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This is why we drink Burgundy (and why we don’t buy ZH)
Alsace

This is why we drink Burgundy (and why we don’t buy ZH)

2 August 2009 4 Comments
Earlier tonight we ate reasonably well and had some truly mind-bendingly good wines. This is what life is all about. One wine, however, disappointed. Shame, Olivier Humbrecht, shame! Brut …
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Recipes

Pork cooked with lentils

1 August 2009 No Comments
This worked a treat with the added flavour-enhancing ingredients, so I’m posting the recipe. It is a dead-easy dish to knock up. To make it you will need: 1.5Kg …
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Elitist Review is four today
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Elitist Review is four today

1 August 2009 No Comments
I started this website four years ago with rant and a 1632″]Burgundy (what else) tasting note. Alas I have not kept count of the number of wines I have …
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Fast food

Mangal 1 Ocakbasi – no ‘bab-tat here

31 July 2009 No Comments
Sometimes you really need a kebab. We wanted the best Turkish kebab London has to offer, so we trekked to the other side of Town to get one. We …
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I hope this works
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I hope this works

30 July 2009 1 Comment
I’m cooking up some pork with lentils for a dinner party on Saturday. The recipe calls for boiling them in water, but we can do better than that. I’m …
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An Alsace 2007 that blows my socks off
Alsace

An Alsace 2007 that blows my socks off

30 July 2009 No Comments
I suppose some people would think that the world’s best Gewurztraminer would be even more pointless than the best Muscat. I disagree. A wonderful, fruity, floral Gewurz can be …
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Lovely limey life
Germany

Lovely limey life

29 July 2009 No Comments
That acidity may hurt, but it shows that you are alive. Alive and enlightened if you are drinking this. When I was a beginner in the field of German …
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Chicken in cider (again, but better)
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Chicken in cider (again, but better)

28 July 2009 No Comments
Yesterday I made a much-improved version of my chicken in cider recipe. Regular followers of whatinterests.davidstrange.net will have seen some blurry pictures of it cooking and on my plate. …
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This is just Morey enough
Burgundy

This is just Morey enough

27 July 2009 2 Comments
My first taste of this Morey-Saint-Denis producer. I like Morey a lot, and this will do just fine as a basic offering. Morey-Saint-Denis ‘En La Rue De Vergy’ 2007, …
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Another good Alsace 2007
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Another good Alsace 2007

26 July 2009 No Comments
OK, it is a bit more minor than the Muscat, but we enjoyed this with a lot of pleasure. You cannot really go too far off the path if …
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