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 ‘wine of the week’
Aug
26
d’Arenberg The Money Spider Roussanne 2008 (McLaren Vale, Australia)
Woop! It’s a Bank Holiday weekend. Boo! It’s the last one until Christmas – and that is officially a long time away. Nevermind, after last week’s meteorological pessimism, today I have decided the glass is half full…
Aug
19
Chateauneuf du Pape Domaine Grand Veneur 2008 (Rhone, France)
Once again Shakespeare is spot on. I’m off to God’s Own Country next week for a spot of fishing, walking, swimming, eating and quite probably rain watching: the weather forecast is awful. Instead of one last hurrah for a glorious summer, it may be time to dig out the woolies.
Aug
13
Springfield Estate Wild Yeast Chardonnay 2006 (Robertson, South Africa)
I remember a young South African winemaker not long out of university swirling and sniffing a glass of Springfield Estate Wild Yeast Chardonnay and telling me that the way it was made contradicted everything he was told to do at school. “This is how not to make wine,” he told me “and I love it.”
Aug
05
Chateau d’Esclans Esclans Rosé 2008 (Provence, France)
Everyone loves rosé especially when it is sunny. And there are so many styles around, from syrupy Californian numbers that taste like the boiled sweets to the wonderfully alliterative posh, pale Provencal numbers. You can go cheap (and quite possibly nasty) or you can splash the cash on a £70 bottle. Can you really spend £70 on rosé? Amazingly, yes, you can…
Jul
29
Mar d’Amunt Carinyena 2007 (Emporda, Spain)
When wine trade folk get together you can be certain of one thing: there will be far too many bottles on the table. Everyone brings more than they could possibly consume and still remain sensible…
Jul
21
Stonier Pinot Noir 2008 (Mornington Peninsula, Australia)
Yesterday, a winemaker friend of mine from South Africa sent me a link to a fabulous blog post. It was a “Dear John” letter written by an American wine writer to Pinot Noir. Blake Gray laments to his former beloved that “I still love you, and I’ll probably always love you. But you’ve changed since we met, and I can’t ignore it anymore,” bemoaning the fact that Pinot just doesn’t taste like it use to.
Jul
14
Domaine La Croix Belle Syrah 2009 (Cotes de Thongue, France)
Ah, the 14th July: Bastille Day. Look out for a patriotic breakaway in this afternoon’s Tour de France stage as one of the natives goes for glory in the sunshine on France’s national day. At the end, he’ll crawl out of the saddle, drape himself in red, white and blue at the finish and gleefully spray the supporters with some of the country’s finest fizz. All will be well with le monde…
Jul
07
Sijnn Red 2007
I first tasted Sijnn (pronounced ‘Sin’) red at the Bibendum Times tasting at the Saatchi Gallery back in January but had to wait until our Bloggers World Cup Final to have another crack. It was a star performer for the South African team, impressing the judges with its spicy, savoury Rhone-esque style…
Apr
22
We tasted many good wines at our Bordeaux 09, an exciting vintage indeed. But amongst all the big names Château La Prade stood out both for its quality and mainly for fantastic value it offers. The 2006 drinks perfectly well now and deserves to be your own private house wine.
Château La Prade, with its 4.3 ha of old vines planted on chalk, has very …