Category: David’s diatribes
Buying recommendations
I keep thinking I should write a ‘hilarious bargains of the wine world’ post for here. Two wines that would feature near the top of that list are Manzanilla …
Alsace
I’ve mentioned before that I am not the biggest fan of Zind-Humbrecht wines, all too often they are booze-tastic monsters. I’ve seen them clocking in at 16.5% in the …
Australia
Yes, yes, it is more of those podcasts; me speaking drivel as it occurs to me. I feel audio notes are quite good to get one’s raw opinion of …
Rants
The chef Gordon Ramsay is in the news. My opinion of his has dropped somewhat since I first went to his flagship joint in Royal Hospital Road. My first …
Rants
Specifically, I am thinking about the availability of quality booze from supermarkets. When I was a fresh young thing, many, many years ago, the drinks you could buy in …
Podcasts
I just thought it would be fun to record me raving about a couple of wines and see if I said anything amusing. I suppose I did in the …
Burgundy
This is an audio tasting note, recorded in the heat of battle. Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru les Pucelles 2005, Domaine Henri Boillot There will be another audio tasting note tomorrow.
Non-alcoholic
I neck about a litre of Diet Coke a day; the anti-psychotics I take sedate me and I rely on caffeine to lash my mind into a less moronic, …
Drivel
Burgundy
Yesterday we were at Lord’s having a whale of a time watching England thrash the West Indies by ten wickets. Ha! We drank some good wine. We started off …