What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[Thropplenoggin]

I thought you might like some of the reviews of this wine from the cellartracker site : -

"- Garnet color with fast forming legs and aromas of dusty, raspberry and eucalyptus. It's in total harmony and has flavours of mushroom, bacon, molasses and raspberry with a medium body. Polished texture with a medium finish - Extremely well balanced, however even after a couple of hours it did not seem to reveal itself like it should, a bit shy possibly, but was consistent enjoyment from start to finish... "

"Brick red with tawny rim. Lovely violet nose with liqpurice. My tasting room was as floral as the garden. Medium acidity. On the palate, there was blackcurrants, liqourice with smoky flavours. There was still traces of tannin but it soon fade away on mid-palate. Finish was medium with some bitterness at the end..."

"Ruby core - quite a significant fade at the rim; lots of cigar box and pencil lead on the nose alongside some strong vegetal notes. Old sideboard - quite austere; very evolved on the palate, lots of secondary spice, cedar, cigars. Liquorice root. Nice texture, lovely mouthfeel and silky tannins. Fruit very evolved but still a lovely wine... "

"Rich floral nose with eucalyptus, tar and current leaf making a wonderful perfume.
The palate is dry with very refined tannins. This comes off with a bit of garrigue mixed in with the ripe red fruits. Excellent depth to this as tar and violets continue to evolve in the mouth. Succulent ripe tannins and juicy acidity keep you coming back to this vintage over the night. The finish is graphite laden and long. Well balanced... "

Ah, the Jilly Goolden touch to connoisseurship.

[clive heath]

Cellartracker is a great resource and I didn't read up this wine before tasting, promise!, so I'm quite pleased with "licorice" and thankyou vinteul for the research.

[Thropplenoggin]

Château Le Pey 2009. A great value Medoc that drinks well now, though better in 5-10 years, I expect. €10 here in France and an equivalent price in the UK, I believe.

http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1197418

[Madame Suggia]

Homemade elderflower June 3rd 2011

lovely

[MrGongGong]

Homemade elderflower June 3rd 2011

lovely

Plum 2011 is going down well here

[Beef Oven]

Plum 2011 is going down well here

I'd get me face pushed in down my local if I were caught drinking that middle-class plonk

[teamsaint]

I thought you might like some of the reviews of this wine from the cellartracker site : -

"- Garnet color with fast forming legs and aromas of dusty, raspberry and eucalyptus. It's in total harmony and has flavours of mushroom, bacon, molasses and raspberry with a medium body. Polished texture with a medium finish - Extremely well balanced, however even after a couple of hours it did not seem to reveal itself like it should, a bit shy possibly, but was consistent enjoyment from start to finish... "

"Brick red with tawny rim. Lovely violet nose with liqpurice. My tasting room was as floral as the garden. Medium acidity. On the palate, there was blackcurrants, liqourice with smoky flavours. There was still traces of tannin but it soon fade away on mid-palate. Finish was medium with some bitterness at the end..."

"Ruby core - quite a significant fade at the rim; lots of cigar box and pencil lead on the nose alongside some strong vegetal notes. Old sideboard - quite austere; very evolved on the palate, lots of secondary spice, cedar, cigars. Liquorice root. Nice texture, lovely mouthfeel and silky tannins. Fruit very evolved but still a lovely wine... "

"Rich floral nose with eucalyptus, tar and current leaf making a wonderful perfume.
The palate is dry with very refined tannins. This comes off with a bit of garrigue mixed in with the ripe red fruits. Excellent depth to this as tar and violets continue to evolve in the mouth. Succulent ripe tannins and juicy acidity keep you coming back to this vintage over the night. The finish is graphite laden and long. Well balanced... "

Wine is no place for bacon.

[MrGongGong]

I'd get me face pushed in down my local if I were caught drinking that middle-class plonk

I'm sure you would
but the bar meals are something else ..............

[Beef Oven]

I'm sure you would
but the bar meals are something else ..............

That ain't real. You made that herself and took a photo with your iPhone3

[ahinton]

That ain't real. You made that herself and took a photo with your iPhone3

Well, whilst the photo, regardless of its origins and the identity of its photographer, is undoubtedly abit of a dog in every sense, one could say much the same of UKIP, really. Nigel Barrage is certainly not inarticulate and doubtless tries his best to come across as persuasive and thoughtful but, since he and his party stand little if any chance of being more than an entertaining (or not) sideshow to the unreal politics that continues to ensure that the three main parties don't ever get anything much done that's lastingly useful, he might do well to ponder upon this fact and thereby come to realise that, as a leader of an organisation that purports to be a political party to be taken seriously by the electorate as a whole, he's on the most impossible of uphill struggles when one considers how the long established rest of them fail to manage these days; of him and his hench of bunchmen Lady Thatcher might well once have been inclined (had she cared) to observe "UKIP if you want to; the lady gets by on a maximum of four hours' sleep daily". It's not as though he and his party are ever likely to achieve a majority in the House of Commons, after all, where they've yet to win a single seat, the latest so-called "UKIP success" in Eastleigh notwithstanding. Any person or organisation who wants Britain "out of Europe" but whose collective muscle is woefully insufficient to shift its land mass appreciably far away from that of the remainder of Europe and unable to deny its longstanding cultural affiliations therewith is really trying to look as though it's taking on the most impossible of challenges, not least in its denial of the significance of 1714 in British history.

But since none of this has anything to do with anyone's last or indeed next bottle of wine, may I without further ado proffer all due apologies for continuing with the off-topic status that this thread has evidently acquired, as illustrated by the above...

[Nick Armstrong]

But since none of this has anything to do with anyone's last or indeed next bottle of wine

Save that wine may be described as "long on the palate" and - were one to attempt to read your post out loud - that description could apply by analogy to some of your sentences, this one especially:

Nigel Barrage is certainly not inarticulate and doubtless tries his best to come across as persuasive and thoughtful but, since he and his party stand little if any chance of being more than an entertaining (or not) sideshow to the unreal politics that continues to ensure that the three main parties don't ever get anything much done that's lastingly useful, he might do well to ponder upon this fact and thereby come to realise that, as a leader of an organisation that purports to be a political party to be taken seriously by the electorate as a whole, he's on the most impossible of uphill struggles when one considers how the long established rest of them fail to manage these days; of him and his hench of bunchmen Lady Thatcher might well once have been inclined (had she cared) to observe "UKIP if you want to; the lady gets by on a maximum of four hours' sleep daily".

And..... breathe....

[amateur51]

Save that wine may be described as "long on the palate" and - were one to attempt to read your post out loud - that description could apply by analogy to some of your sentences, this one especially:



And..... breathe....

[ahinton]

Save that wine may be described as "long on the palate" and - were one to attempt to read your post out loud - that description could apply by analogy to some of your sentences, this one especially:

And..... breathe....

Clearly, you identify yourself as a somewhat short-breathed person who one might assume accordingly to be compromised in terms of due response to certain wines, for which I can but feel sympathy for you! - but do please let us all know how you fare next time you "attempt" to read Finnegan's Wake, won't you?!...

It also occurs to me to mention (although I've no idea what connection if any it might have to the Gay Marriage thread hereabouts) the homily addressed to prisoners contemplating marriage in advance of their release that runs "never end a sentence with a proposition"...

[ahinton]

I wouldn't hold me breath if I were you; in fact (as I said earlier), UKIP if you want to (it's getting quite late for some, after all!)...

[Nick Armstrong]

Clearly, you identify yourself as a somewhat short-breathed person who one might assume accordingly to be compromised in terms of due response to certain wines, for which I can but feel sympathy for you! - but do please let us all know how you fare next time you "attempt" to read Finnegan's Wake, won't you?!...

It also occurs to me to mention (although I've no idea what connection if any it might have to the Gay Marriage thread hereabouts) the homily addressed to prisoners contemplating marriage in advance of their release that runs "never end a sentence with a proposition"...

Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth...