Category: Food and Drink

Like the last french wine, I have no idea of the variety. This one is not what I was expecting – for starters the cork was none to happy with life, but did not seem to impact the wine negatively, but a bigger surprise than that was the level of fruityness, and boldness – must…

This French jobbie is a subtle but very nice drop of Red. I highly reccommend it!

Continuing the theme of reviewing wines well after drinking them, this will be a somewhat waffly not very definitive review of this drop hailing from the McLaren Vale in South Australia! Definate time to get some air into this is ESSENTIAL, but I don’t think it would go much further with cellaring. From what I…

This red hailing from Italy, has been aged 12 months in Oak and hails from the Tuscan region. It is a 90% Sangiovese/10% Merlot , and a perfect example of why you should write reviews of wines at the time you drink them and not a week or two later. While not unpleasent it is…

This is a rather tasty Cab Barbera, which is much nicer the second night out. (Used a vacuum seal jobbie, and left it on the bench avg temps approx 10C). It manages to balance, wood tannins and fruit, with the sulphery flavours all but non existant. Goes well with spicy foods, or rich meaty foods!…

This Cabernet Sauvignon is a passable Cab Sav at present. It does however require several more years in the Cellar to transform itself into a decent drop. I’d reccomend this one with something strong and saucy – french, or italian! M

Two bottles not even worth mentioning in an individual post, so they get one. Watery Sulphury Drain Cleaner Penfolds – Thomas Hyland – Cabernet Suvignon (2003) Yalumba – “vintage” Shiraz (2004) Don’t bother – nuff said!

This port from Hardy’s is rather nice, it has all the right flavours – massive quantities of fruit and ooodles of wood. This is very pleasent after a meal on a cold evening.