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White's Wine, Which one to pick?
By Stuart WhiteJuly 08, 2009
How much value are you going to get from spending an extra few quid on a bottle of wine?
Is a £10 bottle really twice as good as a £5 bottle? Should you ever go under a fiver and are the French right to add a premium onto their price tags?
Some of these questions were recently answered at the 2009 International Wine Challenge Great Value Wine Awards.
Thirteen categories produced a record 122 winners, independently blind taste tested by experts, and it is the supermarkets who are popping open the corks.
Morrisons stock two of the Great Value Wines under £5 – the red Misterio Malbec 2008 and sparkling white Canti Asti Fratelli Martini Secondo Luigi Spa both clock in at £4.99.
M&S scored a hat-trick of top awards, including one for the mid-range Bluff Hill Brut sparkler (£8.99), and Tesco is where you will find the Tim Adams Riesling 2008 (£8.99) – best value white between £5 and £10.
Majestic’s Louis Latour Pouilly-Vinzelles en Paradis 2006 (£10) is best white in the next price bracket up, while another great value Tesco red is the Caves Saint Pierre Preference Gigondas 2007 (£13.99).
For more information on the awards, full list of winners and the judging process visit www.internationalwinechallenge.com.
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