A pal brought me back a bottle of this when he returned from a trip to see his family in Mumbai. I’m not sure what I did to deserve the honour, but I was happy to receive it. I’d never tried Indian wine before, and my adventures in Chinese and Thai wine had not been… Read More »
On a recent trip to Liverpool we had a wonderful time exploring the city. It’s well worth a trip for just one of the cathedrals, but as the song goes “We speak with an accent exceedingly rare, if you want a cathedral we’ve got one to spare”, and a short walk along Hope Street connects… Read More »
Cry Freedom! This Grande Liberte is so named as it’s the first wine that the wine maker has made under his own label. Whilst the family has been producing wine for the local co-op for 100 years, this one is intended to stand on its own. It comes with a nice back story of local… Read More »
It’s summer in England, or at least it was on Thursday, today there’s pouring rain and just a little bit of flooding, but that’s not so unusual for a British summer. There’s been plenty of rainbows in the sky, which makes being cold and wet a little more tolerable, they don’t help much with the… Read More »
I enjoyed Majestic’s Lady Sauvignon from Chile, and as this wine had the same label artist I thought I’d give it a go. Once again, my tendency to be won over by label art is not something that I’m proud of and not a strategy I’d recommend to others … but it’s so pretty. I… Read More »
This wine looked at first to have a cheery butterfly covered label, then I got to thinking the butterflies all look pinned down, like those creepy butterfly collection boxes with the dead butterflies in, then when you look closely, the butterfly bodies are photos of humans, with the butterfly wings drawn on. It’s super creepy,… Read More »
It’s still August, I can still drink pink wine with pride. I’ll drink pink wine in January, but I’ll be a bit discrete about it. Pink wine is my one weakness. There’s plenty of roses out there, and lots of them are good, just so long as you steer away from things called “blush” or… Read More »
The weather is turning colder, the nights are drawing in. It’s still August so I’m hopeful of warmer days ahead before winter really sets in. It’s not quite time to crack open the full rich reds, but it is time to start thinking red wines. This Mont Pierre Fitou from Sainsbury’s was sitting in the… Read More »
I’ve had a couple of bottles of this wine, and I was a little disappointed with the first, but I think that was my fault, as the second was much better. I have lots of prejudices (prejudi?) about wine, what I think I’ll like and how I think I’ll like it. They normally work in… Read More »
When I hear “Ventoux” my first thought is always the Tour de France stage, rather than the appellation. Unlike most wines, I get to see the slopes where this wine is grown on TV every year, and it goes past much slower than most Tour de France countryside. The Mont Ventoux stage is brutal, and… Read More »