By Dan Coward
They say that a day is a long time in politics. Well imagine thirty long days of politics and you’ll get an idea of how ready Australia has been to vote in the general election. Not just because people want to do their democratic duty, but also so that we are spared any more negative political advertising. Both of the major parties have been …
by Gareth Groves
Chateau Petrogasm featured on the old Bibendum blog a long time ago but I had forgotten how good it was until recently when someone sent me a link. It reminded me that it really is one of my favourite wine blogs. I thought it would be worth plugging it again.
The concept is brilliantly simple: rather than using words to describe a wine, it uses pictures. It makes me wonder if language …
by Miss Vicky Wine, http://missvickywine.blogspot.com
So I was going to write about Burgundy, or the Santa Cruz Mountains, and then … when following the beaujolais conversation on the Internet, I’ve started getting scared. Very few beaujolais drinkers seem to understand this region correctly, some drinkers that I can’t blame as they seem to be very badly informed. So from now on, I decided I should write an article a month on the region and …
by Gareth Groves
I like Bordeaux. It’s a brilliant city to visit, the food is great (as long as you like duck in all its guises) and the wine isn’t too bad either. Of course, there is more than one Bordeaux when it comes to wine. At one extreme, there is the Bordeaux of fine Medoc chateaux, stratospheric pricing and investment potential. At the other …
by Rupert Bates
Bibendum’s latest contributor is Rupert Bates, a property journalist by day and keen imbiber by night. In this post, he puts the spotlight on Burgundy with three recent tasting notes…
English couple Su and David Bishop drank in the sights of Burgundy in Eastern France; bought a house between Beaune and Meursault and never looked back. Both in the building trade, they then …
By J. M. Darkly http://www.winewomansong.com/
I love reading wine tasting notes in Italian. I always want to sing it back. For example, what is a vino da meditazione? It’s an intriguing term often seen in Italian wine notes.
It looks like the word “meditation”, but it’s not quite.
Coined by famous Italian gastronome, Luigi Veronelli, meditazione is often used to describe sweet passito wines or …
By Lucy Bridgers, http://winefoodotherpleasures.blogspot.com
I just love this. This is a project that you simply could not make up. For people living in the London area with grape vines growing in their gardens or allotments, a growers’ collective now exists that produces an ‘Urban Wine’ from these grapes.
What’s more, the wine is surprisingly palatable. I have now tasted this delicately hued rosé twice …
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.
by Gal Zohar, http://myhaidu.wordpress.com
Last night I cracked. After 6 long years of resistance it all fell apart. Or, like the King would put it, “6 years down the drain”. I watched Sideways last night.
These were six difficult years. As a sommelier, pretty much every conversation started or ended with questions about fucking Merlot. At first I didn’t get it, then I learned to nod …
by Gareth Groves
Everyone knows blind tasting is tough. It is a vinous minefield that can damage reputations and ego in equal measure. One is reminded of the old Harry Waugh story, when the legendary stalwart of the British wine trade was asked when he had last confused Burgundy with Bordeaux: “Not since lunch” came the reply.
Down at Imbibe 2010 last week, two …
