Barolo Peironte - Case of 6

Well a huge disappointment! Bought for Christmas lunch pairing and as other reviewers have stated - Thin, watery, acid vinegar taste after swallowing. How can M&S sell this let alone for the price? Don’t buy and waste your money.

This is a pleasant which is very easy to drink and not too robust. I have bought it two or three times now and would buy again.

Clean and complex. Great with food and on its own.

My daughter bought this for me as a gift. I opened this up and found the wine watery and tasteless. I telephoned her to enquire what price she paid for the bottle. She informed me it was £18.00! Reluctantly, I informed her I didn't think the wine was not worth £18 a bottle by any stretch of the imagination. I have had similar wine at £3.00 per bottle. I have spoken with my daughter regarding this and hope that she returns it for a full refund. 14 March 2020.

Bought a single bottle at Christmas £15 a bottle. Opened it to drink with Italian meal last weekend. Extremely disappointed , slightly oxidized with a brownish red colour. I expect a decent wine for £15 a bottle. This was not at all what I expect from M&S , could not drink a second glass and ended up using it in a casserole. Should have taken it back but could not be bothered to trail back to the shop.

I hosted an Italian dinner party recently, and as Barolo is typically my favourite red, I thought I’d go for this bottle for the main. I was unfortunately disappointed. Barolo is usually a rich, complex and heavy wine, but this was extremely thin and bland taste-wise, to the point of being almost watery. It certainly couldn’t make itself heard over the sausage and pepper rigatoni! Incidentally, I also had a beautiful £6 bottle of chianti from another supermarket for before and after the main, which put the Barolo to shame. The sommelier at my local M&S is extremely knowledgable and hasn’t sent me wrong with a recommendation so far, which has led me to believe that M&S generally stock wine of a high quality for a reasonable price - unfortunately, he wasn’t working when I bought this bottle, or I’m sure he would have suggested another. This is all to say, this wine was not what I’ve come to expect from Barolo or M&S.