Category: Rants
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 …
Neo-prohibitionists
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 …
England
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 …
England
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 …
General drinking
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 …
Rants
Firstly, I apologise to followers of me on Facebook, you might have seen this already. Secondly, my apologies to everyone who has been waiting and waiting for a expletive-filled …
Rants
Sorry, people who actually read the stuff I put on Facebook – it’s this again. Here is tonight’s rant, my subject: popular illnesses. Now, assume I am sitting behind …