Sometimes I really feel like this
5 January 2010
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Is this really the government’s domain to meddle in?
5 January 2010
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I’m just reading an article on the Daily Telegraph about the new food strategy that is being cooked up by the loony, control-freak government in Blighty. It is pissing …
Do people not realise that I like good wine?
5 January 2010
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My father sent me these two bottles that he had picked up in the gift shop at his local stately home. Obviously, when I opened the parcel I thought …
A good excuse to drink fizz
4 January 2010
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Today marks the eighth anniversary of the partner and I moving in together; eight wild but happy years. Seems a good excuse for fine Champagne. Grand Annee Brut 1996, …
No matter how right you are that is no excuse to be irritating
4 January 2010
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Book review: Liquid Memory – why wine matters by Jonathan Nossiter We were given this book as a christmas present. Written by the director of the film Mondovino, it …
Four years on
3 January 2010
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We tasted this wine almost four years ago. I said I’d like to come back to it in 5-10 years but the partner has popped his bottle after merely …
Those Australians make everything these days
3 January 2010
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Rather than making a thick, sweet liqueur Muscat with this Barossa fruit, Two Hands have made a light, sweet, fizzy wine. Given the miniscule amounts of pleasure I have …
The year at Elitist Review
2 January 2010
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Normally at this time of year I’d be bragging about how vaguely popular Elitist Review is and indulge in some stat-porn. However, I changed hosting providers in March and …
Top pizza in Brixton
2 January 2010
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Sometimes you really want a pizza. It would be easy to just swing by a branch of La Porchetta, London’s best pizza chain, but we decided to try somewhere …
Two brilliant bottles of Volnay
2 January 2010
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We braved to cold today to go and visit our friends James and Katie. They have a three-week old baby (who is quite cute) so we thought they would …