Archive of Wine Notes - 3/26 - Spittoon.biz
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Freixenet Cordon Oro Semi Seco NV
Posted on July 12, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesFive Days/Five Wines: Saturday 9th July Siva and Phil pop round for a coffee; forewarned I picked up three Butterscotch Pecan Yum Yum's from Waitrose (99p each if you were wondering). Phil...
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Spy Valley Pinot Noir Rosé 2010
Posted on July 11, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesFive Days/Five Wines: Friday 8th July All I can manage this evening is a Bingham's Ready Meal. It's been a heck of a week, a hell of a day; so that even a...
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Ceretto Blange Arneis 2010, Piedmont, Italy
Posted on July 10, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesFive Days/Five Wines: Thursday 7th July Lightly fried pancetta, warmed through petit pois, a few spoonful's of Rodda's Crème Fraîche turned through a plate of pasta plus a topping of chopped window-box...
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Matching Chapel Down Wines With Asparagus
Posted on May 30, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesThe White Swan, Fetter Lane, London, not exactly my local but when invited by Cooksister for a Friday night out complete with English bubbly and food, who could resist! The dinner, a...
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Second Annual #Chardonnay Day & Wine Century Club
Posted on May 26, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesHeard of Chardonnay Day? Well yer have now! Its today, well the second outing is at any rate. Welcome to the second annual #Chardonnay day. With your help, this (along with #Cabernet day) could become annual holidays born from...
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A Wine For This Seasons Asparagus
Posted on April 25, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesReally sorry Mary Berry but your Hollandaise Sauce isn't a patch on the one served at Aubaine. Sure yours is a mass produced commercial product, and rather tasty it is too,...
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Drinking Lurton’s Mas Janeil le Traou de l’Ouille 2009
Posted on March 20, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesIsnt it amazing that a scrap of earth with no discernable farming potential can, when a vine or two are stubbed into the unforgiving soil, produce an alcoholic drink that replicates that...
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See Saw S&M, 2009, Hunter/Barossa Valley
Posted on March 16, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Wine NotesIn my hands I have a bottle of red, specifically See Saw Shiraz-Mourvèdre 2009 . The back label tells me little, the Shiraz component was plucked from the Hunter Valley while the...
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The Wines of Julia Kemper, Dao, Portugal
Posted on March 13, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard Visits, Wine NotesTake a mix of native Portuguese grapes - all replanted only a few years ago on Júlia de Melo Kemper's inherited estate - add some state-of-the-art drip feed irrigation, rebuild a collapsed...
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Sampling Vinho Verde in Mesa Restaurante, Porto
Posted on March 8, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, Wine NotesA touch tricky to match a dessert dish to a Vinho Verde wine. Next best, seeing as they don't 'do' sweet wines would be a sparkler, but for me the match...
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