Category: David’s diatribes
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 …
Bordeaux
I’m just engaged in a little exchange of text messages with a chum. He asks if he should buy 2005 Jamet Cote-Rotie for £20 a bottle. Brilliant wine at …
Cider
My last post on the vat of cider the neighbours and us necked last night may not have been entirely transparent. Like wine, cider is a partially spoiled product, …
Rants
In my review of Valvona and Crolla I had a go at the corkscrew issued to our waitress. Just so we can be abundantly clear, the kind of corkscrew …
Drivel
The National Health Service have set up a swine ‘flu helpline. I called it but all I heard was crackling.
