A consistently excellent quaff from Tesco over the years – the bottle price now of £5.75 has hardly changed from its 2022 price of £5. One way the price is kept low is the addition of sugar to the grape juice while fermenting – all perfectly legal within the French wine laws. The addition of sugar is displayed on the back label under an ingredients listing – something that only Co-op wine bottles used to carry, and now Tesco wines shows ingredients too. Openness into what actually goes into your wine is a good thing, and in this instance there is nothing scary but just some sugar to cheapen and bulk up the batch a bit – and the wine still gets a 4-star rating. Flavours of plums, cherries and damp wood. A good value red.
