4/30/2023 0 Comments Naked wines reviewsMauricio Lorca Lirico Malbec 2011 14.5% Full price £11.99 Angel’s price £8.49Ī touch on the soft side for me but if you’re an Argie Malbec fan you’ll love it. £8.99 is a good price for it but bear in mind that another online retailer the Fine Wine Company sells it for not a lot more for £54.89 a case of six or £9.19 a bottle. If you like Cabernet Franc you’ll love this deliciously fragrant example from ebulliient South African wine maker Bruno Raats. Raats Dolomite Cabernet Franc 2011 Full price £11.99, Angel’s price £8.99 (Look out too for winemaker Mike Paterson’s Pinot Noir which is coming through in August - see below) Lay of the Land Destination Sauvignon Blanc 2012 Full price £13.49, Angel’s price £9.49ĭefinitely a cut above your average Kiwi Sauv Blanc with some lush ripe tropical fruit offsetting the usual gooseberry-and-asparagus character. Better than the same producer’s Sancerre. The 'angel's' price is roughly what supermarkets are charging for own label Pouilly Fumé right now so this is a very good deal for an intense wine with a crisp mineral character and lovely wisp of smoke. Villebois Pouilly Fumé 2012 Full price £17.99 Angel’s price £12.99 Villebois Prestige Sauvignon Blanc 2012 (12.5%) Full price Angel’s price £8.99Ī rich lush sauvignon made from old vines in the Touraine region of the Loire - so effectively a Sauvignon de Touraine, albeit a good one. This is a gorgeous gutsy Merlot-Cabernet blend with a dash of Carignan from an American-run winery in the Cabardes region, north of Carcassonne Here are seven I’d recommend - and three to look out for in the coming months:ĭomaine O Vineyards Trah-la- lah (14%) Full price £12.99, Angel’s price £8.99 They also have some good wines though I wouldn’t generally pay more than the 'angel’s' price for them. Post anything mildly critical of them, as I did in the Guardian a year or so ago, and 'angels' will pile in to defend them. And the almost cult-like following the company has fostered. Their customers seem to like them too, witness the 400 plus people who turned out to the tasting I attended in Bristol on Monday night ( above), part of a week-long road show. Other winemakers, a number of whom were working for other wineries but wanted to do their own thing, will tell you that but for Naked Wines they wouldn’t have been able to set up their own business. She obviously has nothing but praise for them. When they heard about the incident Naked Wines created a ‘rescue case’ of Languedoc wines which Katie selected from other producers she admired which sold at the rate of a case every 2 seconds when it came out in May. All credit to them for helping a friend of mine, Katie Jones ( right), who lost her much admired 2012 white wine when vandals broke into her winery in the south of France and opened the tanks. That said, they do genuinely help to get winemaking projects off the ground and create a market for the wines that they make. It’s all just a bit too slick and high-pressured for me. Hmmmm.Įven though you can apparently get your money back at any time, the chances are that if you’ve got £80 of contributions sitting in their account you’re going to spend it with them. “Would you prefer to pay more or get more?” Click the obvious answer and bang - you’re suddenly an angel, committing yourself to £20 a month and strongly advised to buy the Naked Customers Favourites Case,costing £112.88 which ‘saves’ you £82.99. “Would you prefer your wine made by salesmen or talented winemakers?”. I also don’t like the heavily loaded rhetoric on the site. And you can certainly find wines of comparable quality a lot cheaper than the full price that Naked Wines charges for them, hence presumably their ability to give away so many ‘free’ vouchers for £40 and £60 to encourage people to start buying from them. In instances where other retailers stock the same wines you can buy them on the open market at a similar price without having to put down your money first. They say their angel prices are ‘wholesale’ and 25% to 50% less than retail but that’s quite misleading. The catch is that those prices are not quite as favourable as Naked Wines claims though it’s hard to compare as most of the wines they stock are made specially for them by the winemakers they subsidise. (A bit like crowdsourcing projects such as Kickstarter.) In return 'angels' get to buy wines (using the money they’ve invested) at preferential prices. These are regular subscribers who pay £20 a month into the business which enables them to fund winemaking projects. The company claims to have over 200,000 customers who buy from it regularly, 125,000 of which are ‘angels’. Naked Wines has been controversial since it launched 4 1/2 years ago but there’s no denying its popularity. Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on Jat 12:21
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