Category: Sub-interest wine
Burgundy
Yesterday I had the great pleasure to dine at Hawksmoor, London’s best meat restaurant, in the company of some engaging and entertaining chaps. Many thanks to Guy Dennis for …
Champagne
I scored a bunch of 2009 Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Riesling Kabinetts and I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast them. Peter was in Town so he came along …
Burgundy
The 2005 example of this wine was quite a charming little drink so I felt quite safe buying some of the 2006. My first taste of it repels me …
Burgundy
Last night we popped around the neighbour’s place with a couple of bottles of wine; they couldn’t have been more different. Morey Saint-Denis 2002, Domaine Dujac Oh what a …
Australia
We were supposed to be having a little vertical of Annie’s Lane Clare Valley Shiraz at Hawksmoor tonight. Somehow, our hosts managed to forget them when heading from horrible, …
Burgundy
I’m normally happy to pop a bottle of Morey-Saint-Denis wine, but this is far from one of the most pleasing examples I’ve had. Morey-Saint-Denis Premier Cru Faconnieres 2005, Virgile …
Other
My father sent me these two bottles that he had picked up in the gift shop at his local stately home. Obviously, when I opened the parcel I thought …
Burgundy
When discussing the day’s wines via text messages I have been reminded that Vincent Dancer makes wines for enjoying sooner rather than later. I wonder if that is the …
Burgundy
It has been a mixed day for wine. Oxidised Sorg and Weinbach (bloody Inedit 2000 of all things, I was vexed) started things off. This was followed by winemaker …
Loire
I have a lot of happy memories of Huet Premier Trie wines from the late eighties and early nineties, this just doesn’t seem to live up to those memories. …