Another post about a wine to go with the weekday bowl of homemade soup. A discounted wine which was no doubt overpriced to begin with. It is currently available at £4.99 having been originally sold for nearly £10. It is great value at around a fiver.
I would not normally go for this sort of wine, bottled as it is near Lyon, miles from where it was produced - and who knows where it was produced, as it is a generic Côtes du Rhône Villages with no geographical information provided. But something about it tempted me, perhaps because it was 2010 and I had yet to taste any CDR from this vintage.
At 13.5% ABV, tasting of red fruit with good acidity and some discreet tannin, this wine is perfect with food. It is a good example of what the Rhône Valley does well, a well made, inexpensive wine for drinking with food. It bodes well for any Rhône wine of 2010 as it seems well balanced, with no rough edges to spoil the enjoyment.
Les Celliers de Beauregard bottles wines for Intermarché, the French supermarket group. As they appear to be based in the Vaucluse département, they are well placed to find Côtes du Rhône wines and have done well here.
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