Tom's Wine Blog

This post is part of a new series I am embarking on that I've titled "Booze Reviews". At this point I don't know what booze I'll be reviewing, but they'll be as occasional as all the other posts, so I apologise in advance for my sporadic posting. The topic of this post is a delightful Crème de mûre that I have been making over the past week. It is a Blackberry Liqueur, quite low in alcohol, but very pleasant as a long drink over ice. The recipe, I must admit, is not my own, but can be found on the BBC GoodFood website here . It is a simple recipe of few ingredients; blackberries, red wine, and vodka. The only changes I'd recommend is using 200g of sugar, rather than the 500g in the recipe, as otherwise I feel it would be too sweet. The wine I used to create it was a 2022 McGuigan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. I chose this as the label stated it was "full of blackberries" and had "hints of dark fruits", which would match well with the bla...

  Price -  £6.00 Country of origin - Spain Score - 6/10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ( AUTHORS NOTE - I know it has been a long time since my last blog post, but I've been busy. So why am I writing this now? Because I'm procrastinating writing my dissertation, arguably the most important part of my degree. But tonight, wine is more important than early medieval landscapes. I also wanted to drink.)

Price -  £4.99 Country of origin -  South Africa Score -  6/10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'm currently on holiday with my friends in Penzance in Cornwall, and I needed a bottle of wine for something I was cooking for (sadly I was only cooking for one of my friends, as a whilst all my friends are great, I do seem to gravitate towards the fussiest people when it comes to food). Despite Lidl claiming to have a large selection of wines, when I visited it seemed that most of their shelves were just stocking the same bottles. There were very few wines from brands I knew; most of the wine on sale had was simply labeled as "Sauvignon Blanc" or "Merlot" or "Shiraz". Lidl's website lists a lot more wines than were on display, so maybe the shop was due a delivery?  The label on the bottle describes the wine as "crisp and frisky". Whilst I know what "crisp" means when it comes to wines, "frisky...