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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
Another weekend of foraging in the cellar and finding some Alice in Wonderland-style bottles that had ‘Drink Me’ written (invisibly of course) all over them. I last tasted the Mission Vineyards Reserve Syrah 2002 from the Gimblett Gravels in Hawkes Bayin autumn 2005. Then, I said ‘drink up to 2009’ […]
A Mission to the Judean Hills
Just back from three days in France, and a mound of work and clutter to deal with. After the sun of the Languedoc, it was a bit of a shock to wake up at home this morning with a smattering of snow on the car. After tasting ~400 wines from […]
1855 revisited, and the Wine Wasteland
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, […]
Pierre Overnoy 1999 Arbois Pupillin
Now I know that the Robert Mondavi Winery in California isn’t exactly this year’s news. But that’s part of what I’ve liked about the wines. Where there are some Californian reds that seem to want to out-brash people with their opulence and sophistication, the Mondavi style – having blazed the […]