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Proper pottery tea mug, present from Grandkids.
That cannot be true as if I remember correctly you drink Yorkshire Tea.
Bit like so called wine buffs, my eldest brother never spends less than £30 on a bottle of wine, having tasted the stuff he buys I say give me Wolf blass or Gallo’s Zinfandel any day.
My MD used to buy the management team wine for Christmas. We would each get a case of 12 bottles all different. Apparently they were each of the £25-£40 each range. I don’t like wine and used to give it all away, apart from the occasional bottle we would stick in the slow cooker with beef.
On that I agree derek.
However, I woukd say that i have been lucky enough to drink some relatively expensive wine and some of it was superb, even to an untrained palate like mine. Most of it didn’t taste any different to the cheap stuff to me.
Best wine I have ever had was £5.50 a bottle from Tesco. Can’t for the life of me remember what it was called but I know they don’t sell it any more.
We once went to Calais (1981) we came back with six bottles of white & six botles of red, price 30p a bottle, we also splashed out on a fairly expensive bordeaux, the 30p wines were ok but the bordeaux was horrible. Once had a Beaujolais nouveau taster in Harrods, rather drink dentist’s mouthwash
From the depths of my mind the Tesco £5.50 a bottle was a brand called Ozzo, a fabulous Italian red. Can’t find it anywhere on interwebs.
Beaujolais nouveau and the Bordeaux variants are all what's known as 'old world wines'. They're very highly tannined, very heavy and are suited to a certain palate i.e. they taste like shit. You, like me, are most probably suited to the 'new world reds', the likes of an Argentinian Malbec, Australian Pinot, Shiraz and Cab Savs. Some Californian Merlots might be up your street, too.
And to think Derek called me pretentious for drinking Earl Grey
It's only what Mrs P taught me. She's done basic sommelier training at the Dorchester in Londinium.And to think Derek called me pretentious for drinking Earl Grey
Got to admire her for trying to improve you.
Mrs B has been trying to improve me for years without success.
How can you train to be a wine taster? You either like it or you don’t, Jilly Goulden has made a fortune out of conning people for years, she has admitted that she makes it up as she goes along.
I tend to disagree..if you are with someone who really knows their stuff you can be encouraged to start picking up different flavours if you do the tasting thing properly. It’s surprising how many people pick up flavours when encouraged, in the unlikely event you ever sit down with a group of friends open a decent bottle of red and see what ‘flavours’ people can pick up when they concentrate. Compare to the notes on the bottle and you may be surprised.
I can’t remember his name but there is a guy who could not only name the vineyard that a wine came from but could even say which direction the slope that the vines had been planted on faced. He got it right most of the time.
One of the most frustrating things to happen to me was when we visit it Ed a beautiful bindery in Tuscany, hill top,castle, astonishing views, the works and had lunch and a seven glass wine menu. Started with the stuff they sold to hotels and worked all the way up to their vintage stuff at many €100s.
I was driving.
my brother wasn’t, he drank six glasses of my stuff as well as his own and promptly and annoyingly fell,asleep in the back,of the car.
I was driving.
my brother wasn’t, he drank six glasses of my stuff as well as his own and promptly and annoyingly fell,asleep in the back,of the car.
Never ever have I attended a party where people whilst drinking wine seriously said “hmm, I’m getting a hint of smoked wood infused with a heady aroma of Spaniards arse” & a so called expert chimes in “absolutely correct old chap, the Spaniard was having a craft cig whilst curling one down in the vineyard when he accidentally set fire to the whole caboosh”