[Drinking] Red wine recommendations please

[Triggaaar]

I'd like to buy someone a nice bottle or two (or three) of red, and since we have a few drinkers here, I'm looking for some recommendation please

He likes bold reds and these days mostly goes for Malbec (often stocking up when it's on sale, always paying less than £10 a bottle I think). Above his general budget I think he likes Barolo.

I'd like recommendations of anything that beats a £10 Malbec, with a budget of £20 to £50 please

I can order online, or collect around the Brighton area.

Thanks

 

[Gwylan]

Go to Butler's Wine Cellar on Queens Park Rd. Henry will sort out something that you want

 

[Godstar]

Get yourself over to Butlers wine (Queens Park Road or St George’s Road). I like big reds & a favourite is an Italian called Gran Passione (£14.99). As a matter of fact you’ve talked me into buying a few today

 

[Triggaaar]

Go to Butler's Wine Cellar on Queens Park Rd. Henry will sort out something that you want

Get yourself over to Butlers wine (Queens Park Road or St George’s Road).

I already had his website open

Still, I'd just be yet another customer wandering in asking the same question, so I thought I'd ask you guys for some of your recommendations

I like big reds & a favourite is an Italian called Gran Passione (£14.99). As a matter of fact you’ve talked me into buying a few today��

Glad I could help
Where will you get your Gran Passione?

 

[Steve in Japan]

https://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/ProductDetail.aspx?pd=SP14011

I liked this. But to be fair I like most red wine.....

 

[TheJasperCo]

I like Yellow Tail. Cheap, widely available and tasty.

 

[pasty]

I'm no red wine buff by any stretch of the imagination, but I do enjoy Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

A firm favourite of our wine club that meets across in the park most mornings is called Buckfast

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Châteauneuf du pape, or a Côtes du Rhône.
Both very nice reds from the Rhône region of France

 

[pearl]

A firm favourite of our wine club that meets across in the park most mornings is called Buckfast

that's the Tonic!

 

[Diablo]

Châteauneuf du pape, or a Côtes du Rhône.
Both very nice reds from the Rhône region of France

Agree with Chateaneuf du pape but normally expensive....Most Riojas IMO good alternative.

 

[Surf's Up]

I love Malbec and I also love Ribera Del Duero, a Spanish red from Castile and Leon.

 

[The Mole]

Can thoroughly recommend Chocolate Block...
And anything from the Boutkenhoutskloof label - although they are difficult to source in the UK

 

[brakespear]

Chianti

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Agree with Chateaneuf du pape but normally expensive....Most Riojas IMO good alternative.

It’s worth keeping an eye out in Lidl, normally have a chateauneuf in there for around a tenner

 

[Superphil]

Get onto Hailsham Cellars, order a bottle, or two, of St Hallett Old Block Shiraz, it is in my opinion the finest bottle of wine you will find for £50.

It truly is tremendous.

https://www.hailshamcellars.com/product/st-hallett-old-block-shiraz-2014/

 

[The Large One]

Brunello di Montalcino - £30 in Quaff, Ditchling Road / Portland Road.

 

[BensGrandad]

My favourite is Vino Noble Di Multipuciano you should be able to get a decent one at the upper end of your price bracket. Super markets usually sell the rubbish version D'Abrusso. I am not a wine buff and tend to stick with what I know and like which at the moment tends to be either Chataneuf Du Pape or Morgon as I can no longer afford Vino Noble as a regular drink.

 

[RandyWanger]

Châteauneuf du pape, or a Côtes du Rhône.
Both very nice reds from the Rhône region of France

Agree with this, something that's 5 years old on the bottle should be good to drink right now.

I was recently in Cave du Verger des Papes and stocked up.

 

[perseus]

Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile