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Author Archives: dccrossley
Late January back in Se-ven-teen
I’m chanelling “Oh What a Night” (The Four Seasons)…Not December 1963, but still “What a Very Special Time for Me, As I Remember, What a Night”. If you know the song, that’s what it felt like. I rarely write about … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Premium Spirits, Rum, Sherry, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Alois Kracher, Arnold Holzer, Austrian Botrytis Wine, Austrian Skin Contact Wine, Bota de Palo Cortado 62, Burgenland Sweet Wine, Chateau-Chalon 1999, Chateau-Chalon Granges Bernard, Chevassu-Fassenet, Denis Chevassu, Equipo Navazos, Equipo Navazos Ron Bota 65, Equipo Navazos Sherry Jerez, Eschenhof Holzer The Orange 2013, Hermitage La Chapelle 1998, Illmitz Wine, Jaboulet La Chapelle 1998, Kracher, Kracher Nouvelle Vague, La Fromagerie Comté, La Fromagerie London Cheesemonger, Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet, Piper-Heidsieck Rare 2002, Red Squirrel Wine Agency, Roter Veltliner, Seewinkel Sweet Wine, tarte tatin wine match, Traminer TbA 2004, Wagram
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Panacea – A Remedy for all Ills
I’m not really one to make New Year’s Resolutions, but I won’t deny the tendency to make a few wishes – things I’d like to do, places I’d like to go, in the coming year. One of those was to … Continue reading
Great Exhibitionists
The Winemakers Club and Carte Blanche Wines got together again at Farringdon Street Vaults for their Winter Portfolio Tasting. Readers of this Blog will know Winemakers very well. Their philosophy is finely stated in the words of founder/owner John Baum: … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic wine, Hungarian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Austrian Wine, Burgenland Wine, Carte Blanche Wines, Christophe Muret, Domaine de L'Horizon Calce, Domaine des Marnes Blanches Jura, Domaine du Mortier, Empriente de Temps, Fabien Jouves, Feudo dei Sanseverino Calabria, Franken Wine, Gino Pedrotti, Grange de L'Oncle Charles, Great Exhibition Tasting, Hegyikalo Eger Hungary, Il Guercio, Jerome Francois, Karim Vionnet Beaujolais, Kiral Yudvar Tokaj, Maestro Terenzio Passito, Mas del Périé Cahors, Meinklang, Meinklang Graupert, Meinklang Konkret, Mouthes le Bihan Duras, Nosiola, Ostheim Alsace Wine, Pamhagen Austria, Riecine, Sean O'Callaghan, Shobbrook Giallo, Shobbrook Seppeltsfield, Sittweg Alsace, Stefan Vetter Franken, Tom Shobbrook, Tommy Field, Tommy Ruff, Trentino Vino Santo, Winemakers Club
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I Met a Traveller from an Antique Land
…My name is Ozburgundian, Winemaker of Winemakers, Look on my Wines, ye Mighty, and despair! Okay, not quite what Shelley had in mind, but the mighty Ozgundians were in town again yesterday, this time joined by another Australian washed up … Continue reading
Posted in Burgundy, Fine Wine, Rhone, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Aligoté, Andrew Nielsen, Burgundy 2015, Dagon Clan, Dealu Mare Wine, Emma Nielsen, Fixin Les Arvelets, Haisma Bonnes Mares, Haisma Cornas 2015, Haisma Romania, Jane Eyre Wines, Jérémy Recchione, Le Grappin, Mark Haisma, Mark Haisma Ardeche, The Ozgundians, Vincent Paris, Vinoteca Soho Tasting, Wanderlust Wines
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Beyond the Classics
January sees the tasting circuit back in full swing after the Winter Solstice, so much so that there were at least four tastings yesterday which I would have liked to have gone to. I chose the tasting of the French Vigneron … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alexandre Roux, Anne de Lanversin, Ariege Wine, Beyond the Classics Tasting, Ch de Peyrel Bergerac/Rosette, Champagne Fresne Ducret, Chateau La Haye Le Cedre, Chateau Leroy-Beauval Bordeaux, Christian Voeux, Corsican Wine, Domaine de la Font des Peres Bandol, Domaine Derame Muscadet, Domaine du Deffends Var, Domaine L'Amauve Seguret, Domaine Leccia, Domaine Py Corbieres, Dominik Benz, Gros Plant, Mas Oncle Ernest Ventoux, Patrimonio, The Vinyl Factory, Vigneron Independant
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Happy New Year 2017
I did consider a review of 2016, you know, what I drank, but it just seemed boastful and self indulgent for me (no aspersions cast on anyone else). It’s also quite likely you’ve read about it all on my blog … Continue reading
Posted in Wine
Tagged 2017, Happy New Year, What I'll be drinking, Wine for 2017, Wine Trends
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Recent Wines – December 2016
The sudden realisation that if I don’t write about some recent wines soon, we shall be into the festive flurry, reminded me I do have a few exceptionally tasty wines to tell you about. In clearing the decks, don’t think … Continue reading
Posted in Aosta, Argentinian Wine, Beaujolais, Champagne, Christmas and Wine, Matias Michelini, Michelini Brothers, Natural Wine, Passionate Wine, Wine
Tagged Aosta Pinot Noir, Arbois, Auvergne Gamay, Brut de Cuve, Cave des Papilles Paris, Champagne Bereche, Domaine des Bodines Chardonnay, Elio Ottin Pinot Noir, Flint Wines, Gilles Berlioz Chignin, Hughes Beguet Plouss' Mousse, Magma Rock, Matias Michelini, No Control Wines, Passionate Wines, Prohibition Wines, Recent Wines, Romain des Grottes, Savoie Mondeuse, Selfridges Wine Dept, Solent Cellar, Via Revolucionaria Torrontes Brutal, Vincent Marie, Vine Trail, Winemakers Club
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Pearl of Brunswick
Our Oddities Christmas Lunch took place yesterday at Brunswick House in Vauxhall (London), a completely new venue for us. The theme was Fizz and Fortified. The restaurant, which I’d been desperate to try for some time, really nailed it for … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Oddities lunches, Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged 2Naturkinder Bat-Nat 2014, Bellavista Franciacorta Satèn, Brunswick House, Caluso Spumante Orsolani, Champagne Guiborat Prisme 05, Dom Pérignon 1973, Equipo Navazos Palo Cortado 47, Ferrari "Maximum" Trentodoc, François Chidaine Montlouis Brut, Huet Vouvray Pétillant 2005, Jean-Paul Brun FRV, Karelas Winery, La Bota de Palo Cortado 47, Lanson 1996, Mavrodaphne 1944, Niepoort-Sadie Cape Fortified, Oddities Lunches, Plum Sake Liqueur, Taylor's Vintage Port 1985
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Where To Now, Saint Vincent?
I think there are many wine obsessives who begin life very traditionally, enjoying the red wines of Bordeaux. But after that, Burgundy begins to fascinate, and fascination soon turns to something stronger. There are many reasons why this can happen, … Continue reading
Posted in Burgundy, Wine
Tagged A&P de Villaine, Aligoté, Alogoté, Aragonite, Bourgogne Rouge Le Digoine, Bourgogne-Vézelay, Bouzeron, Burgundy, Catherine & Jean Montanet, Chandon de Briailles, Cotes d'Auxerre, Cuvée 910, Domaine Berthaut, Domaine de la Cadette, Domaine des Vignes du Maynes, Du Grappin, Fixin, François Lumpp, Goisot, Héritiers du Comte Lafon, Ile des Vergelesses, Julien Guillot, Le Grappin, Macon-Cruzille, Maconnais, Manganite, Marsannay, Michel Juillot, Michel Sarrazin, micro negociants, Olivier & Alice De Moor, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey, PYCM, Roulot Bourgogne Blanc, Roulot Monthélie, Saint-Bris, St-Aubin En Remilly, Stéphane Aladame
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 