ASDA Organics La Mancha Blanco 2006 Review

We like:

The freshness; the organic certification

We don't like:

The dubious reasons for the low price

SmartPlanet judgement:

We know we can't expect too much of a cheap product and let's face it, four squid for a wine is not a lot. Especially considering it's made from organic grapes. Taste-wise, we would buy this wine for kirs and the likes, but learning about ASDA's unethical ways of achieving low prices made us considerably less thirsty for this drink.

The procedure of tasting this organic wine from ASDA started out pretty well. Our wine expert, Chris Stroud, looked at it and told us in a positive tone that it had a nice lemony colour and looked like it had had a bit of oak influence. Then he smelled and tasted it and his tone changed a little. In Stroud's words: "It smells like it's on its way to oxidation and I'm not getting much acidity. It's very dry, fairly bland and has a short finish." He described the tasting notes as "citrussy with a hint of pineapple". Continue reading...