#265 Just say no

I recently panned Tesco's lower priced wines, so to make sure that I strike a balance, I should make you all aware that Tesco has some higher priced wines available online, from a company called Tim Adams.  And they aren't good either...

2008 Tim Adams Semillon
A honey and melon aroma that starts off quite nice, but then the palate is like muddy grass.  Pretty poor and not worth the tenner you are paying for a bottle. 6/10

2007 Tim Adams Shiraz
For eleven pounds you want a shiraz that has fresh, dark fruit, a lot of pepper and spice and some complexity.  This tastes of tablet!  A sweet, buttery, creamy wine, some jammy fruit, but it is mainly all about the fudge like aroma.  And the palate is the same!  A colleague said you almost got the gritty texture that you get from Scottish tablet, and he was right.  5/10

2006 Tim Adams 'The Fergus'
A blend of Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Malbec and Cabernet Franc.  And it smells of urinal cubes. 3/10

2006 Tim Adams Aberfeldy
Their high end shiraz, which basically tastes like the basic shiraz, just with slightly better quality fudge.  To be fair, it has a slight pepper element, and a little acid, but it is at most a £15 wine.  And it costs a tenner more than that.  Pass.  5/10

If you want to buy these wines, you can get them at Tesco

p.s. I have just done a bit of research on these, and apparently Oz Clarke rates the 2007 Shiraz as one of his 250 best wines of 2011 in his new book.  Also, James Halliday says that the 2008 Semillon is a 94pt wine.  So don't just take my word for this!