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Tuscan Gems at The Glasshouse

Posted on 07/11/2018 by dccrossley

It’s almost two years since I visited The Glasshouse in Kew (right by the Underground Station). On that occasion it was with the same bunch of people who come down to London from all over the UK a few times … Continue reading →

Posted in Dining, Italian Wine, Tuscan Wine, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Badia a Coltibuono Sangioveto 1997, Baricci Colombaio Montosoli 2008, Biondi Santi Rosso di Montalcino 2008, Bolgheri Vermentino, Chianti Classico Riserva Riecine, Fontodi Flaccianello 1999, La Porta di Vertine 2010, Mastrojani Brunello di Montalcino 1993, Panizzi Evoé Vernaccia, Poggio al Tesoro Vermentino, Riecine, Riecine Riserva 1988, Riecine Riserva 1997, Riecine Sebastiano 2001, Solosole Pagus Camilla, The Glasshouse Kew, Tuscan Raiders Wine Lunch, Tuscan wines | 6 Comments

Sportsman (but Seasalter, No Football Here)

Posted on 19/06/2018 by dccrossley

I do actually enjoy the football, but pretty much nothing would have got in the way of another trip to The Sportsman at Seasalter in Kent last Friday. Certainly not the seven hours on various trains it took to get … Continue reading →

Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche 2004, Bérêche Coteaux Champenois Les Montées 2014, Brunello di Montalcino 2010 Il Paradiso di Manfredi, Clos de la Grand Cour 2014, Domaine de la Grand Cour Fleurie 2014, Domaine Marcel Deiss Engelgarten 2014, Fine Dining, J-F Ganevat Cuvée Prestige Savagnin 2008, Jean-Louis Dutraive, Kent Dining, Labet Bardette Chardonnay 2014, Leroy Montagny 1er Cru 2014 (Maison Leroy), Palladius Sadie Family 2014, Prieuré Roch Gamay Coteaux Bourguignons 2015, Prieuré Roch Ladoix "Le Cloud" 2015, Puffeney Arbois Savagnin 2014, Puffeney Savagnin 2014, Slipsole, South African Vin de Paille Swartland, Taganan Blanco 2016 Tenerife Envinate, The Sportsman Seasalter, Vilmart Coeur de Cuvee 2003, Wieser-Kunstler Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling Trocken 2015 | 3 Comments

Sherry Baby (Pizarro Sherry Lunch)

Posted on 10/02/2018 by dccrossley

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 | Leave a comment

Songs From The Wood (Lime Wood)

Posted on 19/12/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 2 Comments

Red, White and Orange Friday at the Draper’s Arms

Posted on 27/11/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 2 Comments

Eastern France Part 5 – Bérêche, Champagne

Posted on 15/11/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 2 Comments

The Secret Garden and The Pig

Posted on 17/09/2017 by dccrossley

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 | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Champagne, Wine, Wine and Food | Tagged Billaud-Simon, Chablis Vaudésir 2002, Champagne and Chardonnay Lunch, Champagne Palmer 1998 en magnum, Château Climens Barsac 1983, Jacquesson Cuvée 736, La Grande Année 1999 Bollinger, La Trompette, Meursault Chevalières Henri Germain, Meursault En La Barre Jobard, Pain Perdu, Pol Roger Winston Churchill 2000, Veuve Clicquot Trillennium Reserved Cuvée 1989, Vilmart Coeur de Cuvée 2004, Vilmart Coeur de Cuvee 2002, Vilmart Grand Cellier d'Or 2004, Wimps, Winepages Offlines | 12 Comments

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

Category Archives: Wine and Food

Tuscan Gems at The Glasshouse

Sportsman (but Seasalter, No Football Here)

Sherry Baby (Pizarro Sherry Lunch)

Songs From The Wood (Lime Wood)

Red, White and Orange Friday at the Draper’s Arms

Eastern France Part 5 – Bérêche, Champagne

The Secret Garden and The Pig

Wimps! (Champagne & Chardonnay)

New Forest, New Culinary Destination

Another “Masters” Class (Spanish Whites)

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