Category: General drinking
General drinking
The last week has been a rarely-paralleled delight. Last Tuesday I finally had my Spinal Cord Stimulator implanted and what a success it has been! Spinal Cord Stimulators are …
General drinking
I pick some favourite wines I have drank in 2023.
Buying recommendations
A sample of the excellent wines on show at the Clark Foyster portfolio tasting.
General drinking
This post is the 1,600th published on the excellent, exquisite Elitistreview, and to celebrate Opus 1,600 I am going to indulge in a little perversion of mine. I only …
Champagne
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 …
General drinking
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 …
Alsace
On Tuesday night The Editor and I hosted our lovely friend Richard for a dinner party. Unusually for us, it included no German Riesling, but we had plenty of …
Rants
People have started bragging how virtuous they are by having a ‘dry January’. Virtuous, my arse! It gets on my sodding tits. It is all part of the neo-prohibitionist, …
Burgundy
The idea was to try a few wines of greater maturity than I normally open and save a bit for The Editor and I and our enlightened guests to …
Burgundy
How lovely it is to visit friends! Our chum Peter (Swedish expression) violently visited our other chums James and Katie during one of his rare visits to Blighty and …
