Lidl’s Latest Wine Cellar
The next Lidl Wine Cellar will be instore from Thursday, July 27th. All the Hungarian wines are worth trying, of course, which you can check out here but these are a few of my top suggestions:
Dry Whites
Pouilly-Fumé Les Grandes Chaumes – £9.99 – This well-known Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire is normally much more expensive. Ideal summer drinking.
Haraszthy Sauvignon Blanc – £6.49 – lovely, dry Sauvignon which would be more expensive if from anywhere other than Hungary
Tokaji Furmint Dereszla – £5.99 – As Jane Macquitty says in The Times, “ridiculously good value”. Rather fine, dry Hungarian white.
Riesling Neuberg Pfaffl – £8.99 – my favourite of 3 very good Austrian whites in this selection. Wonderfully pure, appetising, dry Riesling.
Morio-Muskat – £5.49 – Not surprisingly Lidl are very good at sourcing German wines. This is fresh, grapey and ideal for those who do not like wine too dry.
Tüzkö Gewürztraminer – £6.99 – Another top class and top value wine from Hungary. Drier on the finish than one might expect with this grape.
The three rosés from Hungary, Germany and Duras in France are all between £5.49 and £5.99 and all really very good – especially at the price.
Red Wines
Brouilly Essence de Fruit – £6.99
Dornfelder – £4.99
Jekl Villányi Portugieser – £5.99
A trio of relatively light, juicy, fruit-driven reds, ideally served lightly chilled – ideal summer drinking.
Château Guyon la Roseraie – £5.99 – Better-than-decent quality everyday Bordeaux.
Bolyki Indiánnyár – £6.99 – I am biassed because I have visited this producer’s remarkable cellar built into a stone quarry. Loved him, loved his wines, even got quite excited about his quarry……
Gere Tamás Gránát Villány Cuvée – £6.99 – Fuller-bodied Hungarian red, good enough for the Sunday roast but would also work with the barbecue…..
Sparkling wines
Sparkling Tokaji – £6.99 – Highly unusual, sweet sparkling wine from Hungary’s top wine producing region. Complex and well worth a try.
Champagne Comte de Senneval – £6.99 – Half Bottles – As ever, worth stocking up on half bottles of Champagne while they are available…..
And finally a couple of sweet whites
Muscat de Rivesaltes – £8.99 – Made by one of the most likeable winemakers in the world. Drink chilled as an aperitif, as in France.
Tokaji Dereszla – £7.99 – 50cl – Beautiful sweet white, enjoy with dessert or simply on its own. An inexpensive indulgence…….
I must admit that I have had to omit many wines that I would wholeheartedly recommend – this is arguably the most exciting Wine Cellar that Lidl have put out. Just a reminder that, if you find the wines you are after are already out of stock when you visit, all stores would expect to receive fresh supplies of all the wines at least once.