What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[vinteuil]

... having seem Mme V off for the weekend with her family in Dorset am left on my lonesome.

Car has flat battery. Need cheerin' up.

Well, my plan to get 'completely off my face' (as mme V's sons put it... ) doesn't really work. When you're over sixty, the liver starts complaining before the brain has time to deliquesce.

But have been enjoying (all from Wine Society) a fruity viognier domaine du bosc 2011 from the Languedoc which was well good with the asparagus and the salmon - and a rioja viña amézola crianza 2004 that went nicely with a bifteck marchand-de-vin.

Praps if I move on to the Bleasdale 'The Wise One' tawny* to go with the mango and ice-cream and follow it up with a decent armagnac the oblivion I am seeking may follow...

* "The fortified wines that Australia was famous for before the Second World War have gone out of fashion, but the best of them are not only extremely good but great value. ....Gorgeous..... a ten year old fortified Australian blend of grenache, shiraz, and verdelho wines which have matured slowly in small oak casks near the winery's hot tin roof. Complex nutty and chocolate flavours combine with the silky texture developed during the ageing process culminating in a gorgeous aperitif or after-dinner beverage. 18%."

[Nick Armstrong]

Citroens are designed to carry pigs in comfort, (real ones ) not carry valuable musical instruments.

Calibun, your point about the driver seems either superfluous of misleading. I'm not sure which is the most likely...

It did in fact originally say "of course" the driver. I thought if I left the driver out, some wag would come along and say 'no room for the driver then?'



Ahem. I opened two bottles of 1998 Ch. Fombrauge St Emilion last weekend. One was over the top and cabbagy but the other quite delicious

Haven't had St Emilion for ages

[teamsaint]

Citroens are designed to carry pigs in comfort, (real ones ) not carry valuable musical instruments.

Calibun, your point about the driver seems either superfluous of misleading. I'm not sure which is the most likely...

[Nick Armstrong]

... certainly the final exams at our Conservatoires, for those studying harp or harpsichord, include reverse parking and three-point-turns with a Volvo Estate....

I once had cause to establish conclusively that a double-bass can be transported in a Citroën DS in tolerable comfort, with room for one passenger (in the back seat) as well as the driver

[vinteuil]

The professional musicians will all have Volvos.

... certainly the final exams at our Conservatoires, for those studying harp or harpsichord, include reverse parking and three-point-turns with a Volvo Estate....