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The Secret Garden and The Pig
Tim Phillips isn’t a name many of you will have come across. Tim has several winemaking strings to his bow, with projects in South Africa and in Italy, but Tim’s current focus is very different. Clos du Paradis is not … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, English Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Charlie Herring Wines, Clos du Paradis, Domaine Sparale Corse Sartène, English Organic Wine, English Sauvignon Blanc, English Sparkling Riesling, New Forest Dining, New Forest restaurants, Sadie Skerpioen, The Pig Brockenhurst, Tim Phillips, Walled Vineyard
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Another “Masters” Class (Spanish Whites)
Just six of us were at Masters Superfish yesterday for a lunch themed on Spanish Whites. I must say that there are those among us who feel that our Fino lunches here in Waterloo provide a wine style most suited to fish … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Spanish Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Adegas Coroa Godello 2006, Alan de Val, Bodega Can Ramon, Bodegas Sonsierra Rioja, Castell d'Encus, Clos Lentiscus Sumoll Ferèstec, Colet, Colet-Navazos Reserva 2010, Costers del Segre, Ekam, Equipo Navazos, Godello, Masters Superfish Waterloo, Palacio de Canedo, Pardoxin Dulce, Pedrazais Godello Sobre Lias, Prado a Tope, Spanish Riesling, Spanish sparkling wine, Spanish white wines, Sweet Godello, Tempranillo Blanco, Valdeorras
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Muy Generoso
Generoso usually refers just to a dry fortified wine, but in this case it refers to our Sherry lunch on Friday where we drank largely wines of a darker hue, Amontillado, through Palo Cortado and Oloroso, to PX. Of course, it … Continue reading
Posted in Sherry, Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Amontillado, Bodegas Navarro Solera Fundacion 1830, Bodegas Tradicion, Bota de Amontillado 49, Chipiona, Cooperativa Catolico Agricola, Cuatro Palmas Gonzalez Byass, Dos Cortado Palo Cortado, Equipo Navazos, Fernando de Castilla, Florpower 57, Fortnum & Mason Sherry, Generoso Lunch, Generoso Wines, Gonzalez Palacios Old Oloroso, Gutierrez Colosia Moscatel, Lebrija, Niepoort-Navazos 2014, Oloroso, Palomino table wine, Pedro Ximenez, PX, Sandeman Dry Amontillado, Unfortified Palomino, Williams & Humbert
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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
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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