Addressing Wine Acidity and Closing

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You could say that again. Critics are calling it Pixar's funniest movie ever, and a wildly entertaining ride. Blizzard, the potato, it's certified fresh and verified hot. Now we party. This is incredible . Wow. I am clear in the rest of the day. Disney and Pixar's hoppers are now available on Disney plus. PG. He's here. The taser You're telling me I can't drink red wine properly. Challenge accepted Tampons to tennady. This is National Women's Day. Is it? No. Oh , if I could just see , I want to hear that I want to hear the sound of the berries. Berries call me niche. You love it, yeah. You want another glass? Hello and welcome to Bottoms up with Alan Carr and Lee Pitts. Yeah, we're the podcast that never likes to leave things bottled up. So grab yourself a glass, pour a large one and get settled right in with us. And that is what we're doing with our welcome drink. Cheers, bottoms up, bottoms up. This is the prime eridian . Oh , is that nice? Gin, yes, lovely. Elder flower . A bit of lemon. All right, and soda to top it up. You can actually garnish with a nice bit of cucumber as well, but we've gone for a line there. But why did I choose that? I hear you ask why? Why? Because the prime meridian I'm going to feel a bit smart saying this is what they call the longitude line . I'm already struggling longitude line of the north zero degrees longitude , which goes straight through Greenwich. Show me more . No, I like to leave your family on that That's where it is. The observatory's there. Exactly. We were there last weekend. We were there . And we were on a boat because this was very nautical Exactly that we like to have a little tenuous link with our welcome drink. But yeah, we went to Greenwich. We went on a boat. The reason we went on a boat, well we went on the Thames Clipper. It was on Cliffer, yeah, we weren't the cutty sarc or the Mary Rose And it was marathon day, wasn't it? Have you ever watched the marathon? I find it boring why? Well, just people running. What's the point? I like the ones who are like animals, you know, someone 's dressed as a rhino or what about the man in the diver's outfit and he was still going like four months later? Oh, I never saw that. It was like his old fashioned diving. He was still going four months later. There was a man running with a fridge on his back like a fridge and I was thought why there must be a reason because that's my fear getting overtaken by someone who is like , you know, carrying another person or something or they're like you do need to put more practice in if are you a good runner? No, I'm not because of my mince's hip. Oh, well, you know what, I've got the minute not to make it about me. You want to hear about my mincer's hip ? I've got plantar fasciitis. Excuse me . Well, just plant ? Plantar fasciitis? What does that mean? It's like when you heal this is only really your height veta's pit top. Why am I now making jokes about my own height by the way? I'm just gonna hold this upon you. I've started believing your hate . And I just say I love your button game. It's gone up again. You had Mother a Pearl a few weeks back. I know and now I've got for anyone listening I've got gold love hearts on my buttons. Is that a special shop you get that from? What do you mean? What I'm like booti? I'm gonna say booti. It's, do you know what it is? Or an elderly shop? It's un isex . Can you tell That's unisex. Yeah, this is unisex. So what do you identify today as? A drunk . Unisex. Yeah, it's called Sister Jane . And then that's the fashion police . He's here. Get the taser . Yes, Sister Jade. Lady Jay. Because I like I'm writing to explain. Is that is that like a body? Does it have poppers at the bottom or is it just a show? No, no way there 's a love art, right? I'm a gooch Anyway, back to the story. We're in Greenwich. Marathon day. I know why it was marathon day because I'd add a bit of cansum off on my journey ' itcause's journey. You could be doing your own marathon. I know my liver was . And then a load of people going to the marathon came on and I was quite drunkly holding up all the signs on the clipper. Go on, Tresh, you can do it faster, run forest run Who were you holding? Oh, were they taking photos? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they just wanted to do it. Oh, nice. Yeah, because you went a different route. You took the boat the whole way. I met you there . And I didn't meet you with David and as I got off the boat, I was like, I think they might have had a couple of drinks. You were very excitable. But it was a good day sunny. Why were we excited? Because we were going to see Liberacci and Liza. Yeah, Greenwich Theatre, which were absolutely amazing. Did you see Marissa Tomo was in the audience as well? No. Yes . No. Where? Did you see her? That she met him after us. We met them backstage. They were so good. And they go to Edinburgh. So for anyone who doesn't know there's this the double act called Liza and Liber chi and she 're both brilliant. He's amazing on the piano. Yeah. They're American, aren't they? And she is so funny as lies at me. And you know what I loved about it ? It wasn't like it wasn't like a Mickey take , but with love . That's the best way to do parody . Yes. Like it was n't a hatchet job. No, it came from a really good place and it made it so lovable. And she didn't just, she wasn't just Liza. She inhabited Liza. I was crying with Liza and going to Edinburgh. I kind of want to go to Edinburgh. I'm starting to get the itch. I've always said no to Edinburgh, but every like we had Graham Norton talking about it a couple of weeks back, didn't we? And yeah, I want to do it. It's a real vibe. Yeah. It's funny though because when you start off the people that come , 'cause you don't think anyone knows who you are, but I remember the first time I had a big celebrity, Peter K came to see me in a sixty seater . And you're like, how do you even know I exist? Yeah What did you meet him after it? Yeah, and then he came back to the house and we had a cup of tea and stuff like that. It was so lovely to have someone of his stature come and see me. Go out and then we had Miranda Hart in there and just really random so it was great. Peter K actually heckled me at a gig once and I was heckled by Peter K . Yeah, one of my early days is genuinely. What did you say? I said, Well, it wasn't like heckled as in like your shit, get off , I hope. It was he was I was talking and I think I was talking about being from Grimsby and he said and I said something like Up the Mariners and he went, Oh yeah, or something like that. And he shouted out and everyone laughed because it was Peter and I said something like, I've been up a few Mariners or something like that . And it wasn't my finest work . And then Peter left No he didn't, he didn't. It was very lovely though because it was a solve because he went to Salvard Uni, which is where I went. But what I love about him is he does support Axe as well as well. You know, so he doesn't pull the ladder up when you're when you're famous. He goes back, you know, and that's the thing with Edinburgh. You will be in Edinburgh and you will see like the most random people. Well, this is what I think with Liza and Liberacy because also I am laughing because a couple of weeks ago me and Alan had a chat where we were like , you know, we do we can't keep talking about gay things. Welcome chap. Lizar and Liverpatch What's wrong with this? Watching that show I went, That's two people who have a vision that they just did it and they absolutely executed. And there's something life at the minute, where I think we just need something fun, something like something fruffy. They didn't try to give us a message . They didn't try to go, this is how you should feel. It was just a fun, pure entertainment. It's complete joy. Although I have to hear that woman in the break who came out to drink, Oh, aren't you grey in real life Grey. Grey was gray. Was it gay? No, I was gray. She said great. Right. No, she said gray That would be the moth What kind of job do these people have they think they can just say that to people. I know you're fat . Well , it's almost like sitting opposite you when you're having a go at me on the podcast . No, it was it was such a good day and they're on tour, aren't they? So Ed, if they honestly recommend it to everyone, Lizar and Liberati, search them the best. Listen, speaking of celebs, didn't someone an A listener like your post on Instagram? Because you've had Sharon Stone hmm. Who else have you had? Jaylo? Jaylo. Jaylo likes much, Sarah, Jessica Parker. No one likes me. What do you mean? Pull these funny posts up that just get Jill from Barnesley . I'm on Jaylo. Rather than Jay Barn, don't you know where are you getting ALIS? Well this week I got Jessie Nelson, little mixer. Oh , she got same birthday as me. Oh, has she? And Shay Gavara. And Donald Trump . The ultimate trio . And Leon, the restaurant , their They also So I'm really doing well. Leon. Leon, I did a post because you know what happened to me? I swear to Right. So is that true? It's true. I'm in London Bridge, okay? Train station . it And's early. I'm going to show in Brighton. Not the soap from the nineties . Now, I will say this. I hate , hate London Bridge Station. Why'?s It one of the worst . It's so vast. You can't get a signal in there. There's just stupid shops everywhere. Hate it. All right. I think train stations just have shops. Just have bookshops and just have what kind of shop what kind of accessories? On a bonus. Who needs an accessories in a train station? , no, you're going to say, Claire's that Clare. Where are you gonna get your jewelry from now? Is this an homage to Claire? Yes . This is what I'm wearing to the funeral. Or Claire, do we even know who Claire is? No, I think she must be dead by now, surely. It's been going a long time . Why would I call this? Why was Claire did ? Claire Gone not forgotten whatever. No, I'm in Leon. I'm waiting for a samina, Leon. , I fell right into the inside clear . So I'm in Leonka and woman a salmon and cream cheese bagel and now you know when you're in front of someone. I knew I'd seen her arrive while I was waiting, snatches it. It's no way. I said, Oh, I'm really sorry. I said, I think that's mine. I've been waiting for it. I've got a train to catch. I went to In London Bridge train station of all the places. So of the next. I was really riled up and I did a post about it because that's what you do these days. Just share everything. Leon got in touch. They've invited me to an event. I'm going to a friend s of Leon event. With surplus one? No . Thanks, I'll ask. Imagine if I rang up. Hi, Leon. Alan Carr would like to come to your event. For a free sandwich. Yeah, well, do anything for a free sample . I'll let them know, but yeah, I have funeral you can be Mark plus one. Leonard are doing the catering . JLO. Yeah, JLO Jessie Nuts. So yeah, it's going good. You must have had famous people like your posts. You just don't check. You're not really a checker. No no . Who's the most random person you've had liked anything? Well, I do think Jaylo is quite random. That is random. She's sitting in like Hollywood and she goes liking my post. Yeah. Well, she's in Vegas, and she's doing that thing . Because she's just Jenny from the block, isn't she? She's just Jenny from the block. Stormal. Jenny . Don't be fooled by the rockside she's, got they're from Claire's Come . I wonder why no music videos are ears were green. You must have been to Vegas. I love Vegas . What? Is it always hot? It's in the middle of the desert, isn't it? Yeah, always hot. And then but really, really hot. And then I went to see Adele there, Celine Deon, Bet Midler. I'm homosexual by the way . And then Serka Celai. Bet Midler I know, I know, . My friend's mum, I'll never forget. She sat in the car once and she goes, Oh my God, I love Bet Midler. I love her. She's one of my favorites. I'm a super fan. What's that song of hers I love? It's the wind beneath my feet . How and super fun you say . Well, I think she was having a bit of a rough time because she called it she called it Caesar's palace 'cause everyone's so old. I love her. And then she laid on the floor and said, Why am I still doing this shit? She knows must go on looking at her contract early exit clause. Yes. Oh, talking of which , I'm I'm having moving hell . I'm having moving hell. For anyone watching, if I look haggard right now, I've had no sleep . I've had no sleep. The walls in my new place are so thin and all I can hear is banging, hoovering. How's the baby baby? How's the baby? Still crying? Still crying , still crying. That baby needs a rusk or something. Well, no, I found out there's three. So if one's three babies. If one's not crying, the other two are, it's a lot. Triplets, triplets. Did you even check before you moved into this? Where have you moved into like the early learning cent re? Genuinely, it's so god no anyway and I'm navigating. I might have to move again I can't do this. I ring you up like hearing Yeah, yeah, it's awful . Do you ever have you ever had or are you the nightmare? I hate no I'm the nightmare neighbor. Are you? But I had a homophobic neighbor back in the day. Same way. And they called me Bender . Why? And I was sunbathing in the garden I could say Bender like that. And I'm not saying I was hallucinated, but I did look at the gnome Why do you call me ? Soley, what's coming up? Well, we have a wine expert, Manny the wine expert, making his debut on this podcast. Can't wait to meet him , but we've got a dilemma next, which we're gonna solve. We haven't done one for a while, so it's time for a drink dilemma . Nice . We really should sort those jingles now, that is a bit crap. Bottoms up Every week we are inundated with your questions and dilemmas. Some are sensible, some are slightly unhinged and although we're not experts we'll have a blooming good try doing our research. Lee, what's the dilemma this week? Ella has got in touch. Hi Ella. Hi bottoms up. She says, What are your thoughts on soda water slash lemonade in wine ? Okay . I love a rose but get drunk very easily . So I can't drink wine on a night out. Is it a crime to ask for soda or lemonade in it? Am I being offensive to the wine world? Love from Ella who loves the taste of wine but hates being drunk. So have got three drinks here. Now Ella's choice of rose is apparently this one that we are currently looking at. Now I'm going to try not judge because last week we had Alicia Hansalon who told us not to judge by the color of the rose. I would never go for a wine that's the shade of a nosebleed . So before I know. Call me old fashioned. Yeah, yeah. It's got his nuances . So let's have a just a sip of this rose first of all . Oh god, it's Okay , oh I'm getting dustin . So this is her road. Ella , Ella. Ella, Ella, Ella. Ella, Ella under your Barella sit down, Ella. This is a I need to speak to you about your choices in life. Okay, this is not the rose that you need, Ella. Surely there are other options gross . No it is, but maybe having a bit of lemonade in it will help . Shall we? Well this is Ella's drink. So she goes straight up rose and lemonade. This is what Ella is drinking on a night out. It's basically a wine shandy. Can we help wine shanding? Can we help her with some tasty alternatives that aren't loaded with alcohol so she doesn't end up steaming drunk? I mean, the good thing about this is wouldn't get drunk on this, well I wouldn't, because I wouldn't drink it , yeah, yeah. Yes, it's made it better . It has made it better , but it's not the nicest and it tastes a little bit like tastes a bit like flat pop doesn't taste like pop tieser. Yeah, it tastes like tieser. Yeah, I'd rather but I'd rather have a tieser. So what are we giving taste tests on that? It's out of ten , one . Yeah. It's not nice. It's nice. All right, well let's move. Lilet one From shade of red to the next . Why would you call a red wine lilette? I think it's Lillet , Lilay, is it? That is a tampon and lilette. That one isn't, but yes, it is a brand . What a large fan you'ven goty Maddie. I know that's not a tempo . I know it's been a long time, but I'm not stupid . What's been a long time ? A long time since then I'd inserted a temple . Okay , so actually I don't know why I'm grabbing this because I don't need to do this. It's already been made but lovingly by the people at the broadcast caster . So we're going to move on to a classic L ille Rose Spritz. A Lille Rose Spritz is a refreshing and it's low alcohol French apparetive cocktail . You've got lie, you've got tonic water and a grapefruit garnish . So let's have a taste of this, cheers, bottoms up . Again, it's low alcohol for oh that's lovely. That's not bad. That's really nice. And you know, that's ooh for her on a night out. And as well, Ella , that feels naughty and also it feels chic, doesn't it? You got it in the glass, you've got your grapefruit garnish and, you know , but again it's not going to get you too drunk. On the nose, soft red berries, pink grapefruit and orange blossom with a floral lift. So if you like it a little bit more elegant than sugary, Ella, this is what I think she needs to evolve to. Yeah . She needs to get this out of her life. In fact, I just don't want it anywhere near me. All right. So he says there's a little bit closer to me quite dramatic It's posh grown up rose lemonade that still behaves itself until you've had quite a few, all right? No, I like that. yeah, could you drink a lot of them though? That's great. Yeah, it's quite nice. Yeah, I love it. All right . Only you have that nine out of ten. Nine. Yeah . Wow, got that. I think she hates being drunk because she's having that in a I think that's the wine's the problem. You can have a nice wine . I think she's going for that. Well, it depends whether she hates being drunk because she hates the hangovers, but it sounds like Ella hates the lack of control. She doesn't like to let go . All right, so maybe it's that. Why are you laughing at? Why do we downset together? I mean she's just written in a dilemma in, well that is not psychiatry. No one You need to let go, Ella . Show me on this Lillette what the nasty man did not get You're right, Ella , if you're not as keen on florally , okay, we can move on to Asenji Man Spritz. Now I think you're going to love this. It's funny that you've gone for nine because I think you might prefer this more. I made a mistake. No, don't worry it's not life or death. So thanks . So this is I want to backtrack. This is love flavor. Yes, so you've got a Cengerman, which is an elder flower refreshing . I like myself into a corner This has to be ten. It's a low ABV wine based cocktail by combining cent imeters which we had in the welcome drink. That's a liqueur. You've got prosecco, sparkling water in a wine glass and you fill it without it. It's a bit like a hug spritz I think as well. That's what often they'll call it. You stir gently with a garnish with a lemon twist, a simple three ingredi ent drink is popular modern peritif. Known for its light, crisp flavor profile. What you get in there on the nose? Mayow . Fragrant elder flower . Oh, it's lovely, isn't it? Yeah. And you sure this is alcoholic? Yes, it is. I'm gonna give this ten . Yes. And the sweetness , if you like, if you don't like elderflower, Ella , Ella Deflower then I won't go for it, but I what I would say is I would you could intertwine between the two. You start with a little kind of if people are on the cocktails I would go for the lie , but if not, if you just want a consistent drink that you're enjoying, go for the elderflower spritz. So get rid of this. You're done. See you later. We found you a new one. What are you going to go for then ? Elder flower? I'm going for this. Yeah, I'm the elder flower for this. But like I said, if you want to judge it up a bit and you feel like you're having a cocktail, if all you make start getting like margaritas or a negroni or anything like that, then get yourself a little delay . Wonderful. Cheers Ella. Good luck with letting go . Yeah , bottom sold . Our next guest is a man after our own heart. He believes that wine should be accessible for everyone and less intimidating. Well, he cut his teeth at majestic wine and then went out on his own and guess where he is now on bottoms up . It's Mnany. How you doing? Thank you very much, man. Lovely. Now listen, can I ask you ? What do you feel about Claire's accessory shutting down? No way. Where are you going to get your clip ons for that ? Oh no, you know what I mean? Like I've been a long time since I've pissed my ears, so like I don't need my ear piercing so I'm real good there. Well, it's so have my nipples done and a chain and a corkscrew , right? So Manny, welcome. Thank you so much for coming along. I will say you've already you're already winning. I'm winning. Because I've noticed you brought Malbeck somewhere . But tell us before we get into that because you know we love it Malbeck. Tell us how you got into your wine world the world of wine what happened. So yeah, so my journey started I used to be a train driedver. Now this story isn't I used to have a couple of bottles of read they get in that cabbage . Ready to go . You can't say that . No, I mean, I'm trying to stop you from saying it . It'll ever happen yeah, I used to be a train driver and I came out of the company and I needed a job for the time being. So I saw majestic and I thought, okay, I didn't know much about wine, but let me try it. Let me see what 's going on. I wanted to stay there for about three months, ended up there for about three years. What I love about you is you do champion like almost curveballs. Like I've seen you go to Albania and stuff like that stuff, the Albanian wine , really? But you do rave about it. Yeah, and they've got some great stuff over there. They've got their own great varieties like white shish and black shish, but then they also do grow stuff like Melbeck, Tompinio , Cabane Samy, greatong st uff. If I was going to come into majestic, right ? What would your what gets not gets you off, but what like what as an what as an advisor do you , do you want to find the customer exactly what they want? Or do you have a bit of an objective? Do you get like a little bit of a buzz if someone's come in looking for something and actually you've then stirred them in a bit of a different direction. Like what's your aim as an advisor at Majestic? My aim is to push you what I like. I ain't gonna lie that's really so I know that if I like a centau of wine, there's proper qualities in that wine that I feel like you probably like just getting to know you by talking to you. Yeah . So you might say you want maybe a cabinet savignon. I was like, okay, cool, let's try this cabinet savignon. And then I'll look at the country it's from and then I might just ask, okay, well , maybe the Melbourick or maybe the Carmen here like try that. And then you kind of steer people into directions that they never thought about before. And do you enjoy the fact that if they walk out with a bottle that they would never have got? You're like, okay, I've done I've done good. And then they'll go tell their friends about it. And like, yeah, that guy knows his thing. And then it's like, yeah, cool. And do you love Malbex then? Yes. Is that your street? Yes, there's no debate. No, no , what about the aches? Don't you get a headache? I'm just a second. You don't get a headache. Don't get headaches. I get a headache every time. Not professional, man, not professional now. How dare you get out . How dare you ? You're telling me I can't drink red wine probably to day. Alright, then okay, they're love. All right, so what we've got today, what are you doing with us today? I've had some of these before, Catina. Well, tell me the story about Catine. Is it Catina? It's Catina. But as a tannel lady? Yeah, like that. Pun's tattoo lady. It must have been hanging around. National Women's Day. Is it? No . Next week we talk about the menopause . All right, so we've got Malbex. So you got three different Malbex? Oh yeah, so what can Katena tell us about that? Are they all catanas? Yeah, so all we've got three katanas today . So three different levels of catena. Can I just ask though what is Katena ? Well, so Katena is the name of the family the name of the family die in Argentina , originally Italians? Because that's the trouble I'm getting now because either sometimes the wine is called the Grape, the region or now the family . Yeah. So it can be either , but this one is definitely their family name. So it's the name of the company, it's the name of the family. And they've been there like three four generations now, so they're really deep into the wine world. And is it true Pit Bull? That's from the rapper Pitbull. Does he make that wine? Does that mean ? It's a pit bull . Oh, sorry . He said Pickle the rapper. I don't know if he gold or he had wine that everyone's got a bloody wine pickle that we're on next week. Pickle . So yeah , so they're originally Italians, they've moved over to Argentina like many, many years ago, and they took they had Melbeck with them because they originally starts off in France. So Melbeck was born in France. What was it? Yeah. Cohorse? So that's I've been there and that's the grape is black, isn't it? There? It's such a deep dark red. It tastes different so you have more of a tannin's kind of customer. So what's the difference then between the grapes over and France and then over in Mendoza? So France and what the old world Mendoza's new world happening it the other week. We spoke about this before, yeah. But the trouble is when we're drinking, we often forget . So that's why we 're being swimming. We do need to watch . This is why we've done it. We want it documented so we can watch back. And actually we've got an exclusive. We're doing an accompanying podcast for this one because we're so picked . And it's called Heads Down . Yeah, that's going to be the Patreon . Yeah , it's Heads Down because we're so embarrassed. We've learned Jack Shaw they're in barras. Okay Barrows . All right, so come on, let's let's learn something. We're not going to have a heads down for this one. We want to and learn a little something today. All right, cool. So we've got three different levels. So you've got more entry level . So you got your mid range, and then you've got your PS the resistance your big boy. Yeah. If we go back into looking into reasons why wine is so expensive and why it's cheaper , then we'll look at stuff like the producer, we'll look at the area that it's grown in. We'll look at if it's old world New World, if it's a single vineyard, if it's loads of different vineyards that made one wine , if it's hand picked or machine harvested it's a surprise link to how much effort they put into the wine. It's a lot a lot. Yeah . Yeah, lot. So with that with that as well, it's like you can tell why it's starting to the price starts to creep up a bit more. Yeah, they put a lot of effort into it, a lot of thoughts gone into it. More quality, more class sometimes the more they exp ensive ones and sometimes even you can get a cheaper one that's still quite good depending on like who is it that made it. So when you pointed here you said entry level mid range. So what prices are we looking at here? So we've got under twenty pound s. Right? We've got over twenty pound and we've got over fifty . How much? Over fifty pound, mate . Okay, so we are going high end here. Gone, I'm excited. Yeah, and you get this majestic wi.res You can get some majestic wines. five finger discard when it did , can you get me that one up there? I'll distract them while you run it. Quick, Manny, there's boxes to move . Or if kn youocked bl someack bottles off the shelves Spinach and I've formed . Okay, even though I said it's over fifty pounds, I just tried to be a bit more modest. It's based around eighty pounds for the bowl. I don't want to hangover if I drink that eighty pounds. You get a better hangover if it's a bit more . Finally , the quality tends to be means that you have a less of a hangover. I find if you have like a cheaper bottle of wine, you're more likely going to have a hanger due to the first put the sugar in there . Ella needs to know that. I've got the free wines. I'm going to disguise them in these bags here. Oh these are the bags. Oh yeah . So if you look away, you put them in the bag. I'll put them in the bags and then we're going to figure out which wines are which . For those of you listening on the podcast , we've covered our eyes with the cards we have indeed and we're very excited . This is my kind of taste test because I love Mulbeck. Yeah. Don't worry about the baggers Lee drinks Malbeck out of a carrier bag A blackberg If that's the case, then don't bother pouring it into a glass manny because he drinks it out the bottom. Oh if I could just I can't see I knew where you were kidding are you shaking your hand? Where are you? That's my card. The thing is Manny. I'm liking that you do like a Malbeck because we've had a few people on here saying that sometimes Malbeck is just like the easy option to go for and sometimes they're saying it's a bit of a not rip off, but it'll always be a bit more pricey because they're not shit your eyes make a shake How long is this be that Maybe look stupid. I've actually been looking at you guys for the last two minutes. But yeah, no, I know a lot of people talk about Melbourne as an easy option. But just to say like for a lot of people when they're trying to get into wine, Malbeck is like a very approachable wine, something that people can start drinking and then move on into other wines. So it's not about putting it down, it's more about lifting it out. So are we going to taste this and we're going to guess either it's the fifteen pound, it's the eighty pound or what's the other one? Four pounds. Right. Oh, this is exciting. I love a blind taste test when well , it's kind of a blind tast ed white jack. Oh God, Jack is in the bag. It's in the bag's in the bag Sorry . Okay, so Manny, we're around your house. . And we're doing taste testing. Okay. All right, I see how you swirl. Go on. You give it a oh, that swirling does change the smell of it, doesn't it? So when you swirl it , allowed the air to touch the water. So it opens it up a bit more. What you'd think? Well, it's not heavy enough for me that. I think it's mid range, don't you? I think that eighty quid one is gonna be like orgasm in a glass . I'm gonna reserve guessing just yet until I have the next one comparatively I need to see, but that to me feels quite light for a moment. That does feel light, yeah. So I don't think it's the eighty. That's my first thing. For eighty pounds , I want fireworks in my mouth. I want to be having a cigarette afterwards going. I want to berry just slacken things . Yeah. I want to hear the sound of the berries. One of the berries. They call me this You love it, yeah. You want another glass? But then when we're over , when we're over on a nice cuddle with the berries. Okay , yeah. Yeah. Rock in sleep. All right , let's see . Should we just take it in there ? Should we do it like deep rest? Like all right . So what are you getting from that manny? So obviously, small wires get should all berries. A restraining order of action . A car home . Taxi . A marriage proposal . I'm going to go mid range for now. The next one may change my opinion . See if I pour this away . Just give it to Alan Drink your gun, Mike Gohan. Danny Danny. Danny, Mike, Danad . All right. seven pound fifty there, worth it . Cool. So we're gonna go to number two . Number two. I'm still worried about seeing a glimpse of the label, I don't want to spoil it. All right, number two, smell that tell me what you feel. Already already check just got he's wrinkled . I know that when he swirls it, right? He'll put his glass down, he'll swear it, swirl it. I know he's going for God's sake. He just wants to drink. It's a waste of time. It's like get to it. , already. Listen, all this is, this is when you're trying to log on the internet and it's buffering. Well, at the own school I like myself. It's like a dialogue tone. Yeah. I have a cup of tea once it doesn't yeah . All right . Based on that smell alone , I might stick my neck on the line. Yeah. I think that could be the eighty pound one. Yeah. What do you think? It's smooth, it's good. It smells good, right? It's got layers, it's textured. Can you smell like the violets and stuff like that? So violets, some cassis? Do you know what with the other one before? I thought they'd used Tesco Value fruits. Yeah . But this to me is like tiny just Tesco pin the wrong company . You didn't work in test goals? I didn't make me to make coats again . Now this to me, this feels more mature . It feels well thought out. Do you know what I'm saying, love? I think he say he quiet. It's more structured. Well, the smell is a lot. The smell to me goes, I got a better smell there. The taste I'm still a bit . I need the third. So you got you guys like that though, you know? I like them both , but yeah I definitely don't think that's the lowest one. That's all I'll say. Right, cool. We're going to lock. All right . All right, here we go. Look at the color on that and then tell me what you think. Does it look like a proper mealbed? Just buffer it up. Slug it in buffering. Buffering . It was not a whirlbow . Taliga Taliga . Oh curveborn there we're going. So what do you think now? God your good mammy. You know what? I think I'm gonna have to have a glass of all three again. You must start again, yeah. Oh yeah . Oh here we go. No , alright, okay, I've got it. from the first to the last, which one do you prefer? And then which one you think is stupid? I prefer this. I prefer the last. The last one? Yeah. But we know we're not talking this isn't about, is it value for money or fancying the most expensive one? It's what you like, isn't it? It is, but I do think if you are buying an eighty pound bottle of wine, the expectation is you should like that the best. Of course . So what's the point then? Yeah, so you know, even that's my favorite , I would expect that to be eighty pounds. Yes. I think for like an eighty pound bola wine, you want velvety texture . You want like quality, you want flavors , all of those kinds of things are going on. What's wrong? You stress . I think the first one maybe was twelve pound and this is either the eighty quid or the twenty two . Yeah, that's the thing. I collected them randomly, did you? Yeah, I just mixed it up. So that way you wouldn't be able to tell. I mean, if he'd just done them in chronological order, well, I know, but that's what we're saying, maybe he has because the first one they laugh. All right guys, I'm just gonna top you up a little bit. Yeah, this is the third one that we liked the most . So okay are we gonna are we gonna do this? I think I'm the same as you. I think the first one twelve pound , I think the second twenty two and I think the third eighty . But I'm slightly dubious because I'm like, Would you have put them all in that order? But then it's a double bluff. I think you've just put them in a bag. You just lit them straight. You haven't even mixed them up? You think we're stupid? No, no, no, no. He's seen . Shall we reveal? I'm gonna reveal it to you, yeah. Oh, okay form. So which one did you say? The first one did you say we found were the cheapest one? The first one was the first one. The first one we think was twelve pounds. It was it was it was. Yeah, the first one was the cheapest one. So your dad did a good job. number two . Number two, oh god, have we risked it all? Have we ruined it? So this one is the twenty two pound one. I'm so proud of that. twenty two pounds. So that's more the mid range so you got like definitely great flav ors, more a longer finish on that as well as like a couple of more things like I'm feeling quite emotional because we do a lot of drinking and I'm glad that it just doesn't all go to waste . I guess in this in this segment . Yeah . It would have been good to go. Oh my god, you don't need to get an eighty pound bottle of the wine, blah blah blah but it does prove that a expensive bottle of wine you are going to get good quality. The worst thing would be if we were like , oh, I hate that and we'd chosen that as the twelve pound one. That would be the worst. Yeah, well with the taste tests like this, you tend to see more what your flavor palette is, how much quality you like in your wine. And the thing is just because it's cheaper doesn't mean it's not good. No, again, which is why I'm saying this twelve pound one, delicious, but what I'm saying is this eighty pound one. That's the one that was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meanwhile when I say it was a big boy it's the big boy. It really is the big boy. So yeah, the last one obviously is the eighty pound bottle . The container's a battle. That's it. Boy. Do you think you could handle that? What are you asking ? So before you go, we'd like to ask you a question. This one is from Hayden Thorpe. Hi, Alan and Leil of the podcast. Thank you, Hayden. I'm new to drinking wine as I've always found it too acidic to the point that it feels like I'm drinking bleach. Where are you getting your wines from? I get my wine from being goof Try and narrow down which ones I'll have more success with as I've even tried low acidity wines but they feel acidic. I'm trying to figure out what the problem is or if the problem is just me Hayden Hayden problem is you That's that then with sort of that's a go on. No, no , what have he said and have to look out for? Main things is probably like regions and countries that he's getting his wine from. So if it's a white w,ine he's probably getting m it from the northern heisphere. So looking at maybe France and stuff like that. So if he wants something that's not as acidic, something that has a little bit more body, they might have to go to the south . So a lot of the new world wines tend to be quite good for that kind of stuff. So looking at Australia, you might also look at Argentina, South America , South Africa even breaks from those kind of areas. Yeah. So look out for that and then start from there. That's yeah, start from there, like go to the south and then move on to new world countries more or less. Yeah. And then maybe even the Great Variety. You move away from the Savign Blancs, but you're going to get a lot of acidity with those. Thank you, Manny so much. Watch your Instagram handle again. Yep. So it's Money Dose wine on Instagram, TikTok . It's full of bargains hints, and you go all over there. You love your one. He's so lovely. You go everywhere everywhere and you're so knowledgeable. So thank you so much for it. Thank you very much for before we go shall we have a little bottoms up? Oh wait and empty. Oh , let me see you a good one. Just pop forty quid in there, if you're staring. If you've enjoyed this episode of Bottoms Up, you know where to find us. Our brand new episode drops every Wednesday on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And next week we're going to be joined by the King of Etiquette himself. William Hansen will be here. We're super excited, but also a little bit nervous. We're going to be asking him whether we need to be slurping,r sniffing, spitting , sniffing, shitting our wine or whatnot. 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