Following on from my cat and dog post a few days ago, thought I’d see how couple of New World wines were coping with middle age. Neither was from a particularly warm region, so I thought they stood a fair chance of still being in reasonable nick. First up was […]
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Tonight I’m on blind tasting at its most extreme. Found a bottle lurking in a corner that has no label, capsule or name on the cork. I’m pretty sure it’s from the Languedoc, as it’s awash with fragrant, gentle, herb-strewn fruit, with a hint of old leather. I’d hazard a […]
The Blind leading the Blind
…but sometimes a wine comes along that you open in the morning and keep coming back to ‘check on’ and suddenly find that come tea-time (tea in the northern sense of the word, being the evening meal, served at any time from 4-7pm) there’s not as much left in the […]
I’m supposed to only taste wine during the day but…
My thanks to my mate Nadim for passing on this from this month’s British Psychological Society’s monthly research digest: Practising describing wines could help you become a connoisseur “Hmm, it tastes peachy, gutsy, with a pinch of wild berries,” the wine connoisseur says after swirling the Chiraz [sic] round her […]
Not just flowery prose
Anyone who’s been to more than a handful of wine tastings knows that they should be gentle with the eau de cologne and after-shave. But while most adhere to such a rule, they seem to forget that there are other aromas that linger. This came home to me most recently […]
Flagrant, not fragrant
Sad news that week that two of the wine world’s more interesting winemakers have died. Didier Dagueneau, the wild man who took Pouilly Fumé to another dimension, was killed in a microlight, while Bailey Carrodus, the quiet but passionate founder of Yarra Yering, also passed away. A couple of years […]