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  • Barbirollians
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    • Nov 2010
    • 11688

    Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
    Barbs. I once helped a guy deliver his yacht to Bordeaux. He was something of a wine expert and as we chugged the final 20 miles up the Gironde he was prancing on the deck pointing out various famous vineyards on the left and right banks. He treated me to a great meal in Bordeaux as a thank-you and bought a bottle of Chateau Margaux costing 60 euros...and this about 20 years ago. It was very pleasant, but 60 euros-worth pleasant? As you see I'm a philistine. I have however since then, developed a tiny bit of knowledge about Muscadet, which I find the very best accompaniment to shellfish. It is the one wine I buy and bring back from French trips, and I always pick a range (Sur Lie, naturellement) from about 8 to 15 euros; and the most expensive isn't always the best.
    Indeed and Waitrose;s excellent example - Le Fief Guerin - is a good illustration of the point .

    I do believe that branded wines, however, are to be avoided.

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26538

      Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
      he was prancing on the deck
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • gradus
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5609

        Just back from hols near Spoleto Very good local wines and reasonably cheap - 4 euros a litre in the restaurants. Most whites seemed to be Grechetto and excellent too, lots of Sangiovese which was equally pleasant. Looked in Waitrose yesterday but couldn't see any Grechetto there, I imagine it would cost rather more here, modest though it is.

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by gradus View Post
          Just back from hols near Spoleto Very good local wines and reasonably cheap - 4 euros a litre in the restaurants. Most whites seemed to be Grechetto and excellent too, lots of Sangiovese which was equally pleasant. Looked in Waitrose yesterday but couldn't see any Grechetto there, I imagine it would cost rather more here, modest though it is.
          Grechetto is a grape, I believe often to be found (ok I googled this bit ) in Orvieto white wine.



          Here's a grechetto wine from The Wine Society - sounds delicious and while rather more than 4 euros/bottle, I think it'd be worth a punt

          Putting our members before profit, we buy on quality and taste alone so you can enjoy wine at the fairest prices - For you and the people who make it.

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12842

            ... I liked the latest promo from the Wine Society :

            'Thank heavens for The Wine Society. An institution that keeps us impecunious connoisseurs from abject despair'
            (Those were the kind words of Henry Jeffreys recently in The Lady magazine.)

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26538

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              ... I liked the latest promo from the Wine Society :

              'Thank heavens for The Wine Society. An institution that keeps us impecunious connoisseurs from abject despair'
              (Those were the kind words of Henry Jeffreys recently in The Lady magazine.)


              Last weekend featured two WS numbers:

              A delicious Umbrian white from east of Gubbio - "La Monacesca" Verdicchio di Matelica, 2010

              And the house red at Caliban Towers: Château "Le Clos du Notaire", Côtes de Bourg, 2009 (also a fave of yours, do I recall, vindetable?)

              The latter has just re-entered the WS list so I have obtained a further case
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12842

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                A delicious Umbrian white from east of Gubbio - "La Monacesca" Verdicchio di Matelica, 2010
                :
                ... I am glad you liked it (it is nice, isn't it?) - but neither my pedantry nor my marcheggiani friends will quite let you get away with this. It is a wine from le Marche and not from Umbria. Wrong side of the watershed...

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26538

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  ... I am glad you liked it (it is nice, isn't it?) - but neither my pedantry nor my marcheggiani friends will quite let you get away with this. It is a wine from le Marche and not from Umbria. Wrong side of the watershed...



                  Proper got me juices flowing whichever side of t'Pennines it's from
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26538

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    The Lady magazine.
                    Presumably (like Kenneth Horne reading 'Male Physique Monthly' for the 'gardening' section) you read it for the 'food and drink' section.... ?
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Beef Oven!
                      Ex-member
                      • Sep 2013
                      • 18147

                      Some advice please, if possible.......

                      Just half an hour ago a friend gave me a bottle of wine. Chablis, 2011, Union Des Viticulteurs, with a metal cap.

                      I shan't be opening it until July 2014, will it keep alright?

                      I have never had a bottle of any type of alcohol in my possession for more than 72 hours before polishing it off, so I'm stumped!!!

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                      • teamsaint
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25210

                        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                        Some advice please, if possible.......

                        Just half an hour ago a friend gave me a bottle of wine. Chablis, 2011, Union Des Viticulteurs, with a metal cap.

                        I shan't be opening it until July 2014, will it keep alright?

                        I have never had a bottle of any type of alcohol in my possession for more than 72 hours before polishing it off, so I'm stumped!!!
                        put it in the freezer, should be fine.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • Barbirollians
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 11688

                          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                          put it in the freezer, should be fine.
                          Good heavens I assume this is a joke . It will be wrecked .

                          It should be fine for a couple of years just keep it somewhere dark and cool .

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                          • Beef Oven!
                            Ex-member
                            • Sep 2013
                            • 18147

                            Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                            Good heavens I assume this is a joke . It will be wrecked .

                            It should be fine for a couple of years just keep it somewhere dark and cool .
                            Thanks, that seems much more sensible than teamsaint's suggestion. It is now safely under the stairs

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                            • MrGongGong
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 18357

                              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                              Some advice please, if possible.......

                              Just half an hour ago a friend gave me a bottle of wine. Chablis, 2011, Union Des Viticulteurs, with a metal cap.

                              I shan't be opening it until July 2014, will it keep alright?

                              I have never had a bottle of any type of alcohol in my possession for more than 72 hours before polishing it off, so I'm stumped!!!
                              Why July 2014 ?

                              Currently having a glass of Light elderberry 2012 very good
                              now must go and get the elderberries for the 2013 vintage

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25210

                                Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                                Good heavens I assume this is a joke . It will be wrecked .

                                It should be fine for a couple of years just keep it somewhere dark and cool .
                                Barbi, Beefy knows me far better than to take my advice on almost anything !!
                                certainly not wine .

                                even I know that you don't freeze wine.

                                well I do now.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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