Which red wine?

[nicelyneurotic]

Can anyone recommend a nice red for under £10? Does this exist? The person I'm buying for likes red wine best. I've already got their main gift so this would be a little extra thing.

I don't really drink wine and am a bit clueless. I don't want to get something awful!

At the £10 level, I tend to think the most interesting and best value wines tend to come from Portugal.

If you have access to a branch of Aldi, see if you can get hold of a bottle of the Lot 20 Douro Grande Reserva which is £9.99. It is very dark, almost black, very well structured with hints of chocolate and black cherry typical of the Douro valley table wines, but much softer tannins than you would get from a comparable Bordeaux fine wine costing two or more times as much. It needs to be decanted a couple of hours before drinking to bring out its best.

Waitrose have one called Tinta da Anfora, normally £9.99 but down to £7.99 at the moment according to the website. This is a modern new world-style fruit bomb which will appeal to those who like Australian and South African reds, but want something a little more unusual.

If neither of these are practical, let us know what shops you can get to and we'll rethink.

Wow thanks so much for your reply. Both sound great so I'll check them both out. Thank you!!

Barolo