Owen, there was no offence intended. It was meant as a compliment.
Is your picture of portrait of Madame Clicqout?
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- 22:18 Tue 17 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Jeremy Clarkson
- Replies: 68
- Views: 56607
- 01:21 Sun 15 Mar 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2006 Herdade dos Grous
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2374
2006 Herdade dos Grous
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...
- 15:25 Sat 14 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Jeremy Clarkson
- Replies: 68
- Views: 56607
Re: Jeremy Clarkson
Good suggestion. Or we might name it "A place for the Highbrow"djewesbury wrote:You're right, of course. The thread should be renamed Cultural Studies.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.
- 15:24 Sat 14 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Jeremy Clarkson
- Replies: 68
- Views: 56607
Re: Jeremy Clarkson
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...
- 00:15 Sat 14 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Jeremy Clarkson
- Replies: 68
- Views: 56607
Re: Jeremy Clarkson
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 ...
- 23:32 Thu 12 Mar 2015
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Warre LBV
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2954
Re: 1994 Warre LBV
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?AHB wrote: medium weight but full-bodied
- 22:44 Thu 12 Mar 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Gould Campbell
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18009
Re: Gould Campbell
But SFE could simply use the old GC stock for blending into other SFE Tawnies.
- 22:20 Thu 12 Mar 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Gould Campbell
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18009
Re: Gould Campbell
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.
- 21:39 Wed 11 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Jeremy Clarkson
- Replies: 68
- Views: 56607
Re: Jeremy Clarkson
I think Clarkson has "A Talent to Annoy", though I fear that this joke is an insult to Nancy Mitford.djewesbury wrote:David Cameron thinks he's a 'talent'. How are you spelling that, Dave?
- 23:41 Tue 10 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Cheltenham
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16773
Re: Cheltenham
Owen, did you wear a grey morning suit with a top hat during your visit or is this just a cliché reserved for Ascot?
- 00:23 Mon 02 Mar 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: What shall I open?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 38397
Re: What shall I open?
I think Hobsbawm would have opened a red wine. For political reasons...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.
- 23:45 Thu 26 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1998 Warre Cavadinha
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1959
Re: 1998 Warre Cavadinha
How long did you decant this one?
- 00:44 Sun 22 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: Berry Bros in Belfast
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3717
Re: Berry Bros in Belfast
That's an interesting report. You really seem to prefer Bordeaux over Burgundy.
- 00:28 Sun 22 Feb 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Where are you?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7431
Re: Where are you?
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" ...
- 22:34 Thu 19 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 70cl or 75cl?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5085
Re: 70cl or 75cl?
Perhaps you could try one of each before you decide which size to buy.
- 00:38 Tue 17 Feb 2015
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Chris Doty et al, in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, 15 Feb 2015
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14725
Re: Chris Doty et al, in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, 15 Feb 201
It's good that you brought your own port to Simpson's. They charge an arm and a leg for their ports there.
- 23:41 Sun 15 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: NV Bollinger Rose
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3818
Re: NV Bollinger Rose
We curmudgeons meet every sunday afternoon in the park. And it looks like this:
- 15:17 Sun 15 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2012 Gunderloch Messidor Beerenauslese
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1988
2012 Gunderloch Messidor Beerenauslese
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...
- 01:16 Sun 15 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2012 Max Ferd. Richter Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2219
Re: 2012 Max Ferd. Richter Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kab
A fellow Riesling lover. Very good! Please post more TNs of the Rieslings you try.
- 00:41 Sun 15 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: NV Bollinger Rose
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3818
Re: NV Bollinger Rose
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.
- 16:09 Sat 14 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: NV Barbeito Malvasia Reserve 5 Years
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2266
Re: NV Barbeito Malvasia Reserve 5 Years
Perhaps you should look at my penchant for Alvada like this:LGTrotter wrote:
But I will never quite get over it, how sharper than a serpent's tooth...
Alvada *sigh*
I would be a cheap guest. You could make me happy by giving me Alvada, while you drink a 20Y Terrantez.
- 15:58 Sat 14 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 1996 Château Rauzan-Gassies
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1784
1996 Château Rauzan-Gassies
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 ...
- 22:01 Fri 13 Feb 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1821655
Re: One quiz at a time
I just wanted to give Owen an opportunity to guess so I just threw in a name.
- 21:43 Fri 13 Feb 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1821655
Re: One quiz at a time
Leo Butler?
- 15:32 Thu 12 Feb 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2000 Lacoste-Borie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3004
Re: 2000 Lacoste-Borie
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 ...