You all drink in pubs don't you? Reassuringly expensive . . .Ah . . . A while back I mentioned something about only buying very local wines, as far as Portugal I recall. This is no longer possible. Excuse: Body. I fear I do not have the dough to chase local corper. I know that there are French and indeed German wine w/ very rich textures big on body but great German wine tends to be more expensive that great French wine and I don't want to pay the Earth for wine. It is, after all, just wine.Ah . . . Oz it is. And a move to Cab Sauv from our usual Shiraz. There is something crazy rich about Oz wine is there not. I assume it's the iron-rich soil.Any thoughts on Oz wine?
Actually last night's big red was S. African, not Oz. That was mid afternoon's tipple . . . Besides, it's summer now in the Reich. Well, barely spring for you Englanders (and probably winter still in N. Wales). For m'self and Nibs it's shorts silken thong and t-shirt muscle vest; BBQ's along the river and in the parks, and usually the time zee frau starts buying whites and I turn to weißbier (and some serious steiner training).Apparently the local summer habit is to make weißweinschorle (white and sparkling mineral water) so stand buy, there'll be opportunities ahead to minesweep a (undiluted) Riesling or two
. . . Cuvee Marquis de la Tourrettes . . .
I've been sworn to sobreity for a least one week.
and of course, that last bottle in every cellar, the Amaretto
Quick shout for anyone online early. Need to find an Italian red as a birthday gift (cab sauv preferably). Any knowledge? Probably pay €15 which should get a great wine, here in the land of the free.Fraudini & I are particularly fond of all thing Sicillian, so that's what I'd normally err towards.
'Er indoors picked this up for (see label) €4.99. Can't find a reliable online price but people are biddling €47 for 6 bottles on ebay. So we did OK I think. Nicely austere, I assume Joe approves. Kinda woody/pencil shaving-y/tannin-y w/ a hint of cassis and if I'm not mistaken, nubile bitch-ling on heat. Scooby Fucking Doo!I do I do. 4.99 for 2001 Graves, Houdini, you're becoming an easy man to dislike.