Month: January 2010
Champagne
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, …
Books
Book review: Liquid Memory – why wine matters by Jonathan Nossiter We were given this book as a christmas present. Written by the director of the film Mondovino, it …
Loire
We tasted this wine almost four years ago. I said I’d like to come back to it in 5-10 years but the partner has popped his bottle after merely …
Australia
Rather than making a thick, sweet liqueur Muscat with this Barossa fruit, Two Hands have made a light, sweet, fizzy wine. Given the miniscule amounts of pleasure I have …
Site News
Normally at this time of year I’d be bragging about how vaguely popular Elitist Review is and indulge in some stat-porn. However, I changed hosting providers in March and …
Fast food
Sometimes you really want a pizza. It would be easy to just swing by a branch of La Porchetta, London’s best pizza chain, but we decided to try somewhere …
Burgundy
We braved to cold today to go and visit our friends James and Katie. They have a three-week old baby (who is quite cute) so we thought they would …
Cider
I’m currently drinking a glass of ‘Premier Cru Suffolk cider’ from Aspall, it is really rather good. What is even better about it is that it is currently on …