Quelques vins fins fortifiés, plus tôt.
(Plus a mock exam of 15yo Bual, 12yo Oloroso and 10yo Tawny.)
What a treat!
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Our Portfolio tasting in London yesterday, I was too busy to taste most wines however I did taste La Grande Annee 2014 - Exceptional - New Port’s from Taylors 50 year golden Age tawny sublime and the launch of Very, Very Old Tawny for HRH - exquiste
and I missed Anthony Hamilton Russel masterclass 40 years of Pinot noir - Anthony brought 1 bottle from 3 left at the cellars of the 1981- missed that too…
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Château La Garde 2012
Visiting my mum for a few days, so I’d arranged to go for dinner with my best mate tonight. She’s been feeling unwell for a day or two, and today it was obvious we’d have to cancel the table. Luckily my sister had said that if Kell weren’t well enough to go out, I should come round to theirs and then go to the movies with them. Until she rang this afternoon to say my brother-in-law had tested positive for COVID (he seems to be OK luckily).
So I popped a bottle I had here, a minor Château I’m very fond of, adjacent to Latour Martillac which is a personal favourite. Deep garnet colour, nose of cassis, tobacco and Earth. Lovely sweet cassis and red fruits on the palate, grippy tannins, it’s midweight and lacks slightly on the mid-palate. The fruit is lovely and hints of liquorice , the tannins are earthy with tobacco scent, it’s a very fine and enjoyably tasty mid-rank claret without the power of the best. The tannins are surprisingly grippy for a 10 year old minor château from a middling vintage, but work well with the fruit.
Nice quiet evening with the rugby and wine, must get some better glasses for here, I’m too clumsy to swirl this well without a drenched shirt.
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Looking for a bottle of white to go with roast chicken I found this bottle of white St Joseph ‘Les Oliviers’ 2001 by Gonon. Unfortunately it is madirised 
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I cooked a roast for Sunday lunch and chose this excellent (and great value) 10 year old Errazuriz Max Reserva Syrah to accompany. I’m currently finishing off the bottle as I type this. Yum…
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Been a member for a short time as a full blown audiophile and now Naim disciple and spotted this thread on wines and I’m after a little help.
Now please don’t laugh as I am not a wine expert by any stretch but whilst on a cruise a few years ago with the British arm of P&O my partner and I decided to do a wine tasting session organised on board the ship. We tried various wines whilst in the company of wine guru Olly Smith.
Now we’d already picked our favourite red on a previous cruise - that being a Californian wine from Sonama by the name of Cannonball which I have managed to source on the internet.
But at this tasting we also tried a very nice to us Moscato from Little Eden. Now initially I was again able to source this nice little refreshing wine - I know there’s probably millions out there that are better but we like it but I can’t seem to find it now!
Does anyone know if it is still available and where one might be able to find it as it seems to have disappeared?
Many thanks gentlemen hope you may be able to help?
Blimey Pete that’s rough.
As a younger man in the UK I did have occasion to drink Blue Nun once in a while. 3 quid as I recall. It was hock or liebfraumilch or something similar and it was disgusting.
It did, at least, have the good manners to contain alcohol so possibly a step up on what you received. That could only be worse if the label said white wine “drink”.
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Shocking - bad memories with that sh#te
I think Pete there was another one just as bad
“Cold Duck” I believe it was called
Undrinkable even though I did
Cold Duck, now there’s a blast from the past. Turned me off a wine for years, a truly horrible drink.
When we were in our early 20s most of our girlfriends drunk the stuff, it and Mateus. Yuck.
What did you do to offend them so much?
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We have a empty bottle of the original on display in a cabinet as a standing joke.
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Mateus Rose - I’d forgotten about that one - it’s still available ha
Yes and a lot cheaper than in the 80s.
It’s wonderful to look back and see how the Australian and New Zealand wine industries have developed
Excellent stuff out there now
Thank heavens cause they stuff they use to import or produce was rubbish. Remember the Moselle in cardboard boxes, vino clapso.
Indeed I do ha ha 