It’s perfectly understandable why Berry Bros & Rudd’s Good Ordinary Claret is their best selling wine. It’s delicious – and at £7.30 for an individual bottle, it’s a bargain! If I had the room, I’d be inclined to purchase a standby case for £78.84 (that’s only £6.57 per bottle). But alas, living in my urban abode means I’ll have to settle for only being able to stow away a couple of bottles of this red wine at any time. Actually, maybe that’s not such a bad thing, the more of this dry medium-full bodied Cabernet Sauvignon blend I’d have in my flat, the more apt I’d be to drink! And at 13% alcohol, such a lovely predicament wouldn’t add up to me being a very diligent boy at all.
I can’t think of any reason to pooh-pooh Berry Bros & Rudd’s Good Ordinary Claret. Neither can I imagine any of my wine drinking friends not loving it. Yep, I think I’ve found a winner in the category of last minute gift ideas as well as a reliable bottle of something to bring as a future dinner guest. A glass of Berry’s GOC certain goes down well on its own (as I sit here typing up my review) but I imagine it would accompany wonderfully a juicy steak or most game. I’m thinking some prosciutto with mozzarella di bufala would be an ideal treat to pair with this Bordeaux beauty too (or hmmmm maybe a brownie would go well with a glass of GOC?) – indeed GOC offers a fantastic and inexpensive introduction to discovering why such a fuss about Bordeaux reds exists.
Anyhoo, enough of my blathering! I really like the way the flavours of this impressively structured claret dissolve on my tongue, and I’m going to pour myself another glass … aaahhhh.
For product details and more, visit Berry Bros & Rudd online at http://www.bbr.com/ or stop by their shop at 3 St James’s Street, SW1A 1EG.
Avoid the Berrys Good Ordinary 2009 – it really is terrible!
Seems rather expensive compared with all the other GOC which are of excellent quality.
What are you getting for under seven quid that’s so much better? Keen to try it.