What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[Roger Webb]

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... the Wine Society do a range of grüner veltliner, from £8:75 up to (gulp) £56 a bottle. I've been very happy with their own brand at about £9 a bottle

https://www.thewinesociety.com/buy/wines/grapes/gruner-veltliner/?sort=2

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Grüner is really catching on here isn't it? At one time it was almost unknown - both Avery's and Harvey's in Bristol kept examples, but it was never seen in supermarkets. We always looked forward to visits to Austria and tried various Heurigen around the suburbs. One we always tried to get to was Mayer am Pfarrplatz in Heiligenstadt....a visit to the Beethovenhaus famous for the location of Beethoven's writing of the famous 'Testament' is a must, but after a stroll up the Eroicastrasse and you are on the hill over which one can visit Nüssdorf - a favourite walk for Beethoven - and return via the path by the 'babbling brook' called the BeethovenWeg!

The Mayer am Pfarrplatz is special as Beethoven stayed there also, and if you ask nicely they'll take you upstairs to show you B's room!

We were especially lucky last visit as there was a wedding on and dancing to a Schrammelmusik band.

Waitrose do a good Grüner by Huber from the Traisental at a good price (25% off this week for six I think!)

[Petrushka]

Grüner is really catching on here isn't it? At one time it was almost unknown - both Avery's and Harvey's in Bristol kept examples, but it was never seen in supermarkets. We always looked forward to visits to Austria and tried various Heurigen around the suburbs. One we always tried to get to was Mayer am Pfarrplatz in Heiligenstadt....a visit to the Beethovenhaus famous for the location of Beethoven's writing of the famous 'Testament' is a must, but after a stroll up the Eroicastrasse and you are on the hill over which one can visit Nüssdorf - a favourite walk for Beethoven - and return via the path by the 'babbling brook' called the BeethovenWeg!

The Mayer am Pfarrplatz is special as Beethoven stayed there also, and if you ask nicely they'll take you upstairs to show you B's room!

We were especially lucky last visit as there was a wedding on and dancing to a Schrammelmusik band.

Waitrose do a good Grüner by Huber from the Traisental at a good price (25% off this week for six I think!)

I went to Heiligenstadt, in 1981, 1986 and 2008, went to the Beethovenhaus at Probusgasse 6 then walked over to Grinzing Cemetery to view Mahler's grave, each time on a glorious May morning. Happy memories.

Yes, the Huber Grűner is the one I get from Waitrose (also in Sainsbury's, I think). Great wine but, as with most Waitrose wines, it's shot up in price. Waitrose also do another Grüner in their fine wines. (forget the name, sorry) but the Huber is superior.

I'd also recommend Grüner Sekt if you can find it. It's my usual New Year's Concert tipple.

[Roger Webb]

I went to Heiligenstadt, in 1981, 1986 and 2008, went to the Beethovenhaus at Probusgasse 6 then walked over to Grinzing Cemetery to view Mahler's grave, each time on a glorious May morning. Happy memories.

Yes, the Huber Grűner is the one I get from Waitrose (also in Sainsbury's, I think). Great wine but, as with most Waitrose wines, it's shot up in price.

I'd also recommend Grüner Sekt if you can find it. It's my usual New Year's Concert tipple.

Yes Grinzing is touching for its Mahler grave, but is very touristy now....and quite unbelievably right on the main drag you look up and see on a very distinguished house a plaque telling you that it was Karl Böhm's residence!

I've never drunk the fizz derived from Grüner...I hardly ever drink Champagne either....but in Berlin perhaps a glass of Sekt at my favourite restaurant Lutter und Wegner, still there in the Gendermenmarkt, and still serving a glass of the fizz they originated!
But in Vienna it's a glass of 'Sturm' if we're there in Autumn!

[kernelbogey]

Yes, the Huber Grűner is the one I get from Waitrose (also in Sainsbury's, I think). Great wine but, as with most Waitrose wines, it's shot up in price. Waitrose also do another Grüner in their fine wines. (forget the name, sorry) but the Huber is superior.

£9 down from £12 atm from Waitrose. Prosit!

[Barbirollians]

I really don't like GV - there is a pepperiness about it that I don't get on with and I have tried quite a few even from Brundlmayer who is meant to be one of the leading Austrain growers.

Aldi did however an excellent Austrian Riesling last year for about £8 I hope that comes back .

[Kernow Malc]

My most recent bottle of wine was over 35 years ago so I don't remember what it was....

[vinteuil]

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... domaine la Portelle, fleurie 2017.

An instructive reminder that a good beaujolais can last and doesn't need to be drunk young

Went very well with some innocent pappardelle with tomatoes and garlic

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[french frank]

Quelle coincidence! - Fleurie was one I hadn't heard of. Today a £12.00 bottle of Patrick Chodot (who he?) Fleurie 2023 for £9.50 from Têco. A not half bad red with a not half bad pork stew(ish). At abv 13% a hearty accompaniment. But I shall switch to a white Côtes du Rhône shortly for the Langres - and let the cheese breeee-athe ...

Fleurie just south west of Mâcon and north of Lyon.

[vinteuil]

- Fleurie was one I hadn't heard of...

... one of the top ten named crus of beaujolais -

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurie_(AOC)

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[french frank]

... one of the top ten named crus of beaujolais -

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurie_(AOC)

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I don't think I'd even noticed that wines are lower case although the placename is upper case. Normal practice, it seems - me just unobservant. And I'd taken fleurie as being an adjective, vaguely suggesting a 'flowery' taste/smell. Anyway, it was very good with the pork stew but I think I was right to switch to the white for the Langres. In fact I even had it with crabapple jelly as I decided the hawthorn might fight with the cheese. Rosehip would have been good too, but I didn't want to open a new jar, Dessert is a very ripe nectarine, followed by coffee and chocolate - after the washing up is done.

[vinteuil]

I don't think I'd even noticed that wines are lower case although the placename is upper case. Anyway, it was very good with the pork stew but I think I was right to switch to the white for the Langres...

... same rule for cheeses - so langres, brie, camembert &c

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langres_(fromage)

(tho' this convention is not as consistently applied as that for wine... )

[french frank]

Hmmmm. Well, doesn't seem to me to show proper respect

[Alain Maréchal]

Hmmmm. Well, doesn't seem to me to show proper respect

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine#Grammaire

You are not alone in that opinion: note the rather unhappy acknowledgement that many publishing houses ignore the rules. They ought to learn not to set themselves up against Arbiter Wiki, and certainly not against Collignon, but it occurs to me he may have proofread many of the offending items, and passed them.