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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    As I don't drink a lot of wine, I sometimes buy those little cheap quarter bottles in supermarkets for adding to sauces.
    does this make me a bad person?
    sometimes I add them to homeopathic remedies to add a bit of taste too.
    Hey careful now
    I've got the franchise on homeopathic malt whisky matey

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      As I don't drink a lot of wine, I sometimes buy those little cheap quarter bottles in supermarkets for adding to sauces.
      does this make me a bad person?
      I wouldn't've thought so - more likely if you'd been wasting a good wine by making sauces out of that. (I hope this is right - because that's what I do, too! Mind you - I also buy cheap plonk to drink, too. Some very pleasant cheap pleasures to be had - but I'd like to move on from Sainsbury's Bulgarian Merlot, so I'm keeping an eye on this Thread.)
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Barbirollians
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 11680

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Certainly has here - like I lot of people I know we joined in Dry January, and it's somehow more or less continued so a bit out of practice .....
        I've got a bottle here about which I know not a lot, (pressie from neighbour because I tended his garden when he was on holiday) Domaine Les Fines Graves, Evelyne Janodet, Moulin a Vent 2011, should be ok with some slow-cooked shoulder of lamb I expect, might as well open it then, it's been sat in the kitchen cupboard for months.
        Nice present a £14 bottle according to wine searcher . Moulin a Vent unlike most Beaujolais will keep but not perhaps in a kitchen cupboard !

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        • Belgrove
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 938

          About this time of year, vinous thoughts turn to lighter things as the days start to lengthen perceptibly. Some Gruner Veltliner from Nautilus (NZ) went down a treat last night to accompany a baked brill. Similar to a dry citrusy Riesling, but with spicy notes, best drunk young. Must get some NZ Sauvignon Blanc's to celebrate the coming of spring, their zestyness
          seems somehow cleansing.

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          • Barbirollians
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 11680

            Chateau Champarel Pecharmant back at the Wine Society I see .

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26533

              Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
              Chateau Champarel Pecharmant back at the Wine Society I see .
              Good to know - tried it when it was first mentioned and liked it very much.

              My recent 'house red' (Ch. Cros de la Barde 2010 Cotes de Bourg - £7.25 a bottle) is no longer available I see ...only 5 bottles left at Ch. Caliban

              Another nice 2010 for under a tenner would be very welcome

              EDIT: thanks for directing me to the WS. I have just discovered in fact that my favourite sub-£10 wine (other than the Cros de la Barde) is back in stock! Not sure I should say which it is as I don't want it to run out !! ......
              Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 31-03-15, 23:11.
              "...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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              • Barbirollians
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                • Nov 2010
                • 11680

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Good to know - tried it when it was first mentioned and liked it very much.

                My recent 'house red' (Ch. Cros de la Barde 2010 Cotes de Bourg - £7.25 a bottle) is no longer available I see ...only 5 bottles left at Ch. Caliban

                Another nice 2010 for under a tenner would be very welcome


                EDIT: thanks for directing me to the WS. I have just discovered in fact that my favourite sub-£10 wine (other than the Cros de la Barde) is back in stock! Not sure I should say which it is as I don't want it to run out !! ......
                Well the 2010 Champarel is £9.95 .

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26533

                  Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                  Well the 2010 Champarel is £9.95 .
                  Quite


                  My favourite 'house red' is £8.92 [clue]
                  Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 01-04-15, 08:55.
                  "...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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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25209

                    All of which reminds me of one of the best bits of advertising dressed up as news I have ever heard. A few years ago, a Tesco spokesperson was widely quoted on the national news over the Xmas hols saying that "stocks of champagne are running dangerously low"
                    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
                      • 11680

                      There are quite a few Caliban at £8.95 but not at £8.92 !

                      I guess the other Cotes de Bourg .

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12815

                        Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                        There are quite a few Caliban at £8.95 but not at £8.92 !

                        I guess the other Cotes de Bourg .
                        ... yes, sounds like our Caliban - "Foursquare structure ... with good fresh attack"

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26533

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                          ... yes, sounds like our Caliban - "Foursquare structure ... with good fresh attack"
                          "...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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                          • Barbirollians
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 11680

                            So did we guess right Caliban ? Must have given you enough time to order a pallet .

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                            • Anastasius
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2015
                              • 1842

                              Puligny-Montrachet 2005. Bought about 10 years ago. Beautiful sun, blue sky, the garden, John Dory .....delicious.
                              Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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                              • Barbirollians
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11680

                                John Dory is a wonderful fish to go with very good white burgundy - the flavours of the two complement each other extraordinarily well . Shame one is so expensive and the other difficult to get hold of .

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