Category: Rants
			
			
							
					        
                         Burgundy
        
        
                    
                A lament about red Burgundy based on a tasting of 2021 Burgundy by Clark Foyster Wines            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         General drinking
        
        
                    
                This post is the 1,600th published on the excellent, exquisite Elitistreview, and to celebrate Opus 1,600 I am going to indulge in a little perversion of mine. I only …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Buying recommendations
        
        
                    
                Some things make wine more of a pleasure – friends, food, Riedel glasses – and these are to be encouraged. Other things make wine less pleasurable. Chief amongst the …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         South Africa
        
        
                    
                The more perceptive amongst you, my dear, highly-valued readers, may have noticed I have reviewed a lot of South African wine in recent times. I am going to try …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Champagne
        
        
                    
                Vintage Gratien Champagne is one of the handful of advantages of being a member of the Wine Society as they are the UK agent and no one else sells …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Sub-interest wine
        
        
                    
                The owner of Tillingham Wines (who shall remain nameless, see next sentence) claims he wants to champion English minimal intervention wines. On the basis of these two wines I …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Rants
        
        
                    
                This is largely the text of a comment I put on the accursed Facebook. I have slapped rouge and lipstick on the relevant parts of it and I am …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Rants
        
        
                    
                This is the one thousand-five hundredth post I have published on Elitistreview – if I lack anything in reasonableness and balance I more than make up for it in …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Rants
        
        
                    
                People have started bragging how virtuous they are by having a ‘dry January’. Virtuous, my arse! It gets on my sodding tits. It is all part of the neo-prohibitionist, …            
                    
                				
							
					        
                         Champagne
        
        
                    
                If you want to know where I sourced this bottle of fizz from or if you do not know what a Special Club Champagne is, head to the end …