What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

Aha, a New Yorker usage of the diaresis! I trust you are an Oxford comma man, too.

I agree with Lynn Truss in Eats, Shoots and Leaves where she writes:

"There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken."

[jayne lee wilson]

Having taken a fancy to more fish recently (devil-of-a-thing to cook just so though, isn't it...) I found a lovely white bordeaux in Sainsburys - this is the 2011 Roc Saint Vincent, a sauvignon blanc, which we've been having with Smoked Cod or Haddock sauced with carbonara, mascarpone etc. Chill it as far as you dare.. then how it cuts through! Delicious.

[vinteuil]

I trust you are an Oxford comma man, too.

... o, very much so.

Even Caliban, who sadly is of the other persuasion, agrees...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g

[Thropplenoggin]

... noöne here seems to have come up with anything which even approximates Gerald Asher's * classic description of a nuits-st-georges :

"Deep colour and big, shaggy nose. Rather a jumbly, untidy sort of wine, with fruitiness shooting off one way, firmness another, and body pushing about underneath. It will be as comfortable and comforting as the 1961 Nuits St. Georges when it has pulled its ends in and settled down."

... still waiting

.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Asher

Aha, a New Yorker usage of the diaresis! I trust you are an Oxford comma man, too.

[vinteuil]

... noöne here seems to have come up with anything which even approximates Gerald Asher's * classic description of a nuits-st-georges :

"Deep colour and big, shaggy nose. Rather a jumbly, untidy sort of wine, with fruitiness shooting off one way, firmness another, and body pushing about underneath. It will be as comfortable and comforting as the 1961 Nuits St. Georges when it has pulled its ends in and settled down."

... still waiting

.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Asher

[Thropplenoggin]

... this weekend we have been mostly drinking :

ch Le Clos du Notaire 2009 cotes de bourg.

To quote the Wine Society : "75% merlot with the balance cabernet, this has the foursquare structure typical of the bourg appellation, with good fresh attack and pure fruit. Now to 2016. 13.5%"

For less than a tenner for a tidy little claret from a super-excellent year, this is a real bargain. I shall have to see whether the Wine Society has any bottles left...

I've yet to have a bad bottle of Bordeaux from 2009. Still plenty of bargains to be had, too.

[vinteuil]

... this weekend we have been mostly drinking :

ch Le Clos du Notaire 2009 cotes de bourg.

To quote the Wine Society : "75% merlot with the balance cabernet, this has the foursquare structure typical of the bourg appellation, with good fresh attack and pure fruit. Now to 2016. 13.5%"

For less than a tenner for a tidy little claret from a super-excellent year, this is a real bargain. I shall have to see whether the Wine Society has any bottles left...

[Barbirollians]

I also recommend highly the Bricco Langhe Rosso 2008 from Italy - a bargain at £6.75 at the wine society .

[vinteuil]

Marcillac Lo Sang del Pais 2012- crunchy south west french red - £7.95 from the wine society .

... it's very nice; not too heavy, goes brilliantly with sausages.

Coïncidentally - from the same page on the Wine Society list - to go with today's duck we had a lovely little madiran - 'Odé d' Aydie' - £9-50 I think - a good grip to cope with the roast duck, but not at all harsh, nice perfume. Very much recommended.

Very interesting - currently putting together a mixed case from the WS to try out a few new ones, and are a few short, that sounds a good one to try

Thanks.

It must be Spring - I'm doing the same thing Caliban and shall bung in a marcillac or two on your recommendation, Barbs. Don't forget the latest release from the Lebanese maestros at Ch Hochar

[Nick Armstrong]

Marcillac Lo Sang del Pais 2012- crunchy south west french red - £7.95 from the wine society and available elsewhere too - purple , grassy delicious and apparently very high in antioxidants so a health drink really.

Very interesting - currently putting together a mixed case from the WS to try out a few new ones, and are a few short, that sounds a good one to try

Thanks.

[Barbirollians]

Marcillac Lo Sang del Pais 2012- crunchy south west french red - £7.95 from the wine society and available elsewhere too - purple , grassy delicious and apparently very high in antioxidants so a health drink really.

[Nick Armstrong]

And footballers.......

http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/09/cristiano-ronaldos-written-off-ferrari-set-to-go-for-250000-on-ebay-3534272/

[vinteuil]

And footballers...

Mr Pee has found the weak point of owning a Bentley.

Certainly if you live in Cobham or Cheshire and drive a Bentley it can be assumed you are a player of ze futbol.

Best stick to the Armstrong-Siddley, I think...

[Mr Pee]

gentlemen can drive Bentleys.

And footballers.......