Rhône
I associate a degree of beetrooty reduction with Burgaud and this knowledge didn’t lead me astray when blind tasting this wine. I nailed it. Cote-Rotie 1997, Bernard Burgaud The …
Germany
I was not going to bother writing up this utterly delicious wine, but Peter ‘The Kid’ Palmer tells me I must. “People need to know”, he says. Riesling Auslese …
General
I’ve got a bit of a thing for boudin noir, black pudding and the like. They are clearly very good for you, look at what a healthy person I …
Burgundy
Sorry. It is nearly half-one in the morning. Right, hot tips from the bargain village of the Cote de Nuits (the whole area is named after this village, surely …
Burgundy
From me to me obviously. Cavon de Bacchus is a great place to go shopping when you are in Nuits. The hot tip from Burgundy is to buy Nuits …
Germany
After me bad-mouthing this producer (possibly un-necessarily, we’ll see if/when the wines come good) my chum Jeremy gave us this to try. Riesling Kabinett Trabener Gaispfad 2007, Weiser-Kunstler This …
Jokes
But I found this to be very funny:
Egomania
My old photoblog at whatinterests.davidstrange.net was all very nice, but sub-optimal in many ways. Also, the webcam software for my phone stopped working after a ROM upgrade… Rising up …
Germany
Sometimes Dr Loosen wines just seem a bit simple, sometimes they seem like they will not age, but when you buy the right stuff in the right vintages by …
Other
We have just been to France and liberated a batch of wines. We thought these two would go well with roast beef. Recently, I have been reminded that relativism …