Archive of Wine Notes - 21/26 - Spittoon.biz
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Wine Tasting Note: Viña Alarba Garnacha Viñas Viejas, 2005, Calatayud, Spain
Posted on November 4, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesJust like those record review shows where those gathered around the table talk through the tunes they like and remain tight-lipped with a song that grates, this wine just slipped away. Down on the table, a splash in a...
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Wine Tasting Note: Cousiño-Macul Sauvignon Gris, 2006, Maipo Valley, Chile.
Posted on October 27, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesNot something you see much of is Sauvignon Gris, especially from the New World. This example brought in from Chile is the only example I have seen on a shelf. Using the new...
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A Wine for Wagamama’s Chili Beef Ramen – Combinations #7
Posted on October 23, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesCoincidentally just a couple of days after selecting this dish as the basis for Combinations #7 the opportunity arose to eat at Wagamama; of course I selected this dish to see how it is supposed to be. At the...
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PIC Wines Tasting
Posted on October 19, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Tasting Reports, Wine NotesWe arrived late; not conducive to a relaxed tasting especially when everyone else is slurping on the dessert muscat and are well settled into the whole event. Traffic held us up. But forging on we managed to slurp and spit...
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Combinations 3: Flatbreads with Spiced Chicken, Pistachios and Roasted Peppers.
Posted on June 26, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesBegun as a little exercise between myself and Beau at Basic Juice, Combinations, was designed to generate interesting content for our respective blogs. Not that Beau has joined in yet as he has been too busy slumming it...
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Wine Tasting Note: Weingärtner Cleebronn-Güglingen Samtrot Lemberger, 2004, Württemberg, Germany.
Posted on June 14, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesThe task for the June round of Wine Blogging Wednesday is to investigate a wine with an alcohol level below 12.5%; a tricky task in these days of headie 15%'ers. As luck would have it I received three wines recently...
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Bisol Prosecco
Posted on June 12, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard Visits, Wine NotesIt is a dramatic landscape - an east-west running series of craggy hills, where grape growing is impossible thick forests smother the steep hillsides. Better appreciated from the air the vineyards are dotted with small farm buildings and Austrian influenced...
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ABSA Top 10 Pinotage Competition 2006.
Posted on June 3, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Tasting Reports, Wine NotesNot to everyone's taste is Pinotage - South Africa's own unique red grape variety. I wasn't a fan for a long time hating that distinctive rusty nail edge that pervaded so many wines. But quality, that many put down to...
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Alsace Wines From The House Of Leon Beyer.
Posted on May 28, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Tasting Reports, Wine NotesLeon BeyerAn invite to join fellow bloggers at the London-based Wine and Dine Society Alsace tasting is not one I could ignore; eight wines from the house of Leon Beyer in Alsace on the 9th floor of a...
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Combinations: Matching an Austrian Dessert with Wine.
Posted on May 24, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesIt would seem I had a little more success with the semolina dumplings than Eating Leeds. Mine held up well, still a little lumpy perhaps, but fabulously tasty. The recipe is Griseknödel mit Grünen Paradeisern (Semolina Dumplings with...
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