Category: General drinking
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 …
Burgundy
Lunch yesterday stretched our fine wine fetishes from distinctly lovely experiences to downright perverted twistedness. Is not that what fine wine collecting and drinking really is? An intense perversion …
Burgundy
The supreme aesthetic experience is something that is sadly meaningless to a large proportion of the population. Sad it is because the visceral, emotional, intellectual thrills that can penetrate …
Egomania
People giving points to wine is admittedly such an easy target to destroy it is like going dynamite fishing in a barrel. Additionally, I am sure I have raged …
