oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
A whisky professional ( not me ) once described Laphroaig as tasting like old socks steeped in disinfectant. We were trying to replicate the taste in the lab but could not quite get it right.
Aldi Wine Description. Does this tickle your taste buds?
- Thread starter Dave7
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craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
Have you a link? Asking for a friendThey are advertising a Spanish red wine as tasting of "tobacco and Cigar Boxes".
mmmm, just cant wait to get a bottle of wine that tastes of tobacco AND cigars
Its in their free magazine in the store.Have you a link? Asking for a friend
I am sure you can get it online.
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
We have tried ALDI wine, some is better than others, we tend to go for the percentage 13.5 + % and the description being fruity. Before now we have had a bottle of red that smelt and tasted of leather and it was actually rather nice.
We tend to shop at Aldi, as against Lidl but my feeling is that £ for £ Lidl wine is better ie we dont pay much for everyday plonk and I think £5.00 will get you better/nicer wine at Lidl.
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
We don't have a Lidl anywhere near us whereas Aldi is a short walk up the road. Our Coop have a really good selection, Malbec, Merlot etc...
Yes.... the Coop have some limited good offers on. We got a nice rose last week for £4.50
But it "nose" as cigar box! The similarity is very close!
Again leather or savory is a classic tasting note.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I couldn't find the wine listed online but there was an Argentinian wine with tobacco named in the tasting notes.
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
A really good rioja has a leather taste.
...because the Rioja grapes are high in tannin and tannin is used in...
also, a bacterial contaminant in some wine ( brettanomyces (Brett)) has a sweaty saddle/horse blanket smell to it, at low levels this is actually quite good at high levels, pretty nasty
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
just how many people have tasted leather, tobacco and cigar boxes or indeed sweaty socks steeped in dissinfectant to be able to compare the taste of a drink to it to it.
it is smell not taste that these note refer to
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
not according to the op @Dave7 , or @oldwheels or @Lullabelle they all say taste like not smell like
