When is a Wine Good or Bad ?

In my more youthful years I can remember going to a wine tasting evening held at one of my son’s school. It was an evening arranged by a very energetic Parent/Teacher Association Group which was, and still is, a great organisation that ‘works’, I believe, in every school in the UK to help raise additional funds for your child’s school. Those who are ‘on the committee’ do so for the love of their child’s school, it is unpaid work. I strongly believe Schools should be a close working unit between teachers, their pupils and parents. Although I know there are always those parents who do offer support a little more than others may…….but that in my experience is life.

However, I digress back to the wine.

One thing I do remember about this evening is the ‘speaker’ telling us that there is a lot of wine snobbery ….but……in the main what we needed to remember was if we liked the taste of the wine then it was a good wine - if we didn’t like the taste then it was bad. Good advice ?

Now if you’ve just bought a bottle of very very expensive wine I hope you enjoy every last mouthful. However, if like me you have bought a fairly reasonable, some may even say in-expensive, bottle I too hope you enjoy every mouthful.

Whether you enjoy one glass or more please be ‘drink aware‘ as the advert says. But please have a read of this article here …which just goes to show you do not have to spend a fortune to enjoy a very reasonable glass of wine, champagne or indeed sherry. My dear dad will be pleased to hear about the later as he does enjoy a glass of sherry once, or twice a week.

If you already have, or will be, reading the article I’ve linked to you will see that the Judges at the International Wine Challenge Awards thought Aldi’s Sherry and Asda’s sauvignon blanc were worth gold medals.

Marks and Spencer topped the medal chart, but all the supermarkets did well, and if you are off to a dinner party soon you may wish to take one of the award winning wines.

I’ll leave you with the words of the International Wine Challenge Committee co-chairman’s words Charles Metcalfe as he said: "The calibre of wines from the supermarket own-brand ranges has been phenomenal this year, and it is great to see them picking up top prizes across all styles.

"From delicious champagnes to tremendous sherries, shoppers can find some lovely wines in the aisles. Each year the quality of the supermarket own-brand wines gets better and better."

Cheers and Good Health.

All the best Jan