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Category Archives: Wine and Food
Mastering Food and Wine Pairing at Masters Superfish
This is a wine blog, and I suppose that when I write about a restaurant I concentrate on the wine…and the food too, of course. But this piece isn’t primarily about either, but rather a musing on “lunch” in a … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Champagne, Dining, Loire, Portuguese wine, Restaurants, South African Wines, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged 'T Voetpad 2016, Casablanca Chardonnoir, Chardonnoir Bodegas Re Chile, Dom Perignon 2002, Eben Sadie 'T Voetpad, Fish & Chips and Wine, Fish & Chips in London, Food and Wine Matching, Hortas do Caseirinho Frisante, Masters Superfish Waterloo, Red Vinho Verde, Sadie Family Old Vines Series, Vouvray Pétillant Huet
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More From Silo
In the world of wine there are lulls and there are storms. In the following few weeks, in the way that people somehow always organise everything together, there are some big events in London. After the Real Wine Fair over … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Dining, Natural Wine, Restaurants, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Alwin Jurtschitsch, Ania Smelskaya, Best Sourdough Bread, Domaine Les Arabesques, Fuchs und Hase Kamptal, Georgian Chinuri, Iago Bitarishvili, Iago's Wine Chinuri, Il Farneto Emilia Romagna, Kartli Chinuri, Martin Arndorfer, Ocarina 2016, Rio Rocca Frisant, Saskia van der Horst, Silo, Silo at Crate Brewery Hackney Wick, Silo Brighton, Zero Waste Restaurant
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Vienna Week 2 – Dining
If I were to make a personal recommendation for anyone looking to dine out in Vienna, assuming they share the same kind of wine obsessions as I do, then I suppose I’d have to go with Mast Weinbistro. However, Mast was … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Dining, Natural Wine, Vienna, Wiener Beisl, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Alexander Koppitsch Weissburgunder, Glacis Beisl Vienna, Michelin Starred Vegetarian, Natural Wine Lists Vienna, Rennersistas In A Hell Mood, Smart Vegan Option in Vienna, Vienna Natrural Wine
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Sherry Baby (Pizarro Sherry Lunch)
At least once a year the treat of a Sherry-focused lunch comes around, and I’m sure some of you have read tales from our “Fish & Fino” lunches in the past. This week we went to Pizarro, one of José … Continue reading
Posted in Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Amontillado, Amontillado 30-y-o Bodegas Tradicion, Antique Oloroso Fernando de Castilla, Berry Brothers Sherry Bottlings, Equipo Navazos, Fino, Inocente Fino Valdespino, Jerez Wine, La Bota de Amontillado 37, La Bota de Manzanilla Pasada 59, La Bota de Palo Cortado 72 "Pata de Gallina", La Gitana Aniversario Hidalgo, Lustau Palo Cortado Almacenista Vides, Manzanilla, Montilla-Moriles, Old & Plus Oloroso Romate, Oloroso, Palo Cortado, Pedro-Ximenez Grape, Pizarro Bermondsey, PX Grown in Jerez, Sanlucar, Sherry, Sherry Lunch, Solera Fundacion 1830 PX Navarro, Spanish Restaurants London, Tio Pepe Una Palma, Very Old Sherry, Ximenez-Spinola Medium Old Harvest
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Songs From The Wood (Lime Wood)
We were lucky to be part of a group of eight that had the chef’s table at Lime Wood the weekend before last. Lime Wood is a Regency-era country house hotel set in parkland in the New Forest, at Lyndhurst. The … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine and Food
Tagged Château de Beaucastel 1999, Château Fayau Cadillac, Chef's Table Dining, Hartnett Holder & Co, Lime Wood Hotel, New Forest Dining, New Forest restaurants, Rosa dei Frati, San Lorenzo Ciliegiolo, Sassotondo, Seresin Leah Pinot Noir, Stéphane Tissot Chardonnay Gravières
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Red, White and Orange Friday at the Draper’s Arms
Bereft of the pleasures of intensive shopping on Black Friday I was forced to settle for a long lunch at the Draper’s Arms in Islington with seventeen wines (one was corked) among seven of us. We were all slightly wobbly … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Australian Sous Voile Wine, Beaujolais Villages Nouveau Guy Breton, Brash Higgins Bloom 2008, Bruno Schueller, Castello dei Rampolla Sammarco 2005, Céline and Steve Gormally, Côtes du Jura Les Dolomies, Chardonnay Les Combes, Chardonnay Mizuiro Les Saugettes, Clare Valley Riesling, Clos Lapeyre Jurançon, Dario Princic Ribolla Gialla 2013, Domaine des Miroirs Grusse, Draper's Arms Islington, Dundee Hills Pinot Noir, Ganevat L'Enfant Terrible Poulsard, Gérard Schueller Pinot Noir LNO12, Grosset Polish Hill Riesling 2013, Guy Breton Cuvée Fanchon 2017, Horiot en Valingrain 2006, Jean Foillard Fleurie 2010, Jeffrey Grosset, Kelley Fox Maresh Pinot Noir, Kenjiro Kagami, Krughof Bornheimer Schönberg, Les Riceys, London Dining, Magendia de Lapeyre, McLaren Vale Flor-aged Chardonnay, Nick Gibson, Olivier Horiot, Optima, Passenans, Raveneau Butteaux, Raveneau Chablis, Rheinhessen Beerenauslese, Ridge Monte Bello 2004, Rosé des Riceys, Seigerrebe
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Eastern France Part 5 – Bérêche, Champagne
I can tell you two things about my relationship with Bérêche which will inform your reading of the rest of this article. First of all I will name you my favourite four Champagnes. They are Péters Chétillons, Philipponnat Clos des … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Travel
Tagged Bérèche, Bérêche Crus Sélectionnés, Bereche et Fils, Campania Remensis, Côte Montagne and Vallée, Champagne, Coteaux Champenois, Craon de Ludes, Eastern France Trip 2017, Grower Champagne, Le Cran, Lees ageing under cork, Maison Bereche, Montagne de Reims Growers, Raphael Bereche, Reflet d'Antan, Terres et Vins de Champagne, Vincent Bereche, Vins d'Auteurs de Champagne
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