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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 27, 2020 18:30:09 GMT
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Post by Humph on Dec 27, 2020 19:22:12 GMT
May as well enjoy it, it's sort of Christmas after all !
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Post by Rob on Dec 27, 2020 19:28:43 GMT
I hope it's not a disappointment. The most I'd spend on wine is maybe £12.99 but plenty that are drinkable for a lot less than that. £32 seems a bit much.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 27, 2020 19:45:04 GMT
I used to buy Chateau Musar for Christmas, until it got "discovered" and the price rocketed.
It was discovered through work and a joking challenge with the patron of Hassop Hall Hotel ("Lebanese wine?!) so he brought the table a bottle, and said it would not hit the bill if we didn't like it.
We paid (and for the 2nd bottle!)
It's 2 or 3 times the price now, however, allowing for inflation, so rather an extravagance.
This bottle is from my daughter, who we last saw on an outing where we, but not her, also ended up at Sharpham (who own Beenleigh Manor as well), so it has connections.
It came with a Sharpham cheese (very nice) and a bottle of Sharpham fizz which retails at more than the bottle in question, so I have another "Yorkshire anthem moment" coming.
...the pressure...
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 27, 2020 19:46:37 GMT
I hope it's not a disappointment...... ...it's wine......  |
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Post by Humph on Dec 27, 2020 20:29:33 GMT
When we lived a a tiny hamlet in the back of nowhere in the Scottish Borders, one of our handful of neighbours was a well known food and wine journalist.
He was often invited to new upmarket restaurants and hotels in the hope that he would write something good about them. Usually, they would also gift him a decent bottle or six to encourage him to remember them well. Resultantly, over the years, he accumulated a fair old stock of really very good wines.
He and his wife became good friends over years we lived there, and it was always a treat to be invited to dinner at their house. They really knew about food and drink.
Anyway, when we left to move away to Cheshire, he came round to wish us well with a really special bottle of red ( dashed if I can remember what it was, it's almost too painful to try ) and instructed us to drink it one day and think of them.
Some weeks later, having just about settled into this house, we had decided to go out for dinner and my mother in law had volunteered to babysit our then infant son.
We returned from our evening out to find that not only had she drunk the special bottle, but had mixed lemonade into it because she found it a bit "sharp"...
I just about managed not to tell her.
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Post by Avant on Dec 27, 2020 22:49:20 GMT
Oh, the injustice. Plonkers deserve only plonk.
I suppose it's a consequence of the climate getting warmer that there are more English reds around than there were. If anyone is near the Glos / Herefs border, Three Choirs at Newent have a very good red (at least I think so: I'm no expert).
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Post by dixinormus on Dec 28, 2020 0:03:26 GMT
Wow! I have never heard of anyone ever mixing red wine with lemonade?! 🤮. White wine with soda water possibly, but...
But I do recall a Slovenian/Croatian concoction of red wine mixed with orange juice when on holiday 30-odd years ago. Gulp. Or not...
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Post by WDB on Dec 28, 2020 7:30:24 GMT
“You took my Petrus ‘05. And you mulled it?”
From the best BBC Christmas surprise ever.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 28, 2020 14:04:04 GMT
....well; It was an........erm........."interesting" bottle. Not quite what I expected from a bottle of Cab/Merlot, it was more akin to a Pinot Noir*, but not quite, if you know what I mean. Loads of cherry, not a lot of tannin, very dry, and with a little bit of body. *I'm not a great fan of Pinot Noir; it's generally rather too much cherry for me (though a good one, drunk on a warm evening in Burgundy, can certainly just about hit the spot). So, this particular wine doesn't get an enthusiastic thumbs up from me, and only slightly more from SWMBO. It is an experience though; You're always going to pay a premium for "decent" English wine, given the difficulties of cultivation and the low yield, but this one wasn't quite there. As an aside, I posted on here in January about passing on a good quality Yamaha cassette deck to my walking buddy's brother-in-law. It had a delayed journey there, but I was rewarded in August by a bottle of red Hertfordshire (or at least the environs of St Albans) wine - to be drunk chilled as a rosé. It was thus drunk, and it being very hot in August, it went down a treat. About half the price of the bottle in question, but rather more enjoyable (for me, at least). I've unfortunately lost the details, though at the price it's still another that won't feature in my regular drinking anyway. So, that just leaves us with the (overpriced?) bottle of Sharpham English fizz with which to toast Saint Nigel of Farage on Brexmas Eve.  |
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Post by Humph on Dec 28, 2020 14:58:35 GMT
>>Brexmas Eve...
I was coerced into taking "her" to a retail park today. I know, but I simply couldn't come up with a feasible excuse quickly enough. Anyway, at least there's a Halfords there, so normally that's an OK place to mooch around, but even there, there's nothing much on the shelves to intrigue. Bought a gallon of screenwash and a GB sticker. The latter because my Euro style number plates are probably out of date as of the end of this week, and I don't want to forget to get one next time ( my God when will that be ) I take the car across the channel. Now safely installed along with the hi vis waistcoats and useless pack of bulbs ( my car is all LEDs ) under the boot floor on the assumption that it'll be required sometime.
All exciting stuff eh?
It had snowed here a bit this morning. English snow, 2-3" at most and soggy, but it still seemed to be causing a bit of concern to some.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 28, 2020 15:05:52 GMT
When Espadrille and I were courting we went to Paris for the weekend. At an Italian restaurant I looked at the wine list and spotted a bottle of something red I knew was very good for a sensible price. The problem was that Espadrille didn't drink red wine.
I made a deal with her. Try it.. If you don't like it I'll never ask you again to try red wine.
She has drunk red wine now for over 25 years...
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Post by Humph on Dec 28, 2020 15:09:58 GMT
Good effort that, amazing she manages to function normally if she's been leathered for 25 years...
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 28, 2020 15:21:10 GMT
...... if she's been leathered for 25 years... 😉 ....mind you, if she's been married to Esp that long.............. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 28, 2020 17:54:07 GMT
As an aside, I posted on here in January about passing on a good quality Yamaha cassette deck to my walking buddy's brother-in-law. It had a delayed journey there, but I was rewarded in August by a bottle of red Hertfordshire (or at least the environs of St Albans) wine - to be drunk chilled as a rosé. It was thus drunk, and it being very hot in August, it went down a treat. About half the price of the bottle in question, but rather more enjoyable (for me, at least). I've unfortunately lost the details, though at the price it's still another that won't feature in my regular drinking anyway. ...Out of curiousity, and to exercise my brain cells, I chased this down through my memories. It was a Wimbushes St Albans red, and though I can find listings for whites and rosés (Out of stock) I can't find anything for the red I had. The Vineyard is elusive as well, but a bit of oblique tracking (previously) found a large property named Wimbushes, on the edge of St Albans, which appears to have a small vineyard in its grounds. goo.gl/maps/PQv7K3oZgRPcv1zD8St Albans, eh! Who'da thought it. As you were! |
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