Elitistreview is twenty years old!
1 August 2025
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Happy 20th anniversary, Elitistreview!
Happy 2025 from Team Elitistreview
31 December 2024
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2024 is at an end! Sadly, a year of reduced drinking (due to me having a back infection and taking antibiotics for most of it). Moreover, I end the …
No opiates tonight
10 December 2024
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No opiates for me this evening because it is fine wine time! Ow… I say ‘fine wine time’, but when my Apple Watch roused me from my afternoon torpor …
A fun birthday dinner party
23 November 2024
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Yesterday was my birthday – I am even older. We hosted two lovely friends for dinner in the evening; what fun we had! Thank you both for your wonderful …
Beautiful but youthful juice
27 October 2024
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I originally posted this short review of Rall Ava Syrah 2021 on the terrific Tom Cannavan’s Wine-Pages, as pain is keeping me from writing the usual interminable essay about …
By ARSE this is good Cabernet
24 September 2024
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Le Riche Reserve Cabernet 2021
Even better quality South African Pinot Noir
3 September 2024
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Crystallum Pinot Noir Cuvée Cinéma 2023
Quality South African Pinot
1 September 2024
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Crystallum Pinot Noir Mabalel 2023
Aggressive Austrian
12 August 2024
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Prager Riesling Smaragd Ried Klaus 2022
Oh bloody hell
8 August 2024
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Oh bugger, my back...