The Tim Adams Shiraz is a wine I had heard a lot about and all good things at that. This always makes me wary, is it going to be like Avatar? The biggest hyped up movie of all time that turns out to be this mess of images and plot that leaves me left to wonder whether or not I have just witnessed the death knell of art and culture.
Where am I going with this? Well, after so many let downs of late by hyped up wines I decided to take a chance and buy a wine I spotted in ... wait for it ... Tesco. Gasp! As mentioned above, I had heard some very good things about the entire Tim Adams range , almost too much.
I am a very sceptical person at the best of times, so I approached this wine with great trepidation. Shiraz is certainly one of my favourite grapes, but it is abused far too often in making truck loads of wine to fill supermarket shelves the world over.
Anyone in the trade will be all too familiar with the ins and outs with this Vin-Aire malark. Only thing is, does the thing work? And more importantly for all of us normal non-trade folk, what is it and what does it do. Well, after a quick chat with Andrew Nolan from Vin-aire Ireland and a "special package" in the mail we got down to tackling these all important questions.
So another Spanish lady in red being reviewed this week. Having been lucky enough to manage two seats at a "meet the winemaker" lunch in Dublin this week. Now we did managed to taste a few wines we don't intend buying again until we have real wages! Besides the point, the wine in question was a kind parting gift to all who attended the meal. Now, as it goes, freebies are never freebies, there's always some sort of catch. Here, in this case with a room full of 50-60 people you'd expected that the wine wouldn't be up to much. Rather the opposite actually! This wine was in fact something completely different altogether. A better kind of freebie, a show off freebie.