10 year vintage - on the shelf?!

How to squash another myth about wine.

Vintage isn’t the age of the wine - it’s the year it was bottles (to simplify it).

Regions and countries differ slightly with what they deem a vintage - but it’s not how old it is that classifies it as a vintage!

Now when vinyards bottle and classify a vintage they tend to get it out within a few years.

Unless it’s an investment wine and the scarcity ups the price to daft and beyond!

Collecting wine is good - but there will come a time where it has to be consumed or it will become vinegar and probably make you ill!

A mate messaged me on then weekend and said the Rioja (see pic) is off the chart.

Plus unusual that it has a 2011 (10 year) vintage label!

I have to say I’ve not seen a shelf wine with such a long standing vintage date!

Lidl wines get better with each visit though. I did some work with a fantastic group of people for Lidl a few years ago and the senior bod used to be a wine buyer for them.

What a job!!! Buying wine, sampling and deciding it’s quality enough to hit the shelves!!!

Well this ones gone though that and here goes nothing! (Well tomorrow night, not today - it’s 7:49 am 😜😜😜)

Lidl £8.49 - hurry while stocks last.

I’ve deviated from the Nappa valley to try one of these out!