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   Vernon Taylor on July 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM

   Wine talk is a foreign language to me. I take a glass of wine a few times every month as it makes a nice change from tea and coffee. I have drunk enough wine to know what I like and what I like is cheap. I am not the sort of guy who would spend more on a bottle of wine than a bottle of whisky even if I could afford to. Opting for cheap has taught me two things – firstly what terrible wine tastes like and secondly, when I find one I like to stick with it until it changes, which it invariably does and the search begins again…

   That was the story until a few years ago when I discovered Three Mills Reserve Red that according to the label is blended to appeal to the British palate. At less than four quid a bottle it probably isn’t the best wine but it is far from the worst and most importantly it is consistently (so far) very quaffable and for me that represents good value.

   While there is nothing wrong with my tastebuds, I haven’t smelled much since using a nasal spray nearly 40 years ago. Three Mills could smell like old socks for all I know but it tastes ok. It is soft on the tongue without much acid and slides down the throat a treat. I hate cold drinks except during a heatwave so I usually slightly warm red wine and find that makes it taste even better. This oddball behaviour could be because I grew up at a time when in winter the old fellows would plunge a red hot poker into their pints of mild ale and nothing in a pub was cooler than cellar temperature and most were a good deal warmer.

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