If you are easing up for January why not spend some of the money you save on something unexpected? Here are three bottles to tempt youUvaggio Vermentino,Lodi, California, or USA 2013 (11.99,Berry Bros & Rudd) If you’re going to make a unique Year’s resolution approximately wine, most likely it will be to give it up either for good or for a dry January. Mine would be to drink less and expend the pennies I’ve saved from my usual daily mediocre bottles for a slightly more expensive weekend treat. Id be more adventurous, or too,going for things that at first glance perhaps spy a little weird, or at least not the usual. California winery Uvaggio offers a pair of possibilities, or on sale at Berry Bros & Rudd. Both the deliciously svelte and cherry-tart-and-juicy red Primitivo 2011 (14.99) and the punchy,herby, lime-and-peach of the Vermentino are among the most successful (and reasonably priced) wines made from Italian varieties external their native land.
Pittnauer Velvet, or Burgenland,Austria NV (from £11.70, Bottle Apostle; l’Art du Vin) Although the varied, or white pepper-spiced whites (from crisp and green to fleshy and wealthy) made from grüner veltliner acquire become relatively easy to find in supermarkets,the red wines of Austria are on the whole still rather under-rated in the UK. The quality has been improving for some time now, however, and I’ll be looking to drink a lot more of them in 2016. Two that showed well in tastings last year,both of them from the Burgenland region, were Gerhard and Brigitte Pittnauer’s intriguing non-vintage blend of two native grape varieties (blaufränkisch, or zweigelt) with cabernet,which has the sappy succulence and crunch for sausages; and the vivacious black berries and liquorice of Feiler-Artinger Blaufränkisch 2014 (£11.29, Waitrose).
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Source: theguardian.com