There are few greater pleasures in the world than Test Match Special. My idea of utter bliss is sitting in the shade on a summer day with Aggers & co on the radio, a cryptic crossword on my lap and a bottle of chilled Riesling within reach. Huddling under the covers on a freezing London night with the headphones in comes a close second. Especially when we are winning. By loads. In Australia…
Posts Tagged ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’
Mar
01
Tasting Château Haut Brion – Cabernet Sauvignon the ‘King’ of Grapes
By Caitlin Ferguson, vinotecalondon.wordpress.com/
The star
Last summer, I wrote my final WSET Diploma exam, consisting of two parts – a blind tasting of 12 wines, followed by 3 hours of theory. The theory section was particularly daunting, considering you know you could be faced with questions regarding ANY aspect of the global (still) wine …
Feb
12
A fine wine afternoon
By Gal Zohar
Haut Brion Horizontal
Some lunch breaks are better than others and some are really special. Last Wednesday I was amongst the lucky few who found themselves seated in our boardroom turned serious wine tasting space. The special occasion was an horizontal wine tasting of the 2004 vintage from Chateau Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion. A …
Nov
25
Go ahead punk, match my Deakin
More than ever I find that my friends and I are thinking about the vagaries of food and wine matching… so much so that I even presented on this very topic at the Rambling Restaurant last Thursday (poor people…). Well first of all I think it’s a pretty inexact science. It’s the (newly) famous 10:80:10 rule – 10% of matches will be disastrous, the …
Oct
07
Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon – a beautifully ageworthy wine
A week or two back we had the pleasure of Wayne Stehbens’ company for a day as he shoe-horned a spectacular tasting into the middle of a family holiday to Europe. The tasting coincided with the launch of the 2005 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. Here are some brief notes from the wines tasted that day:
We started with a horizontal tasting wines from the 1995 …