Excellent couple of wines this evening
Greywacke Pinot Gris, love Pinot Gris and this is stunning example
With Steak sandwiches Gusbourne Pinot Noir, just slightly chilled
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Label says Marlborough new zealand
Kent’ Gusboune IMO are one of the finest English wine makers, they produce small amounts of still Pinot most of the Pinot is used for the sparkling wines, from memory this vineyard was called boot hill, but now not all tye grapes come from there now,
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There are a few MW/MS characters in the world: Eric Hemer, Doug Frost, Ronn Wiegand, Benjamin Hasko, (and there was the late Gerard Basset, OBE). I’m pretty sure that’s it.
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Here are our Christmas wines. Served with Prime Rib, Roast Potatoes, honey and OJ carrots and yorkies followed by sticky toffee pudding! Boxing Day for most on this chat but Merry Christmas all and best wishes for a healthy and happy 2026!
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Christmas day wines, love Menetou-Salon prob even more than Sancerre, lovely produer Henri Pelle from his single vineyard perfect wiith Smoked Salmon
Chablis with Turkey, IMO Daniel Dampt one the best producers, Grand Cru Vaillons, again one of my fav vineyards
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We use an app called VinoCell which allows a search by a range of parameters including maturity, provider, grape etc. It also has a coloured bottle graphic by each entry showing whether it needs keeping, drinking or is going past its best. Used it for years now without any problems. It cost a few pounds to purchase if I recall correctly. The website makes it look quite complicated but we keep each entry quite simple and tailored to our needs.
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On the day there was some Moët to begin, then onto the reds to accompany turkey: Tour de Bonet 2014 and Lynch Barges La Chappell 2022. Nieces and nephew preferred the former. The latter was pleasant but loaded structure, but it’s made from young vines. There was a 2011 cantegril to match the Stilton. When did it slip from Sauternes to Barsac?
St Stephen’s Day, order of the day was duck. CVNE Rioja 2011, a little dull but very quaffable. The star was this …
I used to visit Rust regularly when I lived in Bratislava in the early 90’s. I took some wine loving friends back in the early 0’s where we picked up a number of wines, this is the last from my favourite producer (lovely family too). I also prefer the ruster wines, although the rieslings are exceptional.
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This Brunate Barolo improves with each year. Interesting combo of tastes. Light tobacco and vanilla with raspberry and a hint of anise? Tannins still present. Paired with an orzo pasta with chicken, sun dried tomatoes and plenty of fresh basil made by our future daughter-in-law.
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My best friend popped in on Saturday, the first dinner guest since I moved in a couple of weeks ago. (I’m currently at 75 packing boxes left to open, so my living space is limited.) A couple of lovely Italians went well with lamb chops casseroled in red wine.
Tignanello 2014
Lovely youthful ruby colour, the nose is great with cassis, plum and a hint of tobacco. Great structure on the palate, the tannins are still youthfully firm and the acidity is good, lots of cherry and blackcurrant fruit, cedar/vanilla tannins and some herbal notes. Lots of powering the palate, and good length, a really really lovely drink.
Ornellaia 2001
Dark garnet in colour, deep for a wine approaching its 25th year. Glorious nose, cherries, berries, chocolate, earthy notes. Nicely softened tannins and a healthy slug of acidity frame real complexity, sRk fruits, cassia, plum, hints of blueberry, great savoury flavours, mushroom, coffee, earthy and mineral tones. Lovely length on an amazingly beautiful wine, perfection now, but has a good 14-20 years left. The Tignanello was a fantastic drink, for both of us it was outshone by the Ornellaia. (Bit unfair as the T was just reaching its youthful drinking window while the O had reached full maturity.)
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Thank you for the recommendation. I purchased the app and imported my cellar which worked well enough but I can‘t for the life of me understand why it shows the number of wines I originally purchased instead of the number still stored in my cellar after some have been drunk. Any workaround?
Glad to see you’ve managed to unpack the claret jugs Eoin!
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This isn’t a problem I’ve encountered, sorry. When you say you ‘imported’ your cellar, did you do it from an external file? We just populated ours case by case as we had no previous tracking system. When we mark one as drunk, it gets moved into the ‘gone’ section. I can’t see anything in the user manual that suggests a solution either. If you do mark a bottle as drunk and remove it from the cellar does the app deal with it as it should? I understand the support is very good but it’s one of those things I know would irritate me until I worked it out for myself. Sorry I can’t be of more help given it was my recommendation.
Thanks this was very helpful. I did as you suggested and the app works fine. Something went wrong with the logic during import but I can fix that easily enough 
That’s great. Glad you got it sorted.
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Friends coming for NYE dinner tonight and this is the line up
Heidsieck Monopole Premier Cru (‘Blue Top’) for blinis and smoked salmon
A magnum of 2016 Trimbach Riesling Reserve for the scallops
Gonon St Joseph 2013 to have with venison loin and dauphinoise
Chateau de Pitray ‘Madame’ 2014 for the cheese
There is a bottle of 2000 Monbazillac intended for a Tarte Tatin but it was way past its best so I slung it
Happy NYE everyone and I hope you have some enjoyable wine to see it in!
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Hope you’ve got a lot of scallops 
HNY!
There’s 2 of us and we have 3 scallops each 