There’s yet another debate on Tom Cannavan’s wine forum about Scoring Systems for wines. And for me, once again it’s shown just how out of touch with normal people some wine geeks can be. Is anyone apart really interested in just how long you can still taste a wine for […]
Simon
Tonight, the family and I have been Moonraking. No, nothing to do with Roger Moore attempting re-entry, nor with the rather potent winter ale from John Willie Lees. I’m referring to the annual Slaithwaite (pronounced Slough-it) Moonraking Festival, which takes place every February half-term. According to the event’s web site, […]
Moonraking
What do the following have in common…? Verdicchio di Matellica ‘Terre de Valbona’, Cantine BelisarioSauvignon/Semillon ‘Mangan Vineyard’, CullenGevrey Chambertin, Domaine Taupenot-MermeJurançon Sec ‘Cuvée Marie’, Charles HoursPinot Gris, Mittnacht FrèresVouvray Moelleux, Clos de NouysRiesling Erstes Gewächs, Schloss VollradsSoave Classico ‘La Rocca’, PieropanManzanilla La Rubia, ValdiviaCondrieu Les Grandes Chaillées, Domaine du Monteillet […]
The Winery, Burton-on-Trent
Any wine-loving illustrators out there? Andes wine is holding a competition (details here) to try and find the world’s best Wine Comic. The UK isn’t exactly awash with comics on wine – it’s supposed to be a serious topic, dear boy – but in some Far Eastern markets, one of […]
Wine Comics – any talent out there?
I’m doing a tasting this evening for the Saddleworth Wine Circle. It’s an organisation that’s evolved out of a night school class I went to when I first got interested in wine in the late 1980s, and there are still a number of the members who still go from that […]
Quinta da Lagoalva Late Harvest 1995
Revisited the the three reds I opened yesterday, with mixed success. Even after 24 hours, Anakena’s 2006 Ona red blend and the Errazuriz 2002 La Cumbre Shiraz are still too boisterous and fruity (with that tell-tale, rather raw, even charred blackcurrant pastille character). But the Cuilleron is singing. Or at […]