Category: David’s diatribes
General
I really hate salad, they are generally incredibly depressing. Worst of all are those salads one finds in minor English restaurants and pubs: limp iceberg lettuce, half a tomato …
Site News
Thanks to my neighbourly friends at co:edit, Elitist Review has a new homepage. It is a very good piece of design, I am sure you’ll agree. It is certainly …
Jokes
I have just ordered another bottle of Pommard Premier Cru to drink over the up-coming weeks. This reminded me of when I visited Domaine de Courcel in the summer …
Site News
Yes, it is yet another blog about food, but hopefully one that will amuse and entertain anyone who feels like dropping by. This is a personal site, with the …
Site News
I suppose I just have too much time on my hands, but after a very polite and charming email asking if Elitist Review was a family of sites I …
Rants
One of my favourite philosophers wrote a paper in a philosophical journal, the paper was called ‘Relativism is absolutely false’. Not only is this hilarious, it is also right. …
Rants
Sometimes I worry that my tastes are somewhat narrow. I like French wine, Burgundy most of all, and a few villages in particular. I’ve written up four Domaine des …
Site News
elitistreview.com is a very personal site, I did not put it online expecting a lot of visitors. Yet, this month I’ve apparently had over three hundred unique visitors, many …
Rants
Whilst drinking this Riesling from Boxler my thoughts turn to how much I love Riesling. It is just such a versatile grape, from dry, linear excitement, via rich, fat …
Rants
Of my rather minimalist achievements this year some of the best have been to get on the private clients’ list of a few producers. On my visit to Alsace …