Jono & Jules do food & wine

Marks & Spencer Meal Deal is just too cheap to resist. Being winos (and being lucky enough to have easy access to lots of good wines) we tend to gather a collection of these to drink at parties or late at night when people have drunk too much already (other people that is, not us of course).

Anyway, with the pasta dish below we thought a glass of something red with a bit of acidity to balance with the tomato would fit the bill… red with a bit of acidity usually means Italian and in fact when cooking dishes from anywhere in the world you can’t go far wrong with something the locals might drink themselves.

So we had the choice of opening something way too good for one glass with dinner on a Wednesday or the wine that came free with the meal deal. You lot may well have been supping on this yourselves or it might be lingering in your party selection.

So what was the verdict? It smells fruity, like dark cherries, with a bitter but not nasty twist. On the palate it is easy-going and fruity though there is a bit of drying sensation…maybe the tannins are a bit out of whack. It did improve when drunk with the pasta however and for €6 (I think that’s how much it cost when not in the deal) we couldn’t fault it really. We even had another glass on Thursday 😉 Julie