Gateway Reds. Best Reds. Best easy drinking reds? Either way, if you’re new to red wine what better place to start than here with my Red Wine 101 🍷
I’m breaking down the best big-name red wines for beginners – the brands you already recognise – and seeing which bottles are actually worth your money (and which to avoid).🍷
No snobbery. No waffle. Just a solid place to start and get back on the wagon after Dry January!
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Tasting:
Blueprint Romanian Pinot Noir – Waitrose £7.25
Campo Viejo Rioja Tempranillo – Sainsbury’s £9.25
Grant Burge Shiraz – Waitrose £10
Kooliburra Jammy Shiraz – Aldi £10.99
Trivento Reserve Malbec – Tesco £8.75
Terre Di Faiano Primitivo Organic Puglia – Waitrose £11.50
Dark Horse Cabernet Sauvignon – Tesco £10.25
37 Comments
The Grant Burge Shiraz is delicious and very drinkable; first time I tried it, wont be the last. That and theTerre Di Faiano Primitivo are both on special offer in Waitrose. Stock up.
Thank you . I cant wait to try a few of these. You've been the judge, and I trust your judgement. Job done Sir.
The jammy is supposed to be served chilled to take the taste down a few notches because it's that sweet FYI.
Oh wow, these videos just make my day!! I've been loving the Trivento for a while but Dark Horse is next on the list 🍷
Ha, only watched because i saw my Jammy red in the thumbnail.
Each to their own, but i love the stuff.
I'd love to see a selection and review of the best £5 bottles of red, or as close to a fiver as possible!! The supermarkets are gouging us and we want to hit back…
At least when you burped you didn't spray any jammy piss all over the table!
For me, Jammy Red is how you think wine is going to taste when you’re five.
I refuse to buy Trivento because of those insufferable 'bold discovery' twats they had in their launch campaign, only to be replaced by knowingly smug 'bold discovery' twats in the next version.
I've never fallen harder nor faster for anyone than Tom Gilbey. Swilling appreciatively on one of your recommendations rn, and nothing better to knock it back with than more videos xx
@tomgilbeywine Could you do a review of my go to red wine (Via Vincini Gran Rosso) It's in Asda for £8.75 ? 👍
I bought a bottle of Campo Viejo here in Australia based on your comments It was 18:50 and just a brilliant wine, for me, I will be returning back to.
Haha well done "Fred" for the turd in the punch bowl!
Red Horse not impressed because I really appreciate your recommendations 😮
Why don't we need to know that Shiraz is a syrah? I didn't know that.
where's the video on the shit they put into wine, can't find it. Love the videos btw
Brindisi dop rosso! ? Lydl . Would love to know your thoughts.
I'm not going to lie; my twin sibling has tried for the past decade to get me into drinking wine; and all it took was me watching some of Tom's video's to get me trying it. I can see the appeal.
No arse 😢
I have just stumbled upon this channel and I am obsessed. I lived in Greece for 4 years and I am equally obsessed with Greek wine. The best kept secret in the wine world in my opinion. I have noticed it it is starting to hit the uk market (Sainsbury’s and M&S) and the variety is a little hit and miss if I am honest – the one is Sainsbury’s this year was absolute arse – to put it your way – but M&S have some imported some solids. However the real stuff in Greece is the absolute nuts and incredibly diverse. Would love to see your take a) on the good stuff and b) on the stuff in available in uk stores.
Can somebody put the heating on so that Tom doesn't feel the need to wear a scarf inside😁👍
Been drinking the Dark Horse CS for a couple of years. Love it
Tom deffo knows his onions..amongst other stuff n all
Just when I thought I couldn’t love u more- the burp 😂❤🍷
That Aldi Jammy Red is never £10.99 only £6.59 in Scotland?, I'd sooner rather jump along to Lidl pay less than a £1 more for the Cabernet Sauvignon Coonawarra 🍷😊
Love your videos but got a bit worried when I spotted the Jammy Red. Was thinking, if he likes that I’m outta here but thankfully,,, 👍
Trivento malbec was £7 in my local ASDA yesterday. Bargain.
Loaded up on 3 of these from Waitrose today – Dark Horse, the syrah and the Puglia – I know the pinot noir already
This is an amazing format!
Gives a novice like me a chance to start building up a 'collection' of wines to give options whilst hosting etc.
It would be interesting to see this exact thing repeated at different price brackets. So that people can build & improve their collection and knowledge over time
I have zero idea if this guy has any credentials whatsoever but I'm still going to do what he says with no further research 😂
Did the Dark Horse Cab Sav last night with some steak and it was utterly delicious – Over the weekend though, we found our new favourite in the Terre Di Faiano Primitivo Organic Puglia – had to go back to Waitrose to buy more – lovely — Thanks Tom.
i wonder what Tom would think of wines from Virgin. The Black Pig is their best seller.
I can't stand red – it's headache material .
Jammy Red – with added sugar?
I was given a glass once and there wasn't a sink or plant pot nearby. 🤢
All most amusing but to me – useless. A pantomime featuring a lot of capering around waving wine bottles about.
In the 55+ years I've been drinking wine I've had the good fortune to taste many stunners – a glass of Chateau d'Yquem from a bottle about to be served to Lord Lew Grade's lunch guests , Chateau Lynch Barge 1966 and wines bought by The Photographers' Wine Soc at sales by Sotheby's/Christies', for example.
There's more than bringing a wine up from 'cave' temp to serving temp about the process of 'chambré-ing' a red wine. Mr. Gilbey is perfectly aware of this but clearly he has no interest in giving some of otherwise acceptable wines a chance to show what they're capable of.
I recall a couple of heart and lung specialist medics, also wine enthusiasts, running tests on the effects of various ways of getting air into a red wine. They had access to a machine that measures oxygen content – usually of blood but on its day off it measured the 02 content of wine. Suffice to say that the worst results were the taste straight out of the bottle. They established a 'best' but that doesn't concern us here. The point is that a red wine must be allowed some time to breath.
So i ain't buying jammy red then 😂😂😂😂😂😂
He keeps talking abou the Jammy Red. Come on, Tom, get out of the closet!