In keeping with last week’s post by Gareth, which highlighted the genius blog that is Chateau Petrogasm – describing wines with images, amazing, I love it! – I thought I would bring you this week’s wine of the week in the Chateau’s fantastic style. A little homage to the Petrogasm team…
Posts Tagged ‘catena’
Nov
06
Catena Dinner at the Lansdowne
The blog isn’t here to sell you stuff, but every once in a while something comes along that we just can’t help recommending. Well, the wine dinners in the newly refurbished upstairs dining room at the Lansdowne pub are just that. So Random Bottlings heartily exhorts you to get yourselves down there for the next installment of the series.
It features Bodegas Catena Zapata, probably Argentina’s finest and most famous winery. It’s been a big year …
Aug
11
The King is dead…long live the Mayan King
Mexican food in the UK used to be the gastronomic equivalent of cheap, dodgy porn. It would start off enticing, colourful and full of TexMex promise, but would end up leaving you feeling a bit cheap and used. Too much melted cheese and rich sauces. Salt strewn everywhere and a brick sitting in your stomach.
But not any longer. The ‘Demolition Man’ vision of Taco Bell has also been …