Tesco wine clearance: my top Australian & Portuguese tips

I’m just back from holidays which is usually a budget-trimming time.  Not this time –  my neighbour inadvertently lead me astray by asking for a recommendation for sub-£6 wines.  This in turn lead me to Tesco’s website and bin end wine clearance….  Jim Barry Lodge Hill Riesling at just over £6/bottle was way too good to resist, as was also heavily discounted Peter Lehmann Wigan Riesling and Henriques & Henriques 20 Year Old Madeira.  All wines which will age beautifully, just like my last bottle of 2006 Alkoomi Riesling which I enjoyed on holiday – another bin end buy some year’s back from Jeroboams.  

Teco’s bin end wine clearance sale runs to the end of this month.  Below are my top tips for Australia & Portugal with links (red type) to my notes where I’ve previously reviewed them.

Peter Lehmann Wigan Riesling 2007 (Eden Valley)

45% off – down from £96.00/case to £52.26/case (equivalent to £8.71 per bottle) – this is Peter Lehmann’s top Riesling – always released after at least five years so built to age (it was formerly known as the Reserve Riesling).

Jim Barry Lodge Hill Riesling 2011 (Clare Valley)

44% off – down from £66.00/case to £36.42/case (equivalent to £6.07 per bottle).  I haven’t reviewed this vintage online but click here to see how well this wine ages and, in 2011 – a super-cool year – it should age very well indeed.

Pikes Clare Valley Riesling 2010 (Clare Valley)

43% off – down from £81.00/case to £46.02/case (equivalent to £7.67 per bottle)

Chapel Hill Grenache 2010 (McLaren Vale)

42% off – down from £107.94/6 bottles to £61.86/case (equivalent to £10.31 per bottle)

Henriques & Henriques 20 Year Old Malmsey NV (Madeira)

64% off – down from £300.00/case to £107.94/case (equivalent to £17.99 per bottle).  (Though the 20 Year Old Terrantez is mentioned in the clearance stocks have already gone – I’ll happily console myself with the Malmsey)!