Ballast Point Even Keel once again demonstrates that US beers, even if they are brewed in the UK, make for superior drinking. In order to have got beer this good out of the the Marston’s brewery the Ballast Point Brewing Company much have shot all the workers and put the brewery through an autoclave. It […]
Riesling Auslese Eitelsbacher Karthauserhofberg 2009 really rammed home a point for me: the sumptuous, glorious richness of German 2009s. This wine was extremely generously proportioned, with powerful fruit of a melon/lime mix and an incredible density one rarely finds in ‘lighter’ German Rieslings. There wasn’t just scale, though, there was also one mother-grabbing load of […]
This bottle was sent to me by my lovely friend Sean who felt I needed cheering up when I was psychotic, depressed and suicidal a month or so back. What he didn’t know was the one of the drugs I was prescribed back then makes people psychotic and suicidal when they drink even if they […]
lomstercode: Reeve the Baker make some amazing mince pies. These ones are topped with an unfeasibly buttery Viennese whirl, and a generous sprinkling of icing sugar. They are the best ever! He’s right, they are quite amazing mince pies. The power of butter should never be underestimated. There’s one hell of a lot of it […]
Davy’s Birthday Big Bottle Bonanza For those attending my 40th in November you can see the latest arrivals for the party in the top-most picture. The other two pictures show the full line-up of thirteen magnums and four jeroboams for the thirty guests at Davy’s Birthday Big Bottle Bonanza. If you’ve missed the full list for […]
Tonight we decided to have some Wooing Tree Pinot Noir with one of the first Vacherin Mont d’Or’s of the season, the match was terrible, but I’ll tell you about the wine first before we get onto the cheese and silly video. Wooing Tree Pinot Noir 2009 is a top-flight New Zealand Pinot from the […]
I know I’ve done a brief video tasting note of G. D. Vajra Moscato d’Asti, but having just gulped down another bottle I thought I’d say a little more. One of the things you’ve got to avoid in Moscato, and is all too prevalent in the cheap ones, is that they smell and taste of […]
Blondie by Wooing Tree Steaks cooking Steaks a bit more cooked Gorgeous beef Ready to whip off the grill Sreak macaroni and cheese, and Wooing Tree Blondie Latest quickie. The wine we had for dinner at midnight last night was rather unusual: a white (well it had hints of pink) wine made from Pinot Noir, […]
The hand pump of Bengali Tiger real ale. Davy looking happy with strong beer. At the boozer earlier we had this excellent beer Bengali Tiger. At 6.4% (not 6.5% as I reported of Facebook, sorry) it was a real quench and left me feeling most refreshed. Because I’ve finally come off the medication that made […]
Hampshire Cheeses, makers of the brilliant Tunworth cheese, have come up with something new and by arse it is good! Their new creation, Winslade, is modelled on Vacherin Mont d’Or but easily surpasses all but one of the hundreds of them I’ve eaten (and that was when I was very drunk so I could have […]
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