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Wimps! (Champagne & Chardonnay)

Posted on 03/08/2017 by dccrossley

Wimps is a wine lunch. It was one of the early examples of what people who inhabit internet forums call an offline, where people who meet online actually get together, flesh and blood. “Wimps” isn’t an acronym. It was coined by its … Continue reading →

New Forest, New Culinary Destination

Posted on 19/07/2017 by dccrossley

I’ve written about New Forest restaurants before, but it is clear that this rather beautiful part of Southern England is currently developing a gastronomic reputation to rival any in the country. It is certainly now possible to spend a week … Continue reading →

Posted in Dining, Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Travel | Tagged Bourgogne Chitry De Moor, Dining in the New Forest, Double Agnolotti, Elderflower Restaurant Lymington, Escape Yachting, Hartnett Holder & Co, Julien Bailly at Elderflower, Lime Wood Hotel Lyndhurst, Lymington Dining, Lymington Restaurants, New Forest, New Forest dining destination, New Forest Gastronomy, New Forest Gin Bars, New Forest restaurants, Ostertag Fronholz Gewurztraminer VT 2007, Schiefer Blaufränkisch 2015, Stephane Tissot Cremant du Jura BBF, Thatched Cottage Gin Bar, Thatched Cottage Hotel Brockenhurst, Williams Selyem Sonoma Pinot Noir 2000 | Leave a comment

Another “Masters” Class (Spanish Whites)

Posted on 28/04/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 1 Comment

Senorans at The Shipyard

Posted on 07/04/2017 by dccrossley

I was back at Lymington’s wonderful Shipyard Restaurant last week for a dinner with Javier Izurieta, Export Director of Pazo Senorans. The Shipyard is getting a reputation for wine, and in fact they have a tasty looking event on 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in Spanish Wine, Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Tastings | Tagged Albarino, Galician Wine, Javier Izurieta, Lymington Dining, Lymington Restaurants, Pazo Senorans, Rias Baixas Wine, Solent Cellar, Spanish Wine, Wine Dinner | 4 Comments

Muy Generoso

Posted on 29/01/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 1 Comment

Late January back in Se-ven-teen

Posted on 23/01/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 1 Comment

Panacea – A Remedy for all Ills

Posted on 19/01/2017 by dccrossley

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 →

Posted in Dining, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Alice & Olivier De Moor, Chablis L'Humeur du Temps, The Remedy Fitzrovia, The Remedy London | 2 Comments

The Shipyard

Posted on 22/12/2016 by dccrossley

The New Forest is one of the UK’s most interesting places to dine at the moment. One of the newest restaurants in and around Lymington is The Shipyard Fishmarket, Bar and Kitchen, beyond Lymington Quay, in the thick of the town’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Austrian Wine, English Wine, Jura, Natural Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Domaine No Control Gamay Fusion, Ganevat Cuvée Prestige 2006, Gut Oggau Theodora, Lymington Restaurants, Martin Diwald Sparkling Gruner Veltliner, New Forest Dining, Oxidative Savagnin, South Coast Fish Restaurants, Sugrue-Pierre The Trouble with Dreams, The Shipyard Fishmarket Bar & Kitchen, The Shipyard Lymington, Vince Marie Gamay Fusion | 4 Comments

Tuscan Raiders

Posted on 28/11/2016 by dccrossley

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 | Leave a comment

A Different Market Tavern

Posted on 13/10/2016 by dccrossley

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 | 1 Comment

Category Archives: Wine and Food

Wimps! (Champagne & Chardonnay)

New Forest, New Culinary Destination

Another “Masters” Class (Spanish Whites)

Senorans at The Shipyard

Muy Generoso

Late January back in Se-ven-teen

Panacea – A Remedy for all Ills

The Shipyard

Tuscan Raiders

A Different Market Tavern

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