The bottle of posh wine, on a fridgy background
For Valentine’s Day this year, as well as the classic smellies and candle option, I decided to buy some ‘posh wine’.
Me and my fiancee are both red wine lovers, so it wold be something we would both enjoy.
Off to Tesco I went, safe in the knowledge that I have absolutely no wine expertise whatsoever, which meant all I had to worry about was the budget.
I settled on a bottle of 2000 vintage from the ‘posh’ section of the Tesco wine aisle, costing 27.99GBP, their second most expensive red, the most expensive being 99.99GBP.
Now obviously, to the wine coinoisseur, 28 quid for a bottle of wine is most likely bargain basement wine brought out at the end of the party when there isn’t much cheese left (and if there is, it’s either that horrid smoked cheese or that stuff with berries in) and there is vomit in the hedge.
But for us, used to wine costing between 5-6 quid, it was posh.
The first thing that struck us was the weight of the bottle. Noticably heavier than normal. And the indent at the bottom was much deeper.
The second thing that struck me, as I was the one to open it, was the extremely satisfying ’squeak’ of the cork. Both whilst inserting the corkscrew and whilst extracting the fine, also posh, cork.
Mari the fiancee with a serious wine face
We poured two glasses in accordance with the advice from my wine book, did the swirly whing, snorted and held it up to the light, neither of us any the wiser as to what to look or smell for. We just thought we should do it.
captainrendall gives it 'the nose'
Then we tasted it.
It was alright, I suppose. Probably stick to the 5-6 quid range.
Cheap wine, courtesy of Sky
