Chablis
At Elitistreview Towers we are rather taken with this offering from Domaine William Fevre – we popped a bottle of the 2005 earlier this month and it really delivered …
Alsace
These wines are top examples of two of my very favourite wine styles; Alsace Riesling and Chambolle press my good time-buttons like few other wines. I say ‘wine styles’ …
Fast food
When you try something and are pleasantly surprised by its quality it can result in you examining your prejudices. The mind-buggering stupefaction of rancid-couch-potato sustenance-provider Domino’s actually delivering really …
Burgundy
This wine is made from declassified young vines and sub-optimally located parcels from Mugnier’s monopole Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru Clos de la Marechale – Clos des Fourches being the historic …
Burgundy
There are tales that in days of yore (remember Yore? Lovely girl) at de Montille they had teams of winery workers working in rotation to constantly punch down the …
Burgundy
It is always nice to be given a gift, particularly one that has been well-chosen to match one’s passions. Consequently, I was terribly pleased to be given this bottle …
Buying recommendations
I have long been a fan of O W Loeb, their list has always been packed with high grade kit from all of Europe’s smartest wine-growing regions. What never …
Austria
Chablis can be such a great wine – when they sing they are expressions of Chardonnay at its purest and most thrilling. 2005 was a great vintage and tonight’s …
Burgundy
The gossip is that Nuits-Saint-Georges is currently providing the bargain wines out of the serious villages of the Cote d’Or. With its lack of Grand Crus and slightly unpronounceable …
London
Dear reader, you may recall ‘Non-Stinky’ Jeff’s glowing review of Sunday lunch at the Dial Arch pub in Woolwich. Having been there for lunch today I can only imagine …