Tag Archives: Jerez

Recent Wines April 2024 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 26/06/2024 by dccrossley

Part 2 for April is, somewhat similarly to Part 1, made up of a mix of the wines I usually drink and a bottle which doesn’t feature very often these days. We begin in Jerez, zip around Europe via Côte-Rôtie, … Continue reading →

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Recent Wines February 2024 (Part 2) #theglouthatbindsus

Posted on 11/03/2024 by dccrossley

This second part revealing the most interesting wines we drank at home during February doesn’t range quite as far and wide as Part 1 (no Japanese wine this time), but there is a good spread mixing the familiar with the … Continue reading →

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Butter or Marge, Daz or Dreft?

Posted on 01/12/2016 by dccrossley

“We don’t know which one is best?” as the words of the song go! Well, to put two world class wines in the same bracket as washing detergents is obviously unfair, but a while ago a small disagreement broke out … Continue reading →

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Master of Fino

Posted on 12/11/2016 by dccrossley

The wine pro of the 21st Century has to know a lot more than their Bordeaux and their Burgundy these days, but ironically a Master of Wine would, in the past, have known a lot more about his Sherry (I … Continue reading →

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Waterloo Fish-n-Fino

Posted on 31/01/2016 by dccrossley

A group of wine lovers from the Wine Pages forum used to partake in dinners we called “Fizz & Chips”, combining that traditional English stalwart, fish & chips, with sparkling wine (okay, to be honest it was most often very … Continue reading →

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The Power of Flor

Posted on 10/05/2015 by dccrossley

Most serious wine lovers have known about the Equipo-Navazos operation for some time now. Peter Liem (in Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla, Manutius, 2012) describes Equipo Navazos as “The most distinctive and unusual project to come out of the Sherry region in … Continue reading →

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