Author: malliemcg
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Teusner “Joshua” – Grenache Shiraz Mouvedre 2006
This wine (65% Grenache, 25% Mataro and 10% Shiraz) had a fairly alcoholic fruity nose – nothing of much note – perhaps dried apricot. The taste on the mouth was pretty much just tannin’s and dried fruit (apricot slabs). Not integrated, not balanced, not drinkable. Left for several hours to see if it would improve…
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Mr. T and William Shatner – WoW’s their game!
Clips: New WoW Ads Recruit Mr. T and Shatner Some awesome little clips advertising world of warcraft – the Mr T clip is da bomb foo!
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N.V. Cattier Champagne Brut Premier Cru Chigny-l?s-Roses
Nose: Hints of lemon zest on light toast with subtle yeasty notes. On the mouth – initial explosion of fine to medium bubble, followed quickly with a yeasty flavour that is almost instantly replaced by acid and a nice sharp finish. Not too shabby.
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Embedding YouTube Videos as Valid XHTML 1.0, Bernie Zimmermann
Embedding YouTube Videos as Valid XHTML 1.0, Bernie Zimmermann If you’ve experienced the pain of a screwed up page (formatting) after embedding a youtube video – try the page here, very, very helpful! The above saved my site – it took forever to work out why the formatting went all fubar. The code supplied by…
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A pox on the sheep shaggers
Sorry – have not worked out how to cleanly embed video in wordpress – will hopefully work it out soon enough.Nuff saidNormally embedding the code provided by youtube screws up formatting, lets see if this works
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Geeks and Wine?
Are you a geek? If so, would you consider yourself an oenophile (wine lover/wine fan)? Having read? a blog post that suggests that geeks love to get the core of problems, to discover the key to “problems” or otherwise get to the heart of anything that they enjoy doing (games, puzzles etal). I’d have to…
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Tenuta del Barco Palmento Salento IGT – Primativo (Zinfandel) – 2004
This Italian varietal hailing all the way from Italy was a gift from a friend. Phoar, I reckon I’m a pretty good friend. 😉 It seems that the Italian varietal Primativo is also known as Zinfandel (which seems to be somewhat popular in California) the colour is fairly deep purple with somewhat brownish tinges/hues –…
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Kingston Estate – Merlot (2001)
Not expecting much – this is rather rather old for a Merlot, pulled the cork and a bit of a sharp smell permeated the near area for 30 seconds – almost vinegary. Poured into a glass – and getting schwags of black current on the nose and an interesting almost hint of wet lawn. Fair…
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Pirramimma (White Label) – Tannat – 2004
Ooooer, a nice tannic wine, hard to describe due to length of time that has passed since I consumed this one (a habit I am fortunatly getting out of – have about 3 months worth of shelf bottles to get through today). Check it out – won’t appeal to everyone, but if you like Petit…
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Coriole – Chenin Blanc (2005 Racked)
Tasty drop not too sweet for a desert wine though. Been a looong time since I drank this one and can’t remember much other than it being very nice and not over poweringly sweet. A pity that the Racked Semillion is all that you’ll get from Coriole at the moment.