With a little sketch of the Pont Valentre in Cahors and the coat of arms in gold, it looks the part. It looks like an expensive label, as if it’s made on a heavy weight paper but it actually just feels cheap. I’m not drinking the label though so it doesn’t matter! The blurb “This is a structured, full bodied yet elegant red made using super-ripe Malbec grapes which have been enriched with a hint of oak. This wine is bursting with blackberry and blackcurrant fruit flavours and would make a perfect partner to all types of roasted meats including beef or lamb.” ‘Structured’ that sounds a bit…stiff doesn’t it? Is it going to be an uptight wine? Highly strung? “Like you” I hear you cry! Hush now my friends – I’m as laid back as they come. ‘Full bodied’ with blackberries and a hint of oak. It sounds like the kind of wine that starts sharp then mellows after a few mouthfuls, Let’s see! The colour is perfect – deep, dark red. My favourite colour, or one of them. The aroma was pretty weak if I’m honest, I was expecting it to grab my nose like a Malbec normally would but it didn’t. That’s not to say it was an offensive smell, just a bit *french shrug*. The smell that was there was blackberries, just weak ones. I was expecting a bitter first mouthful but no! It definitely had a blackcurrant burst but was really soft around the edges. If I’m being completely honest it was maybe a bit thin. ZUT ALORS! Thin wine. There was a lovely, peppery aftertaste. Very warming but I don’t think warming enough to win me over. It was certainly no Winter in a bottle as I like a red to be. If I had paid £11.99 for this I would be mortified. To be fair if I paid £11.99 for any wine to drink at home I’d be mortified. The Cahors Malbec was entirely unoffensive but also nothing to write home about. For shame. Name – Cuvee Tradition Cahors Malbec Price – £5.99 (should be £11.99) Colour – Dark red like blood in a B movie. Smell – Weak berries. Taste – Thin, berries with a side of peppery spice. Goes well with – The mundane Overall score – 3/5 – Painfully average, like me.

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