High Street Wine Challenge: Pecorino and Melnik

It's been a few weeks since my last post, so I thought that was the best excuse to buy two bottles to taste tonight. Yay it's Friday!


Pecorino Terre di Chieti (Waitrose £7.99)

Yes Pecorino is an Italian cheese, but it is also an Italian grape variety which nearly died out but is now facing a bit of a renaissance. This is the perfect white wine for Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio drinkers as it is dry and refreshing. This version is soft and ripe on the nose, full of peaches and floral notes, but then when you taste it you get lots of green apple and citrus fruit, fresh & spritzy with lovely minerality. This would be delicious as an aperitif or with an antipasti platter. 


Sant Ilia Cabernet Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc/Melnik (Waitose £8.99)

Back in the 1980s, Bulgarian wines were hugely popular in the UK for being super cheap and easy to drink. Since then the quality has come on leaps and bounds this blend tasted delicious with our sausage & leek traybake supper. On the nose there's a strong caramel aroma, and then the taste is full of ripe, sweet blueberry and blackberry fruit, with a hint of vanilla and anise spice at the end. Very soft and easy drinking, I would never have guessed there was Cabernet in there! 


Happy Swigging!