Help me pick some wine

[Hoorayhenryyah]

Calling all wine lovers!
I need to buy a bottle of wine as a gift for someone but I am not a wine drinker so I am clueless. Can folks suggest a nice and relatively in-expensive white or red wine please?

Don't buy white wine in the uk unless you have ££ to spend. It's dreadful stuff especially produced for export.
Whith red, you can never go wrong with a chianti ... but again they are pricy!

@Blueuggboots is onto something!

Both the red and white 19 Crimes are bloody lovely!

The last time I had a 19 crimes wine, it gave me rotten guts.

And I hate fizz. I've had a bottle of prosecco sitting untouched for a year.

I'm a big fan of coop Pure Trapiche Malbec - Malbec us often a safe bet at that price, anyhow. Sainsburys taste the difference wines are often good, too.

M&S wine in the £8-10 range tends to be decent.

It totally depends on their taste - as a PP has said fizz is a good choice for Christmas.

I hate people buying me wine. It's always wrong. I like white but only Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc. Hate hate hate Chardonnay. Can't stomach red as it gives me an awful headache. Rose is nice but only if it's a dry rose like a Pinot blush.

I used to like barefoot Malbec before I switched to flavoured gins and and vodkas. But the best way to pick a wine is probably for you to try some in a pub. You will hate them accurately being unbiased

I like Jam Shed for red. Only about £7

Jam Shed do a Malbec and a Shiraz - the Shiraz is very rich and plummy, almost like a port.

Albarino from aldi is my favourite white wine, 6.99. Lidl also do a good chablis, or chianti classic for red.

Oh 19 crimes is awful (IMO). Good story about the name but for ne, it ends there.

Thank you so much for all the suggestions! I went with the idea of a bottle of fizz, thought it a safer bet plus most folk like a glass of bubbles at Xmas. Hopefully this thread helps anyone else who’s looking to buy wine but is clueless like me 😆

@DeloriesGinBitch

I’m sorry *viques*

No problem! Have one on me