Forever looking for something to “sex up the document”, I started introducing a food & wine matching element to our International Wine Championship Qs last year and, this being subjective rather than factual, I have had one or two discussions about which wine tastes best with what foods. There’s unanimous thinking that everything and anything [...]
Agence France-Presse (AFP) – Gerard Liger-Belair lives in a bubble, and he doesn’t care who knows it. Bubbles are his passion. And they have given the 41-year-old French scientist arguably the best job in all of physics. In a lab supplied with top-notch champagne, Liger-Belair delves into the secrets of fizz: What gives this legendary [...]
Hello everyone, I’m back from my usual summer sojourn down to the South of France and had a mo to drop a mucker a note to esquire if he enjoyed trying the André Roger Champagne, the Vielles Vignes, that I sent him down to quench the thirsty work of watching The Games and cheering our [...]
Having opened the food & wine matching workshop with the team of Roux at Parliament Square on such a successful pairing (see part one!), maintaining that for a second dish was a challenge. Here we had smoked and cured Gressingham duck with preserved cherries and hawthorn blossom. The words don’t quite do it justice, it [...]
The latest addition to our growing Burgundy list is this small domain, whose cellars lie below the mediaeval ramparts of Beaune itself. Domaine des Terregelesses is an historic 7 hectare estate that, starting with the 2009 vintage, has opened an exciting new chapter as the André family has resumed day-to-day running of the whole winemaking [...]
So then we moved on to Burgundy Rousseau Chambertin 1962, 1971 Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze 1962, 1971 Chambertin was masculine, powerful and constructed well. It is a vigorous and firm wine, having a characteristic aroma of liquorice. Chambertin Clos de Beze was a fantastic delicate wine with slightly lighter alcohol and tannin content. Both [...]
So here we go then – these are my thoughts on the champagnes… Moet 1911 Although I’m a fan of Champagne at almost any age, I was taken by the quality of the 1911. It possessed what most people would consider a fatal flaw: no bubbles. I enjoyed notes of ginger, honey and apple as [...]
By Jack Scott Oh Lordy Lord….we’ve tasted some very fine wines in the last couple of years whether they be the most impressive, top-end wines at the end of Championships, stuff like our weapons-grade Priorat, “Planots” to Yquem and the big boys of Claretville at the annual UGC tasting in Bordeaux….ah, the joys of the [...]