Opened a bottle of Nicolas Potel’s Nuits St Georges 1er Cru Roncière this weekend with a little trepidation. Red Burgundy’s one of those wines where I always have a back-up bottle of something different on-hand just in case of a bad hair day. But on this occasion, it was just […]
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I’m not going to direct you to the Decanter web site for the latest piffle about the St Emilion classification. You’re grown up, you have a computer, go and find it yourself. But I will print the list of ‘Related Stories’. Normally on the Decanter news stories, there are a […]
St Emilion classification – yawnus maximus
Raft of wines to get through this afternoon, some good, some not WHITESCavit Alta Italia Pinot Grigio 2008, Valdadige, ItalyThe label’s rather drab, but this actually smells of something beyond the bland, a good start for any PG. Gentle, peachy style, with a waxy, nutty core, it’s not earth-shattering, but […]
Tuesday afternoon selection
Loved this comment on the weekend’s football from Yahoo’s Early Doors team – “Chelsea’s FA Cup sixth round win at Coventry was so completely lacking in drama that ITV would have been better off showing 90 minutes of Tic Tac adverts.” The gist of an entertaining article was that while […]
It’s a wine of two halves…
I just love bad translations. Fans of the genre will no doubt be aware of the splendid Engrish.com, but this gem (I’ve actually stayed there) shows that places closer to England can come up with equally entertaining gobbledy-gook. Tomorrow I’m off to southern France for a couple of nights, to […]
Languedoc Linguistics
Highlight of a sedate weekend was a bottle of this wonderfully weird wine from eastern France. I mentioned the idea of ‘Yeah But No But’ Wines in this post and this blend of Chardonnay with the local grape Savagnin is most definitely one of those. Some people will loathe it, […]