Category: David’s diatribes
Drivel
I was only planning to go to three or four tastings when in Burgundy in July. I have contacted Domaine Arlaud, Domaine Roulot and Domaine Roumier to make bookings …
Drivel
I was just looking at my wine database, specifically the distribution of regions and the varietals of all my wines. This is the regions distribution: Here are the varietals: …
Rants
I cannot believe how debased the art of baking is in this country. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few decent bakeries in London, but if you go …
Rants
On our trip to Calais we visited a huge hypermarket, of its ninety-odd aisles about five were filled with wine. The selection appeared to suffer from what I have …
Rants
Australian wine makers often say, “I make my wine with ripe fruit”. The insinuation is that European wine makers don’t use ripe grapes and so make weedy wines. I …
Drivel
Every year since 1953 Oxford and Cambridge universities have competed in a blind wine tasting competition. I was in the Oxford University team about a decade ago. We never …
Rants
In response to my post Burgundy is best someone commented that Burgundy at the bottom of the pile is not as good as Bordeaux for the same money. I …
Drivel
Someone has found this site with the search terms ‘lewd yet interesting’. Oddly, I am vaguely flattered by being Google’s tenth best source of information on being lewd yet …
Rants
I opened a bottle of wine with the neighbours last night. No note I am afraid, I was not feeling up to it whilst drinking. The neighbours enjoy wine, …
Rants
I’ve said this before, but there is no harm in saying it again. Recently I’ve had a few heroic wines that I’ve quite liked, the Morgat Savennières and the …
