These antipsychotics do not kick in instantly (bums) and blow me if I’ve gone caught some trivial but irksome physical illness as well. I need hearty food and hearty booze to sustain me. Turns out my online supermarket had a deal on Fonseca Guimaraens – hooray! Beef is being braised and I am being boozed [...]
We haven’t been drinking vast quantities over the festive period, so what better way to get really newscasted on New Year’s Day than a bottle of Port? Taylor’s 1975 may have seen better days, but provided pleasure. Drinking this on 1st January 2012 allowed us to toast the good health of all 36 (and a [...]
Part two of my report on the Ile d’Amour larks is about the red wines. Edward has a bit of a thing for Claret, which my long-term reader will know I view as over-priced, over-hyped and just so god-damned dreary. But I liked the two he popped (hmmmm… liked? Perhaps ‘endured with a smile’). The [...]
The local ‘priced like Harrods’ shop in our development had this at a very reasonable price. I think a bottle of port is a hilarious thing to be drinking of an afternoon. Vintage Port 1997, Dow’s An explosive nose of powerful fruit which has a hint of softness from age. It is a rich, heady, [...]
We had a dinner party last night which was not entirely successful. Our guests brought some lovely wines, but most of the stuff I opened was either awful or downright weird. Riesling Serriger Schloss Saarsteiner Kabinett 2005, Schloss Saarstein Still a bit yeasty on the nose. It had some good fruit and acidity, but not [...]
Two magnums of Port! Hooray! Good Port, too. 2003 was a great vintage for Port and who could possibly sniff at Taylor’s and Fonseca? Now all I have to do is hope I last long enough for them to be ready. I’ll need some help to finish magnums of Port so I hope all of [...]
Lovely people and good friends, the neighbours. We seem to have been following each other across London for quite a while, now. I greatly appreciate the gifts. Fonseca Guimararens 1988 A pure, refined nose of pure blueberry fruit. It smells very elegant for Port. No shortage of concentration, though. There is elegance and refinement on [...]
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