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 as did first-time visitor to casa Strange Guy Dennis. He said he likes this site, which clearly marks him out as a chap of style and taste…
It seems Hawksmoor is our favourite restaurant in London at the moment; it is certainly London’s best meat restaurant. They indubitably delivered the goods when celebrating Non-Stinky Jeff’s birthday, providing wonderful bits of grilled animal. I recommend Tamworth belly ribs followed by a hilariously rare sirloin steak with two fried eggs, bone marrow and macaroni cheese…
Last week a select few of the wine taster illuminati who were at Oxford contemporaneously with me travelled from far-flung corners of the world to meet at Hawksmoor for quality meat, fine wine and, it seemed, a rather large amount of discussion about being a father to a young child…
Daniel’s mother is visiting and we have opened a really good bottle of fizz. To be honest, I’m quite surprised how totally fantastic it is.
Vintage Champagne 1996, Alfred Gratien
This has a powerful cocoa nose, but there is a lot of sophisticated fruit there as well. This certainly smells big, but there is some real complexity and style to it…
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the partner and I moving in together; eight wild but happy years. Seems a good excuse for fine Champagne.
Grand Annee Brut 1996, Bollinger
There is a lot of cold cocoa on the nose, hints of meat and digestive biscuits as well…
Sorry to my international reader, but these Champagnes seemed such bargains I had to alert my UK reader.
Cedric Bouchard has made some of the best Champagnes I’ve had. Inflorescence was amazing, I was stunned by its complexity and purity of expression. It cheered me up no end when I was ludicrously insane…
On our jaunt into the provinces we stayed at Cheltenham’s Hotel du Vin. They had this wine (and Inflorescence) on their wine list for a very reasonable price. It was amazingly brilliant.
Champagne les Ursules Blanc de Noirs ‘Roses de Jeanne’, Cedric Bouchard
The nose has an incredibly livid expression of fruit, lovely pear fruit we feel…
I got this to celebrate the partner’s return to London after two weeks away. He says, “If this is what you opened you cannot be too ecstatic to see me.” I am ecstatic to see him, but this wine is piss boring.
Champagne Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Presidence 2002 Vieilles Vignes, R & L Legras
Bit bready and yeasty on the nose, with hints of… erm..…
Earlier tonight we ate reasonably well and had some truly mind-bendingly good wines. This is what life is all about. One wine, however, disappointed. Shame, Olivier Humbrecht, shame!
Brut Chardonnay 1996, Pol Roger
A wonderful, dense nose of bread and digestive biscuits. Very complex, and just beginning to show a reasonable degree of maturity. That being said, I think this wine will hang around for a while yet…
I’ve been wanting to try this wine for a while, so lunch with my friends seemed like a good time to pop one. The more I think back about this wine the more I worry about the dosage…
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