[Closed] Wine, Beer and cheese recommendations

Ales - Spitfire is good but get something local if you can - most supermarkets now do this (at last!)
Wine - hard to beat a nice Bordeaux with cheese but get a Rioja or two as well. Struggle to recommend New World but they are generally pretty full bodied which goes well with cheese - go Californian of you can but if not, something S American - I've yet to have a bad Chilean red.
Cheese - a really good cheddar, a nice stilton and a good soft cheese should do the trick.

If you need more detail on the wine, I can go to full nerd mode...

Well beer isn't so much of a problem as Black Sheep and Theakstons are down the road, as is the Wensleydale creamery for cheese,

I'm a big fan of Black Sheeps "holy ale" and that goes well with a selection of wensleydale cheeses.

I just wanted to add to it, and I don't drink any wine. Wife always get 3for2 but wants to impress.

Is it ok to get a selection or should it be like 3 of one and 3 of the other? Would 6 quality bottles do around 7-8 wine drinkers?

Tesco are doing La Lagunilla @ £30 for 6, I bought 12 and can reccomend it. It's a bargain at that price 😀

my advice would to get down to the creamery and get a selection from them including what wines will go well with the selection

I'm a bit spoilt down 'ere in Kent - this shop is just round the corner

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Fursty ferret ale
Rioja crianza
Manchego cheese

Nom nom nom

I'm a fan of rioja, so would recommend 2004/5 rioja crianza, shouldn't be too expensive.

Cheesewise, I guess that if you have access to a farm creamery rather than a larger cheese factory. As you're in the area a farmhouse wensleydale would be nice.

Good cheddar with the wine, in Sainsburys go to the expensive cheese counter and get a good selection of British cheeses, no need for the foreign muck! 😉

I buy wine at Tesco and the trick is to buy the half price wines at £4.50 to £5.

They seem to have a group of wines that for 3 weeks out of 4 are on sale at £9 to £10, and 1 week in for are at half price. They rotate them, so there's always a selection under a fiver.

I would be really disappointed if I had bought one for the full price, but at half price they're well worth it. Thinngs like Hardy's Crest, Promenade de Dieu, Banrock etc.

Somebody mentioned Manchego cheese. So So. In Spain they always eat that with a sweet Muscat wine.

St Agur (a toned down Roquefort), Jarlsberg are always reliable. Then you need some Garners pickled onions, Carrs water biscuits (the big ones) and President unsalted butter.

oh and get some quince jelly/rose harissa/other paste or chutney, some really decent olive oil, really good and sweet balsamic vinegar and sour dough bread for lightly toasting.

nom and indeed nom again

For a bit of dessert, I can recommend the following:

Oatcakes(something with a citrus flavour for preference), topped with a nice goats cheese and drizzled with a bit of honey. Nom nom nom!

stop it 🙂

Had a particularly nice Chianti from M&S this week, if you do go there.

The one that's reduced to £4.50 or £5 I think. Highly recommended.

Wine I'm no expert on but beer, that's one of the few areas in life where I excel!

OK,it's a beautiful summer's day so summer beer is where it's at right now. I would heartily recommend a Badger Golden Champion or if the requirement is for something a little lighter, Golden Glory. Both are summer in a glass. Failing that a Fuller's Organic Honeydew is another beer made for summer. If the beer is to be consumed with cheese then maybe something a little more robust may be in order. Either a Leffe Blond or an Innes and Gunn would fit the bill perfectly here. Both will leave you feeling a content satisfaction and oneness with the world.

Onto the cheese, wensleydale with orange and cranberries is a surprisingly nice combination as is cheddar with black pepper. A nice camenbert will not disappoint and a nutty emmental is inoffensive to all. A good solid English mature cheddar is an essential with maybe some Bourssin as well.

Rioja and me don't get on at all. Especially when blue cheese is thrown in the mix. Dreams are kinda like I'd expect a bad tip to be.

Hope the evening goes well.

Cheers for the help took a few suggestions and they are going down well.

Thumbs up.

S'pose it's a bit late now but LiDL are selling Franziskaner Weissbier, in my opinion the nicest wheat beer available in this country, for a piffling £1.39 a bottle at the moment. Usually costs £1.90 odd from other major supermarkets.

If you like wheat beer, get round there and fill yer boots.