An accurate pie-chart
5 November 2008
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And the best Cornas is?
3 November 2008
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The results of my ‘Best Cornas’ poll are here. OK, a total of eight votes doesn’t really qualify as popular acclaim, but Clape is clearly the most popular. I …
Roast chicken refined
2 November 2008
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I’m roasting a chicken, one of the excellent organic Sheepdrove Farm chicken that Waitrose sell. I am using a slight variation on my fool-proof recipe I posted back in …
Quality Pinot not from the magic slope
2 November 2008
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Sealed with a glass stopper this is not going to be corked. Good, it is delicious. Central Coast Pinot Noir 2005, Calera Not that it means much, but this …
Silky Pommard
1 November 2008
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I am a big fan of de Courcel wines, even though Yves Confuron, the wine maker, is a bit of a curmudgeon. This is particularly fine. Pommard Premier Cru …
Un-rated Cornas
1 November 2008
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When posting my poll of the best Cornas producers I missed out on mentioning M. Vincent Paris. Should I have included him? Read on… Cornas “Granit 60 Vieilles Vignes” …
Five wines from around the web #21
31 October 2008
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Pouilly-Fuisse “Vieilles Vignes” 2005, Chateau-Fuisse: Pouilly-Fuisse that ages well. Definitely worth snapping up. The note here. £25.80 from Tanners. Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos “Betsek” 1999, Royal Tokaji Wine Company: …
Surely we all knew this anyway?
29 October 2008
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Researchers at Oxford, that home of high-quality science, have new data which supports what all right-thinking people would know anyway. Namely, vegetarians and vegans suffer from greater shrinkage of …
A bottle of real Crozes
26 October 2008
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From the only affordable producer of Hermitage comes this little cheeky delight. Crozes Hermitage “Cuvee Gaby” 2004, Domaine du Colombier A really refined nose of complex fruit and charming …
Bastard control-freak Labour government
24 October 2008
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OK, this story comes from the Daily Mail, so cannot be relied upon, but if it is true then I am totally appalled. We are told that supermarkets will …