Category: David’s diatribes
Rants
At the beginning of October we are travelling to the Basque country. We have been there before and it is one of the best places for eating in the …
Rants
When I first got into wine as an enthusiastic youth I used to have a bit of a thing for Australian wines. I would hate to classify all Australian …
Drivel
It suddenly occurs to me that I’ve been keeping this blog for a year. I’ve had some great wines during this time and pleasingly few nasty ones. Long may …
Rants
As part of the humorous ‘taste crap wines’ weekend that included the quite worryingly disgusting Blue Nun we also purchased a bottle of Frascati. It was quite an expensive …
Rants
Guest columnist Peter Palmer laments the passing of a good breakfast at English bed and breakfast establishments. Remember the days when a stay at an English Bed and Breakfast …
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I leave for Burgundy at the crack of dawn tomorrow, so there will be no more entries until I return. I am really not sure I can be bothered …
Drivel
There will not be many, or probably any more, entries this week as I am completely out of wine. If I can manage to freeload a bottle from the …
Drivel
I’m currently drinking a bottle of Bandol La Tourtine 2001 from Domaine Tempier, even though it is 15% I really like it. Tempier has long been my favourite producer …
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I was only planning to go to three or four tastings when in Burgundy in July. I have contacted Domaine Arlaud, Domaine Roulot and Domaine Roumier to make bookings …
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I was just looking at my wine database, specifically the distribution of regions and the varietals of all my wines. This is the regions distribution: Here are the varietals: …
