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Seresin Estate
A great quote from UK wine writer, Matthew Duke, on pinot noir.
“You can’t plant it on flat land, it hates fertile soil, it likes hillsides, so it’s more difficult to work, it’s almost as if the vine looks at you and says, `I don’t want any mechanisation, I want you and your hands, and that’s it’. It breaks your back and pisses you off. You can’t do it in volume,”
Personally it is the one grape to rule them all.
Hello Kitty wines!
Say hello to Hello Kitty Wines.
Some how I didn’t think this brand targeted people old enough to drink a Sparkling Brut Rose. I may be wrong.
10 rules for investing in wine
Rule #1: Buy the best Bordeaux (the First Growths, the Super Seconds and the top St Emilions and Pomerols) from the best vintages.
Tim Atkins completes the set in this 2008 article for The Observer.
World’s largest bottle of wine & the lightest
The Croatian Times reports on this huge bottle of wine from China.
…as they claim the new world record for the world’s biggest ever bottle of wine.
The 15ft high bottle contains an astonishing 1,850 litres of claret produced by Wang Chen Wines in Liaoning, northern China.
It contains treble the amount held by the previous record-holders in Austria.
I can’t find Wang Chen Wines to verify the announcement.
I’m dubious about the largest. I’m more certain about the lightest. Here’s the Decanter coverage of the Tesco announcement.
The world’s lightest wine bottle will hit the shelves in UK supermarket Tesco this week.
Tesco is using the 300g screwcap bottle, produced by Manchester-based independent wine supplier Kingsland Wines and Spirits, for its own label Australian non-vintage red.
At 300g, the lightweight bottle uses nearly 30% less glass than the average wine bottle, creating less carbon emissions.
UK sparkling wine beats French classics
English sparkling wine Nyetimber has beaten the likes of Bollinger and Louis Roederer to be named Champion of Worldwide Sparking Wines at an Italian competition reports Decanter.
Nyetimber’s Classic Cuvée 2003, which costs around £25, came top in the blind tasting at the Bollicine del Mondo competition in Verona, run by Italian wine magazine Euposia.
Tasting Cos
Cos D’Estournel. The name says it all. I’ve tasted Cos once. It was before I really knew or appreciated what I was drinking. Gastroenophile knows and appreciates.
…for my taste, the best contemporary Cos was the ‘96–and at £720 a case half the price of the ‘03. Forgive the superlatives, but the rim reminded me of the crimson glow that awakens you when you are flying over the Outback of Australia. The flavour is full throttle, with cedar, a touch of spice and, I am afraid, dried blood. This will effortlessly last two decades at least.
And he got to drink a ‘28
The ‘28, though, was a profound experience. It actually improved with time in the glass, and when I poured the last few drops from the bottle a few hours later, it was even more harmonious. It was slightly prickly but still had sweet fruit and a gentle aftertaste
One day soon I will again taste Cos.
German Pinot?
“Most people don’t even realize that Germany produces any red wine at all, let alone some very good pinot noir.”
An accurate summation of the situation, and my knowledge, by the New York Times. The article goes on to say…
The proof that Germany is now making some exceptional pinot noirs is there for the tasting, if only more people in this country could taste it.
Sounds like I need to go and find one/some and have a taste.
Wine came before the wheel
It’s reported that the only reason man turned to agriculture was to brew “wine”. Certainly matches my priorities.
A secure supply of alcohol appears to have been part of the human community’s basic requirements much earlier than was long believed. As early as around 9,000 years ago, long before the invention of the wheel, inhabitants of the Neolithic village Jiahu in China were brewing a type of mead with an alcohol content of 10 percent, McGovern discovered recently.
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