Five apsidal locations
27 February 2026
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Davy reports on fine drinking with fine friends at Restaurant Cornus.
Category: England
Happy Christmas!
25 December 2025
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Wine Society's Exhibition English Blanc des Blancs Late Disgorged 2018 is less expensive Ridgeview
Black Chalk Paragon 2020
18 May 2024
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Black Chalk Paragon 2020 is a bloody brilliant Hampshire fizz
Lunch with Alex and Charles
20 December 2021
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Ten days before Christmas 2021 Team Elitistreview hosted Charles and Alex for a light lunch. They were very forgiving of us forgetting to put our lunch roast chicken into …
Exton Park Blanc de Noirs Reserve Blend 28
20 October 2021
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Exton Park were The Editor’s and my introduction to quality English sparkling wine, you can read my surprise at finding Exton Park to be so good here. Since then …
A visit to Black Chalk
14 October 2021
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The Editor and I visited Black Chalk yesterday (8th October 2021, the day before their harvest began). It was indisputably the most enlightening, educational and god-damn enjoyable tasting we …
I despise very nearly all rosé
27 July 2021
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Let us not mess around, rosé is rubbish*. With bubbles it can be nice, but as a still wine? I have some beer over here I need to finish …
The Trouble With Dreams is too much oxygen
28 March 2021
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I am taking a break from my series on South African wines to review The Trouble With Dreams, an English sparkling wine by Dermot Sugrue. The Trouble With Dreams …
Christmas drinking 2020
27 December 2020
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A brief report on the wines consumed by The Editor and I over the Christmas holiday. Christmas Eve Hunting Hill Vineyard Chardonnay 2018, Kumeu River Lovely restrained, nutty, savoury …
Elitistreview’s 15th anniversary celebration
1 August 2020
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Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of Elitistreview! What a great milestone! How I have managed to keep it up I will never know, especially considering how rubbish some of …