Decent red wine for a tenner? (better than Barossa Ink)

Morrisons Barbera d'Asti. Normally £8.00 now £6.50

Slightly hesitant to recommend on this thread but is astonishing value. If you get Italian wines and like the acidity and sour fruit nature, you'll like this. If I'd bought a nebbiolo based wine at triple the price I'd be happy if it tasted like this

Definitely a food wine. Good partner for robust tomato based Italian food

TBF that Barbera I recommended is so good that if came in a bottle with a label from a more distinguished North Italian DOC I wouldn't be sorry to drop £20 on it.

It will appeal to those who 'get' Italian reds. Appreciate that they are not for everyone and there are some shocking examples of poor winemaking from Italy which could put off the less determined Supermarket stocking of Italian wine is no guarantee of quality as it might be for South West France, Portugal or Spain

That's always been my headache when I've tried Italian reds - there's a lot of 'variability' out there, and some of the varieties are only for the determined, IYSWIM.

If I'm out at a decent Italian restaurant, or with my (half-eyetie) best mate who knows his onions (metaphorically), then I'm more relaxed. But I've tended to veer away from them in the supermarket.

I'm not a wine drinker, but I keep hearing people saying how nice 19 Crimes red wine is. They say that if you scan the QR code on the bottle then you get a video of the criminal telling you what crime they did?

Was in Asda today and they had that ^^ bottle reduced from £10 to £8, so I grabbed one. I'll try it tonight. What's the score with this, open and leave it to breathe for a while first?

Mass market wines are fined and filtered to within an inch of their lives so no need to 'decant' in the traditional way as there will be no sediment.

As far as airing is concerned, you can invert the bottle over a jug let the contents glug out and pour the wine back into the bottle. Will not do any harm at all and will usually help 'open up' a young wine.

Has anyone posted up the M&S La Cascala Passivento Primitivo?

On 1/3 off sale right now £6 something. Really good wine.

....surely this has to be the thread winner!

a 2016 Chateau Pomerol (14.5%) for £9.99!!

This is a wine that Laithwiates show for £36

The Sancerre was £6.99

Both on special offer at Aldi

I'm trying the Pomerol tonight and I don't expect to be disappointed for £10

Amazing price for that quality… I’d be emptying the shelves of every Aldi in my area.

Given the love for alcoholic ribeana on here (fruity/sweet/no tannins), I reckon most wouldn’t enjoy though.

And £7 for Sancerre… also amazing.

There’s not much I miss about living in the UK, but access to the global wine market is one of them… here in Spain it’s 99% Spanish, and what wines you find from France or Italy are either rubbish, or frighteningly expensive. I have to spend a lot of time trawling the shelves to find something different to Tempranillo.

I was going to post a snotty reply about there being so such thing as 'Chateau Pomerol' assuming you weren't comparing like with like. But it looks like I might have to have a sniff about in the local Aldi for Chateau Moulinet. There's also a Margaux on offer - Chateau d'Arsac which I can't find elsewhere for less than £26. A nice Pomerol and a nice Margaux are almost perfect for showing what Bordeaux can do with its two main grape varieties. Neither will be in Ribena territory and maybe a bit austere at this age

Mea Culpa, but you knew what I meant!

...and you were right about it needing time