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Category Archives: Wine and Food
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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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
