I realised yesterday that I’d written something without really explaining what I meant, so here’s my chance to put it right. I’d gone on a bit about Ant being a fan of picking New World wines as opposed to me who seems to be picking Old World wines. For those of you who haven’t the …
As I said all week, it’s not a wine I know a whole deal about. So as much as I’m really looking forward to giving it a go, I’m slightly guessing when it comes to the food pairing this week. So it times of crisis, it’s time to go with what you know.
Before you start reading, don’t worry yourself. It’s not going to be another geography lesson. I’ll keep it mercifully short (hopefully). You might have to put up with a bit of geology, but sod it, you’ll just have to live with that. Today’s post is about why the Loire is a great place for Cabernet …
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As I said yesterday, it’s one of those that I don’t expect many of you have heard of before. Two reasons really. Firstly when it’s used in blends it’s usually one of the supporting players. Secondly, when it is on its own, it’s usually labelled under one of the French AOCs such as Chinon or …
Following on from a very successful and well received week last time out with German Riesling, we’re keeping with European wine this week, and going for a French red. And it’s probably not a French red that you’ll have tried much of before on its own.
Well, in a word, fantastic! Maybe I just got very lucky with the three different wines that I had, but if it was purely down to luck then I’ll hop off and get my lottery tickets for the week before it runs out.
I’m trying to work out what we’re celebrating this week. This is our first bubbly of the year, so there’s got to be some kind of celebration happening surely? Well Ant and I did actually meet in person last week, and spent some good time chatting about all things wine and Liverpool Football Club. That’s …
