Category: Wine
Burgundy
I don’t drink Beaune wines that often as they rarely engorge my passions, but I got a hot tip that Domaine de Montille were not finding theirs so easy …
Germany
When Willi Schaefer replied in the affirmative to my email asking for a tasting I could have kissed my computer screen. His wines never fail to have me moaning …
Rhône
Jancis Robinson tells us, in her excellent book Vines, Grapes and Wines: The Wine Drinker’s Guide to Grape Varieties, that the grape from which this is made, Marsanne, smells …
Germany
When I was a student at Oxford I used to buy plenty of Muller-Catoir wines, so many that the wine merchant put neck labels on the bottles saying “David …
Rants
Many countries are perfectly happy to swipe the names of fine, usually French, wine growing regions for their pale imitations of the real thing. I never expected the French …
Australia
Lunch yesterday was a real treat for the Elitistreview team. Not only because we were dining at Hawksmoor, London’s best meat restaurant, nor due to the array of ambrosial …
Alsace
The Roulot was fabulous, but I was a touch worried about the Cote-Rotie when first popped. Meursault les Tillets 2001, Domaine Roulot The nose has some buttery richness – …
Australia
The start of the week can be a difficult time, so the Woolwich team decided to ease its passing with a few glasses of wine. Semillon 2007, Moss Wood …
Buying recommendations
It was a great treat to spend the morning tasting through a range of German 2009 wines, so many thanks to Sebastian Thomas of Howard Ripley for inviting me …
Australia
It appears an ’06 made it into our allocation of Mac Forbes, we decided to compare and contrast with the ’08. Pinot Noir Coldstream 2006, Mac Forbes I love …
