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Marks & Spencer Vin De Pays Du Gers |
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23/01/02 (151 review reads) |
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Advantages: Good price on offer
Disadvantages: very dry and sour
OH gawd! I'm at it again! Another alcohol opinion!
Today's subject - Marks and Spencer Vin De Pays du Gers - a French white table wine, though what the "du Gers" bit means I couldn't tell you. I bought two bottles of this just before Christmas and took one bottle over to the parents for Christmas dinner and kept the other in my fridge. We polished off the first bottle over the turkey and I have just hauled the other bottle out of the fridge and finished it off myself.
The description on the bottle made us all laugh - "refreshing and vivacious" - VIVACIOUS?! How so with a wine? It didn't dance around the table or tell us jokes or anything! Although it certainly was refreshing and unusually tangy - I suppose vivacious with its citrus tang of lime and green apples, it certainly tasted of these.
A standard 75cl bottle cost me £5 for two (on offer of course, I always look for the wine offers!). I wouldn't normally shop for food and drink in Marks and Spencer but I was tired, it was on my way back to the bus station and this was on offer. It has an alcohol content of 11% volume - average for a wine of this type it seems. It struck me as very dry and indeed rated 2 on the dryness scale used for white wines (1-9 = driest - sweetest).
Ah! Having read the label I see that "Gers" is in fact the French region from which the grapes used to produce this wine come. Using Colombard and Ugni Blanc grapes produces this very tart, aromatic, dry wine which is one of the sourest in flavour I have ever tried - I certainly wouldn't rate it as a favourite although it went well with Christmas dinner.
As ever this is best serve chilled and recommended with most poultry, salads and seafood or as an aperitif. Personally I think it is better with food than drunk on its own but that obviously depends on your taste.
Not a bad wine for the offer price but I certainly wouldn't be tem
pted by it if it cost any more as it was a little too dry and sour for me personally.
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- 05/02/02 Definitions of vivacious:
adjective: vigorous and active.
So i suppose it could be vivacious. If you want to try a sweeter wine, try the Australian 'ice2' from Tesco. Tastes like melons (honestly!). Nice op, won't be drinking it though. |
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- 24/01/02 short but sweet not like the wine
Alex |
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- 23/01/02 Sounds nice... I love reading your wine ops, even though we have completely opposite tastes! I reckon if you don't like it, I will and vice versa...;)
Hehe great op! |
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