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Owen, there was no offence intended. It was meant as a compliment.
Is your picture of portrait of Madame Clicqout?

Most wines you find in shops outside Portugal are from the Douro. Thus I'm always happy when I spot a non-Douro wine. This one is from the "civilised supermarket". It's a blend of Aragonez, Syrah, Alicante Bouschet and Touriga Nacional form the Alentejo, made in a lagar and matured for nin...

djewesbury wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:We have gone from Top Gear to translations of Rilke. At least one must be off-topic, because they cannot be the same topic.

You're right, of course. The thread should be renamed Cultural Studies.

Good suggestion. Or we might name it "A place for the Highbrow"

Have you ever tried Heine? Of course, Marx was a fan. But I've never got round to him myself. Heine is a good suggestion. He wrote intellectually sharp satire, which I think Owen will like. In addition to that, he wrote a lot of prose which is easier to translate than poetry. By the way: somehow Ow...

i thought I would take advantage of the hiatus in this cultural thread to introduce a cultural concern of my own which I was originally going to address to Andre only. But on consideration I think I should throw it open to all comers. How should I approach the poet Rilke? I have an anthology, with ...

AHB wrote: medium weight but full-bodied

A very fine tasting note that makes you want to have a glass too. One question though: isn't "medium weight but full-bodied" a contradiction?

But SFE could simply use the old GC stock for blending into other SFE Tawnies.

Does the discontinuation only apply to VP or to anything GC makes? They make (or made) a good 10 Year Tawny as well. If I remember correctly, the last GC 10 Year Tawny I saw in a local shop was bottled in 2014. So this might be a clue that they still make wines at the lower end of the scale.

djewesbury wrote:David Cameron thinks he's a 'talent'. How are you spelling that, Dave?

I think Clarkson has "A Talent to Annoy", though I fear that this joke is an insult to Nancy Mitford.

Owen, did you wear a grey morning suit with a top hat during your visit or is this just a cliché reserved for Ascot?

LGTrotter wrote:I should like Julian to expand on tradition, Hobsbawm and all that sort of thing.
I have opened a Blandy 10yo Malmsey and am all ears.

I think Hobsbawm would have opened a red wine. For political reasons...

How long did you decant this one?

That's an interesting report. You really seem to prefer Bordeaux over Burgundy.

When I was in my early twenties and not yet into wine, I pictured myself on a Caribbean beach, sunshine, blue sky and water, lying in a deckchair sipping banana daiquiri (made with fresh bananas, not with banana juice). I think this was inspired by the opening scene of "Our man in Havana" ...

Perhaps you could try one of each before you decide which size to buy.

It's good that you brought your own port to Simpson's. They charge an arm and a leg for their ports there.

We curmudgeons meet every sunday afternoon in the park. And it looks like this:

Gunderloch is a VDP-producer from Rheinhessen (although they don't use the VDP grape eagle for marketing this wine). This BA is a blend of Müller-Thurgau, Gewürztraminer and Riesling. It was fermented and matured in stainless-steel vats. The grapes came from the whole Rheinhessen region, which is un...

A fellow Riesling lover. Very good! Please post more TNs of the Rieslings you try.

Hm, a rosé (still or sparkling) is something I never took a liking to. For me it's the wine world equivalent of sitting on the fence. Owen surely is a very open minded man.

LGTrotter wrote:
But I will never quite get over it, how sharper than a serpent's tooth...

Alvada *sigh*

Perhaps you should look at my penchant for Alvada like this:
I would be a cheap guest. You could make me happy by giving me Alvada, while you drink a 20Y Terrantez.

A Deuxième Cru of Margaux. D +0h: cork comes out completely intact, not so much deposit in the tea filter or the bottle as one might expect of a 19-year-old wine, smells of blackberry and raspberry D+1,5h: dark as ink, yet at the rim already quite cherry red, smells intensively of blackberry, smoke ...

I just wanted to give Owen an opportunity to guess so I just threw in a name.

Leo Butler?

I tried the second bottle yesterday evening and it was not corked: D:+0h: quite some deposit in the filter and in the bottle, corks breaks into two parts, smells of fat blackberry, D+2h: purple red, at the rim cherry red, smells slightly of raspberry, yet more of smoke (that is developing more into ...