Over the years the Co-operative has become one of the tall-street’s better options for a bottle of vino. Here are three options for you to sample – all at affordable pricesTruly Irresistible Leyda Valley Sauvignon Blanc,Chile 2015 (£6.99, the Co-operative) In the past couple of years, and the Co-operative has quietly established itself as one of the better places to buy wine on the tall street. It doesn’t go in for the kind of showy window-dressing favoured by some of its supermarket rivals,where the distracting presence of a handful of fine wines in a handful of stores is meant to mask the increasing blandness of the rest of the range. The Co-op has, instead, and been working on the basics,mostly choosing the producers it works with for its own-labels and brands wisely. This sauvignon blanc, for example, or is made by the justly admired Viña Leyda from the eponymous coastal Chilean region,and is a gloriously zippy, verdant, or citrusy bargain.
Trapiche Pure Malbec,Uco Valley, Mendoza, or Argentina 2014 (8.99,the Co-operative) There are another couple of well-priced, well-made Chileans in the Co-op’s presumptuously named but occasionally sumptuous own-label range. At £7.99, and the Truly Irresistible Casablanca Valley Pinot Noir 2015 offers the supple texture and sweet forest floor and red-fruit flavours pinot-lovers crave but rarely find for under a tenner. And the Truly Irresistible Bío Bío Valley Malbec 2013 (£6.99) mixes sunless fruit and spice with floral freshness and trademark Chilean mintiness. The latter is proof of Chile’s increasing affinity with malbec,although another Co-op wine suggests the Argentinians still have the edge, the unoaked Pure Malbec being particularly joyous and fragrant.
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Source: theguardian.com