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My son’s a big Star Wars fan, and also loves Chinese food. So he’ll be delighted to hear about something I’ve just been informed of by Jolly Olly Smith – the Chop Saber… Available in different colours depending on whether your role model is Luke Skywalker, Yoda or Darth Vader, […]

The forks Luke, don’t use the forks…

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Happened to mention on Twitter today that I was eating home-made pork scratchings. We all have our vices, and although it’s years since I bought one of those strange small square bags from behind the bar, pork scratchings still have a corner (a small one) of my heart. I’d never […]

Scratching around for descriptions

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Just added four Spaniards, two Portuguese and two Aussies to the First Taste section (they’re all here). Currently sipping one of my favourites from the new additions, the 2006 Coca i Fitó Montsant, and thinking about whether full bodied red wines need to be ageable in order to be considered […]

Shirley Temple wines

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Not sure how they’ve managed to do it but Majestic has got hold of a parcel of wines from four Constellation wineries – Bay of Fires in Tasmania, Houghton in Western Australia, Ravenswood in California and Flagstone in South Africa – and are selling them at prices that will doubtless […]

Fill yer boots – New World madness at Majestic

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aa, It’s not necessarily the wines that come to mind when you think of particular wineries. Take Howard Park, for example. It was one of the first producers to show that great Western Australian wines weren’t the exclusive preserve of Margaret River, and the Rieslings and Cabernets made in the […]

Cricket, 3-legged cats and green pepper

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