Category: Wine
Burgundy
Given my youthful visage and playful attitude you may be surprised I was born almost forty years ago; my birthday party is in November. It’ll be a quiet little …
Drivel
At Elitistreview we move with the times and are always happy to embrace new technology – you may recall us publishing our organ on Google Currents. Well today we …
Burgundy
My exhortation in the title is both a reference to how I remember this wine caressing me on my last taste of it and also a plea regarding the …
Italy
Do not like Riesling? You are mad. Do not like Moscato? Christ… Well, do not worry, when they let you out of the secure ward (I can suggest some minimally …
Austria
Austrian wines… Phew! One thing is sure and that is that the pork in cream sauce-noshers like them as heroically proportioned as their lunch servings. Certainly with whites, delicate, …
General drinking
The 2012 German Riesling tasting by Howard Ripley shows that I could well be out of a job. Virtually all the wines I tasted were of an extremely enjoyable …
Germany
It is a good job I have got over the dream of being a winemaker. Partly because it will never happen, but mostly because it is a total bastard …
Burgundy
The other day I had one of the greatest meals of my life. A dinner marked by profundity of flavour in food and wine. If I may, I will …
Burgundy
Continuing my report on when Mr Greg came for lunch I’ll tell you about a couple of stunners. Our main course was a leg of Oxford Sandy and Black …
Alsace
On Friday we were happy to host at Elitistreview Towers a friend, Mr Greg the plastic surgeon, I’ve know for 26 years – we were at Oundle School together. Apart …