What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[smittims]

Reminds me of these old films where a booted cavalier bursts in and shouts, 'Mine host ! some wine!' as if there's just 'wine '.

My last bottle was Pinot Grigio , also genuine Italian, £3.99 from ALDI . slightly chilled, delicious.

[french frank]

No idea what it was. Quick salad in the local tratt with a glass of white. Followed by a double espresso and sambuca.



In fairness, I should say that wine is of two sorts here - red and white - and is served in A Glass (ml unspecified). Genuine Italian.

[gradus]

I'm sweltering in Hong Kong (34C) but I was thrilled by Mark Cavendish's win yesterday so I'm toasting him with a (large) glass of Billecart-Salmon Rosé (my hotel has a rather posh offie next door which sells such things rather than Mateus Rosé). Not sure that Bruckner's 5th is quite the right accompaniment but great symphony, great wine and truly great cyclist.

Yes, a truly great achievement, Bravo Cav.

[HighlandDougie]

I'm sweltering in Hong Kong (34C) but I was thrilled by Mark Cavendish's win yesterday so I'm toasting him with a (large) glass of Billecart-Salmon Rosé (my hotel has a rather posh offie next door which sells such things rather than Mateus Rosé). Not sure that Bruckner's 5th is quite the right accompaniment but great symphony, great wine and truly great cyclist.

[smittims]

When the warm weather comes (will it ever?) I move from red to chilled white, currently Cotes de Gascogne from ALDI, very nice and just as good as Tesco at £2 more. I'm getting notes of Elderflower...

[vinteuil]

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... many of us may have reasons for opening some serious bottles today / tomorrow - 4 July, US Independence Day; over here an election - and its results.

We might like to take some inspiration from today and tomorrow's stages on the Tour de France -

Mâcon to Dijon,
Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin :

https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-6

https://www.letour.fr/en/stage-7

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[Roger Webb]

o yes. Ethiopia, fr'instance, produces excellent wines.

('Not many people know that.')

But not often available in the UK...

And Breaky Bottom reciprocally almost unknown in Addis Ababa.....unless you drink the water!

[vinteuil]

'when in Rome....'. and I've enjoyed wines in countries you wouldn't think of as great viticultural centres...

o yes. Ethiopia, fr'instance, produces excellent wines.

('Not many people know that.')

But not often available in the UK...

[Roger Webb]

I bought them 40 or 50 years ago, when I would probably have been quite insulted to be thought a peasant (I don't mind now).

Roger - I read a lot about the quality of New World wines and I'm sure some are excellent - much better than cheaper Europen wines. But I drink European ones, usually French and sometimes Spanish and Italian, depending on what I'm eating. But if I'm in another country I'll happily drink their wine - Greek, Swiss, Portuguese, E European. I'm beginning to see more German ones now. I remember far back when they were well thought of, but their reputation subsequently suffered badly .

The quality of New World wines is surely not in doubt, and in the past I've happily drunk wines from the Americas, North and South and the Antipodes, but now it seems sensible to 'buy local'.....we make some excellent (?) wines in this country, but I didn't mean that local!

Like you 'when in Rome....'. and I've enjoyed wines in countries you wouldn't think of as great viticultural centres...Slovakia for example - we stayed a couple of weeks for a Ring in Bratislava and were constantly surprised by the wines in the little wine bar we ate in most nights.....mainly Grüner or Blaufränkisch, just over border from Vienna see.

Yes to more German wines, again, I loved visiting Germany - in fact I lived in Berlin for a year....and drank a lot of beer!

I actually love your goblet....and look forward to seeing you, and it, on The Antiques Roadshow.

[kernelbogey]

I have few rules when it comes to wine glasses. They shd be of clear glass (your pale green recycled one won't do.) The glass shd have a thin rim (I suspect your recycled one won't do.) They shd have a stem. They shd be large enuff. I think the riedel notion of different glasses for different grape types is absurd.


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I was told some years ago that the key spec is to have a hole in the top, and not one in the bottom.

[vinteuil]

Sainsburys sells very good simple Habitat red and wine glasses in boxes of 4 - often after Christmas they have got too many in and sell for about £4 reduced from £9-10.

I think they're excellent - when the Habitat store in Hammersmith closed there was a colossal clearance sale, and we ended up buying many boxes of their glasses in different sizes, which are serving us very well years later....

[Barbirollians]

Sainsburys sells very good simple Habitat red and wine glasses in boxes of 4 - often after Christmas they have got too many in and sell for about £4 reduced from £9-10.

[french frank]

... looks quite jolly, for swigging tap water. A bit Marie-Antoinette playing at being a peasant, perhaps?

I bought them 40 or 50 years ago, when I would probably have been quite insulted to be thought a peasant (I don't mind now).

Roger - I read a lot about the quality of New World wines and I'm sure some are excellent - much better than cheaper Europen wines. But I drink European ones, usually French and sometimes Spanish and Italian, depending on what I'm eating. But if I'm in another country I'll happily drink their wine - Greek, Swiss, Portuguese, E European. I'm beginning to see more German ones now. I remember far back when they were well thought of, but their reputation subsequently suffered badly .

[vinteuil]

a photograph of the ... goblet

... looks quite jolly, for swigging tap water.

A bit 'Marie-Antoinette playing at being a peasant', perhaps?

EDIT - a nice optical ambiguity in the photo, as to whether we are seeing the top from above or below...




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[Roger Webb]

Recycled glass tends to have a greenish hue to it. So that reflects my environmental concerns. I am not a swirler, just a slurper. The masking tape marks 125ml so that I can easily work out the units of alcohol I'm consuming. And if I had £27 I wouldn't want to spend it on special wine glasses. I'd rather spend it on wine. And cheese.

I'm preparing a photograph of the said goblet, w/o masking tape. Not even I would want to drink rosé out of it, but white is okay.

Can you imagine the madness of having an environmentally sound glass and drinking wine conveyed from Australia or New Zealand...or South America?! I bet people do.

It's one reason why I stick to European wines.....just one!

I look forward to seeing this much vaunted 'goblet'....is it of the sort that Sir John may have imbibed 'sack' from in Henry the Forth part two?

The curse of unit counting is a topic of conversation often at the goblet house I mention, as a swirler it presents no problem as I spill more than I drink.

Edit it is Falstaff's!