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Category Archives: Dining
Tuscan Raiders
There’s a group of aficionados of all things Toscana which meets several times a year to drink frankly far too much wine in impressive restaurants. It has been a while since I’ve been able to join them, so I was … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Italian Wine, Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Tastings
Tagged Altesino 1975, Altesino 1985, Brunello di Montalcino, Col d'Orcia Poggio al Vento 2004, Florio Marsala 1840, Il Marroneto Brunello 2004, Il Torchio Stralunato, Marsala, Montenidoli Carato Vernaccia, Poliziano Asinone 1997, Riecine Sebastiano Passito, Sassotondo Ciliegiolo San Lorenzo, Selvapiana Vin Santo, Sesti Brunello 2001, Sesti Phenomena 2001, The Glasshouse Kew, Tuscan Raiders, Tuscan Wine, Vermentino Colli di Luni, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
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A Different Market Tavern
In England at least, a market tavern tends to be a noisy pub selling warm beer with generous amounts slopping onto a sticky floor. Old Spitalfields Market has Taberna do Mercado, a very different proposition, and as we are not blessed … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Adega Moncao Vinho Verde, Antonio Galapito, Bairrada Vadio, Casa de Ste Eufemia, Coche Douro Branco, Niepoort Coche, Nuno Mendes, Old Spitalfields Market, Portuguese custard tart, Portuguese food, Portuguese tapas in London, Portuguese wine, Taberna do Mercado
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It’s a Wonderful Life
I’m of an age, well, not too old, where I still remember as teenager sitting around with friends listening to vinyl, discovering together a passion for bands we’d never heard before. I guess people with a passion for all sorts … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Wine
Tagged 28-50 Marylebone, Antinori Guado al Tasso 1995, Bairrada Branco Quinta das Bageiras 1994, Chassagne Caillerets 2010, Clonakilla Shiraz-Viognier 2005, Delamotte Blanc de Blancs 2004, Leoville-Las-Cases 1994, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey, PYCM, St-Aubin En Remilly 2013
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Keeping My Chinato Up
I have a mate called Warren. Some of you may know him. He’s the guy who organises the occasional Spice Oddities spin-off we have at the India Club on The Strand, and the Fish ‘n Fino lunches at Masters’ near … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Italian Wine, Piemonte, Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Tastings
Tagged Cantina Tresecoli, Castello di Tagliolo, Chinato, Chinensis, food and wine, Iranian Cuisine, L'In...chino, Pardis Restaurant, Persian Cuisine, Piemonte Wine Specialities, Quaquarini, Sestario, Valdespino Quina, wine lunches
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More Than Just Cordial
I enjoyed a tasting event at Elderflower Restaurant a few weekends ago (see here), but until Saturday night I hadn’t dined there. That was soon put right, four of us enjoying a meal of a standard high enough that I … Continue reading
Solent
Elderflower Restaurant, on the cobbled street leading to Lymington Quay, is gaining a very good reputation under chef Andrew Du Bourg (previously Head Chef at Chewton Glen and Club Gascon) and wife Marjolaine. They provided the canapés and crudités for … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Wine, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alion 2011, Andrew Du Bourg, Anselmo Mendes Alvarinho Contacto, Casa Belfi Prosecco Colfondo, Chateau Cibonne Tentations, Cherubino Fiano, Clos Cibonne, Coume del Mas Banyuls, Domaine Treloar, Elderflower Lymington, Eschenhof Holzer Blauer Zweigelt, Foillard Cote du Py, Foillard Morgon, Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Spatlese Auction 2002, Jon Hesford, Lymington, One Block Grenache, One Block Muscat, Pascal Jolivet Sancerre Rouge Sauvage, Rachel Treloar, Raveneau Montée de Tonnerre 2004, Roederer Cristal 2007, Saladini Pilastri Falerio, Solent Cellar, South African Touriga Nacional, Tahi, Terre Promise, Thorle Spatburgunder, Treloar Three Peaks, Vasco and the Explorers, Verveine Fish Restaurant, Villa Marcello Prosecco
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Chop Chop – Post Haisma/Le Grappin Lunch
Nine winoholics, or at least that’s how one sometimes feels in failing to follow the “Dry January” dictat, had a table booked at Quality Chop House on Farringdon Road for a post-Vinoteca tasting lunch (it is work, you know). As … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Agrapart 7 Crus, Castel d'Encus, Hudelot-Baillet, J-P Brun Cote Rotie, Lanson Noble Cuvee, Le Cupole, Leitz Rudesheimer Berg Roseneck, Mullineux Straw Wine, Musar 1996, Quality Chop House, Riverby Noble Riesling, Trinoro, Vina Real 1975, Zind-Humbrecht Clos Hauserer
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Oddities 9 – It’s Getting Better (All the Time)
We had loosely termed this the Christmas Oddities, which might be stretching it too far when this ninth lunch in the series took place on 4th December, yet there’s no doubt that most of the people present approached Rochelle Canteen … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosnia Home Winemaking, Chateau d'Arlay, Chateau Musar, Clos du Papillon, Di Bruno Sangiovese, Equipo Navazos, Gravner Breg, Guccione Perricone, Hatzidakis Vinsanto Santorini, La Grange de Quattre Sous, Mythopia, Oddities Lunches, Palo Cortado Bota Punta 48, Rochelle Canteen, Selosse, Shvo Vineyards Galillee, Thierry Navarre Rybeyrenc, Vajra Freisa Kyé
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 