SAINSBURY'S 2011 TOP SPRING/SUMMER WINES IN PRICE CATEGORY
SUMMARY
Really good Taste The Difference range - if in doubt plump for one of these. Also really good in the £7 to £9 price bracket across the board.
KEY
The reds are written up in this colour
The whites in this colour
Pink in this colour
The fizz in this colour
Desert wines in this colour
WINE PRICE DRINKER RATING
>£5
Sainsbury's Cotes Du Rhone Rosé £4.99 87
Good full fruity nose, nice acidity, raspberry at the fore
Sainsbury's House Tempranillon (Spa) £3.99 85
Good value, uncomplicated wine, spicy nose, forward fruit and tannin
>£10
Sainsbury's Fairtade Pinotage Rosé (SA) £5.99 86
Really well made wine, good fruit notes and refreshing acidity - my house rosé
Taste the Difference Touraine Sauvignon Blanc 2010 (Fra) £7.99 88
Elderflower stalk nose, good fruit on palate, peach and grapefruit
Taste the Difference Petit Chablis 2010 (Fra) £7.99 88
Chalky peach stone aroma, light fresh and creamy palate, complex
Taste the Difference Languedoc White (Fra) £7.99 86
Grassy minerality, good mouth - feel, love it, nice acidity
Taste the Difference Fairtrade Sauvignon Blanc 2010 (SA) £7.99 86
Elderflower aroma, good acidity, great price for a wine like this
Porcupine Ridge Sauvignon Blanc 2010 (SA) £7.99 86
Restrained tropical flavours, mango, lychee and guava. Really well made wine
Mt. Riley Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (NZ) £8.99 86
Hint of tropical fruit sweetness, good stuff, restrained and elegant
Taste the Difference Coolwater Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2010 (NZ) £8.49 86
Chalk minerality and grapefruit on the nose, light lychee on palate
McWilliams J J Verdelho 2010 (aus) £6.99 86
Floral peach blossom nose, good grape-iness on palate
Taste the Difference Hunter Valley Semillon 2010 (aus) £8.99 86
Orange squash note on nose -p pleasing, warm, ripe and zesty
d'Ardenberg TheHermit Crab Marsanne Viognier 2008 (aus) £9.99 86
Floral marsh-mallow nose, good body, acidity and blossom notes
WHITES DONE - NEED TO ADD REDS AND FIZZ - AND POSSIBLY CLASSICS
Pacha -Mama Organic Malbec 2008 (Arg) £6.99 81
Good full rich bramble, nice elements of pepper, stewed fruit.
>£15
