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Category Archives: Wine and Food
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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A Different Market Tavern
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
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Keeping My Chinato Up
I have a mate called Warren. Some of you may know him. He’s the guy who organises the occasional Spice Oddities spin-off we have at the India Club on The Strand, and the Fish ‘n Fino lunches at Masters’ near … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Italian Wine, Piemonte, Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Tastings
Tagged Cantina Tresecoli, Castello di Tagliolo, Chinato, Chinensis, food and wine, Iranian Cuisine, L'In...chino, Pardis Restaurant, Persian Cuisine, Piemonte Wine Specialities, Quaquarini, Sestario, Valdespino Quina, wine lunches
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More Than Just Cordial
I enjoyed a tasting event at Elderflower Restaurant a few weekends ago (see here), but until Saturday night I hadn’t dined there. That was soon put right, four of us enjoying a meal of a standard high enough that I … Continue reading
Chop Chop – Post Haisma/Le Grappin Lunch
Nine winoholics, or at least that’s how one sometimes feels in failing to follow the “Dry January” dictat, had a table booked at Quality Chop House on Farringdon Road for a post-Vinoteca tasting lunch (it is work, you know). As … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Fine Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Agrapart 7 Crus, Castel d'Encus, Hudelot-Baillet, J-P Brun Cote Rotie, Lanson Noble Cuvee, Le Cupole, Leitz Rudesheimer Berg Roseneck, Mullineux Straw Wine, Musar 1996, Quality Chop House, Riverby Noble Riesling, Trinoro, Vina Real 1975, Zind-Humbrecht Clos Hauserer
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New Glasses – Should’ve Gone to Spec Savers
You’d have thought that the readers of the Daily Telegraph were as au fait as anyone with the appropriate stemware for Champagne. In an article on 27 December written by Camilla Turner, the author recommended flutes over the bad old coupe. That … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Glasses, Wine Science
Tagged Beer Anorak Beer Glass, Beer Glasses, Camilla Turner Article, Champagne Coupe, Champagne Flute, Champagne Glasses, Champagne Tulip, Champagne with food, Daniel Primack, Gérard Liger-Belair, Riedel, Wine Glasses, Winerackd, Zalto, Zalto Universal
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How the Other Half Leflaives
If one only drank the kind of wines which I do much of the time, the ones most normal people think a bit odd, then I would be like those wine makers who only drink their own wines. The palate … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Wine, Sherry, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Chave, Clape, Dom Pérignon, Equipo Navazos, Jacquesson, Leflaive, Moulin Touchais
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Spice Up Your Life
That seems so long ago, doesn’t it! My life needed spicing up yesterday, one of those mornings, thankfully not coming along too often, when Friday 13th seemed to have arrived a week early. It was our last “curry” lunch before … Continue reading
