It’s funny, as I’m comfortably inside my fourth decade on the planet those hangovers are getting less and less forgiving. A great friend was over from Norway this weekend so on Saturday we followed him around Soho and ended up in a pub called De Hems. 4 hours of Belgian beers later and Sunday became …
#NWTW Week 18: What Did I Reckon to Lebanese Red? Read More »
Hmmmm. You know I’m really not all that sure what to write here. I haven’t drunk much of the stuff to be fair, so there’s two ways I could actually have something to say here…
I was wondering whether to start this post with a load of quotes from all the 1,000 year BC Israelite prophets that you can find on Wikipedia, but not to worry, the feeling has passed. I think I’ll just crack on by repeating what Ant had mentioned in his post this week. Lebanon is one …
I have to say I’m loving doing New Wine This Week. I think before this week I’d had maybe one or two Cabernet Sauvignons from Coonawarra way, and probably just passed them off as a nice drop that I wouldn’t mind having again once every now and again. It’s when you actually make yourself sit …
#NWTW Week 14: The Verdict On Cabernet Sauvignon From Coonawarra Read More »
Before I start going off on a different idea all together, let’s just make one thing clear. If you like your steak, then just have one. Nicely grilled, not too well done. A dollop of butter to baste it. It’ll be superb with such a big wine like this. For me though, I fell in …
#NWTW Week 14: Food Pairings Cabernet Sauvignon From Coonawarra Read More »
If you’ve been following either myself or Ant on twitter this week you’ll have seen how many people are lovers of this wine. I haven’t seen Ant all week, but I can hear him giggling with glee in anticipation of popping some corks this week. And rightly bloody so. As I said in an earlier …
#NWTW Week 14: What Should Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Taste Like? Read More »
Australia’s vineyard areas are pretty much exclusively towards the south coast of the country. To be fair it’s where near as damn it most of the people are too. You ever been to the Northern Territory? Size of UK, France, and Spain put together and the population is something daft like 200,000, of which 150,000 …
#NWTW Week 14: It Helps If You Know Where Coonawarra Is… Read More »
Well Ant’s really gone for the go big or go home tactic this week! We’re going for one of the New World classics, Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra, which is down on the Limestone Coast in South Australia.
As we’ve said earlier on, Pinotage is still being tested and tried around a few different vineyard sites to see what the best spots will be. They’re getting there but they still don’t 100% know. At the minute though there tends to be roughly two styles, one light-bodied, the other full-bodied. Best thing to do …
#NWTW Week 8: What To Expect From Pinotage from South Africa Read More »
Most wine drinkers in the UK will have had a bottle or two from Chile. Over the past 10 to 15 years they’ve absolutely nailed the export market with low cost, solid quality wines. Lots of investment in the 1990s in both production and the governing laws has led to a really smooth system to …
