What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes cloughie - I should have been clearer.... I meant: no one I know had ever heard of it!

[cloughie]

Renewed thanks vinrouge for this recommendation. A bottle of Ch. Champarel '09 accompanied a slow-roast pork belly and some fresh peas this evening, and delicious it was

No one's ever heard of Pécharmant, and neither had I until your post!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9charmant

[Nick Armstrong]

... with today's roast duck, a bott of pécharmant (ch champarel 2009).

I first encountered pécharmant when posted to Paris in the early '90s, and it quickly became a favourite.

Haven't had it for ages, and was delighted to find this bottle. If you ever come across this under-appreciated appellation, I can much recommend it!

Renewed thanks vinrouge for this recommendation. A bottle of Ch. Champarel '09 accompanied a slow-roast pork belly and some fresh peas this evening, and delicious it was

No one's ever heard of Pécharmant, and neither had I until your post!

[vinteuil]

Mme V has just e-mailed me this.

Should we wine snobs be worrying??

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tasting-junk-science-analysis

[ahinton]

... careful, Ammy : IDS is watching you - ' "restaurants" - nay "restaurant wine list" - forsooth! Is that where the taxpayers' money - [and of course always of "hard working families" ] - is going???'

Are they the hard working families who are wont on occasion to leave their kids in pubs in order to savour nice bottles of fine wine in peace? Oh, probably not; those would not be the usual suspects, i.e. "ordinary hard working families", would they?!...

Fontanafredda Barolo 2008... AVOID... waste of taste and money! Sainsbury's TastetheDiff version is better for less.

Many thanks jlw - that's just the sort of mistake I'd make "ooh 5 y.o. Barolo" - fine advice

[jayne lee wilson]

Fontanafredda Barolo 2008... AVOID... waste of taste and money! Sainsbury's TastetheDiff version is better for less.

... careful, Ammy : IDS is watching you - ' "restaurants" - nay "restaurant wine list" - forsooth! Is that where the taxpayers' money - [and of course always of "hard working families" ] - is going???'

So much is available online these days, vints for those of us forced to live our lives vicariously

[vinteuil]

It appears on many a restaurant wine list these days too,

... careful, Ammy : IDS is watching you - ' "restaurants" - nay "restaurant wine list" - forsooth! Is that where the taxpayers' money - [and of course always of "hard working families" ] - is going???'

At a Father's Day lunch yesterday, introduced by the restaurant to a wine from the midi I'd never heard of before.

Picpoul de Pinet Beauvignac.

Picpoul is the grape - new to me: the wine was dry and full, a really good glass, full of character.

Goorgling this reveals that it's available from Morrisons, Majestic, M&S and elsewhere. Bon.

In full agreement here, kernel It appears on many a restaurant wine list these days too, thank goodness. A truly individual and blessedly affordable bottle

25% off 6 bottles at Waitrose until midnight tomorrow !

Chateau Musar becomes almost affordable again !

Woo-hoo! Many thanks for the alert, Barbs.

Ch. Musar, and the junior Ch Hochar (both available from Wine Society ) are affordable at whatever the price, if you see what I mean but a discount is an added bonus

[vinteuil]

Picpoul is the grape - new to me: the wine was dry and full, a really good glass, full of character.

Goorgling this .... Bon.

... yes, I have happily goorgled many a glass of picpoul in my time - a good bracing apéritif which really sets you up for a nice mediterranean lunch

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquepoul

[kernelbogey]

At a Father's Day lunch yesterday, introduced by the restaurant to a wine from the midi I'd never heard of before.

Picpoul de Pinet Beauvignac.

Picpoul is the grape - new to me: the wine was dry and full, a really good glass, full of character.

Goorgling this reveals that it's available from Morrisons, Majestic, M&S and elsewhere. Bon.

[Barbirollians]

25% off 6 bottles at Waitrose until midnight tomorrow !

Chateau Musar becomes almost affordable again !

[Nick Armstrong]

His website & blog wins prizes mate

He writes learned wine books too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...=Jamie%20Goode

Good-oh!