This morning the wife and I jumped in the car and headed for a short drive through the mountains. We went to visit a bloke called Paolo who runs a winery and also stocks Lazenne wine luggage. The guys at Lazenne had kindly offered me a sample case to use, and I’d said rather than […]
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I got a tweet a few weeks back from Conrad, the man behind the wine and social media phenomenon that is the Wine Wankers. He was going to be in Piemonte and wondered if I had any tips. After we worked out we’d be here at the same time we arranged to meet up and
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It’s one of the best things about the summer. Villages across the UK, France, Italy, and everywhere else work out a few days in the calendar for everyone to get together for a good old knees up, some good food, and a bit of a gossip. It’s what townies like me go out their way
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I’d like to start this post by asking for help from people. How on God’s green earth do you cook an artichoke??? I popped it in the stew with the tomatoes, olive, and beef shin. I let it simmer away for a few hours, tried it, and it was like trying to eat wood chippings!
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Last year, when I was out in Italy, I started seeing lots of Franciacorta knocking around the local bars. Made up in Lombardy (the region of Milan), it’s a sparkling wine made in the same method as Champagne and Cava. But I hadn’t seen much of it the UK, so was pretty chuffed when I
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In my new line of trying not to get too smashed when I do these tastings, I’m trying just the one bottle this weekend. It’s going to be the TTD Primitivo from Sainsbury’s. This post then is about a food pairing with Primitivo.
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Using IGT as a topic this week is obviously fairly open ended. Every wine producing region of Italy has an IGT (I think except Piemonte) so to ask what we’re expecting to taste is a bit of a funny one to answer. But you know what they say, ask a stupid question…
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Wine labels, for most people, are a pain in the arse to look at. There’s so much information on them but none of it seems to mean anything to the majority of us. Terms like DOCG, DOC, or IGT, and that’s just in Italy! It’s just a long list of letters and numbers and doesn’t
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Before I went in to the tastings this week I was a bit…not nervous, that’s the wrong word…apprehensive. A couple of trusted and respected wine-o’s from the blogosphere had reservations about doing an Amarone week. Their view was that Amarone is amazing if you pay up and get one of the better ones. The “value”
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It’s funny actually. I’ve got an ex-colleague and his family coming round for lunch on Saturday, and that’s when we’re going to have the Amarone tasting. I got a text off him last night, chuffed to bits about it being Amarone week. Well my good man, I hope you like what I’m going to pair
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