The Best Indian Restaurant in Berkshire
The Fat Buddha an Indian Restaurant in Maidenhead has taken the experience of eating Indian food in Berkshire onto another level. The Emperor of India in Maidenhead & Maliks of Cookham used to be the places to go in Berks, but not anymore. Fat Buddha is now the hot Indian ticket. What sets Maidenhead’s FatContinue reading “The Best Indian Restaurant in Berkshire”
Any Port in a Storm
In the past Sherry & Port was a must have for your drink’s cabinet, but for the last thirty years or so New World wines and white spirits have taken the shelf space from these fortified jewels. If you are bored with mass produced Chardonnay & Shiraz and fed up with being ripped off byContinue reading “Any Port in a Storm”
Take a Bow you Douro Wine Boys
Brewdog Beer Guys & Douro Wine Boys have a similar ethos. Make a quality product that sings of your mantra, you then become evangelists and spread your gospel to the drinking consumers of the world. Simple! Brewdog Beer Guys decided that mass produced beer was favourless and not worth drinking, so they decided to makeContinue reading “Take a Bow you Douro Wine Boys”
They don’t cut corners, it costs what it costs
Top-notch boutique wine producers don’t cut corners, it costs what it costs. A cheaper winemaking process or an increase in production to hit regulation price points does not fit with their ethos. This is what wine is all about in my book. The wines below are from Independent Wine Love Italian food? Check out my blogContinue reading “They don’t cut corners, it costs what it costs”
Austrian Wine Industry Born Again
In 70’s & 80’ Austrian & German wine industry, was known mainly for producing sweet and semi sweet wines. To make quality sweet wines you need grapes with high sugar levels. A vintage lacking sunshine would make it almost impossible to make sweet wines. Well… if you are contracted to making medium sweet wines forContinue reading “Austrian Wine Industry Born Again”
Nebbiolo wines that won’t send your Mouth into Electric Shock
Nebbiolo is a thick skinned black Italian grape that strut’s its stuff in Piemonte in North East Italy, producing iconic wines like Barolo & Barbaresco. Unfortunately, like Pinot Noir from Burgundy, great tasting Nebbiolo wines from Piemonte are expensive and very difficult to find. Barolo is regarded as the King and Barbaresco the Queen ofContinue reading “Nebbiolo wines that won’t send your Mouth into Electric Shock”
Don’t let the Italians drink all their best Wines
Going out for Italian meal for many Brits is a Pizza and a bottle of house plonk! It is slight on foodie Britain that we don’t embrace Italy’s gastronomy like we do others. Italian food is very much more than slab of humble flat bread pizza and dish of pasta, for example, they have overContinue reading “Don’t let the Italians drink all their best Wines”
Breathing Bumkum
Page 3 of Times Let the wine breathe? It’s just a waste of drinking time The proper way of getting the best out of the wine — or old-fashioned nonsense? The debate about whether wine is improved by being allowed to breathe has been revived after several experts said that most modern wines could beContinue reading “Breathing Bumkum”
Martin Isark Tasted 2005 Claret
I wrote in November 2009 that the 2005 was the vintage of the century, and may prove to be the vintage of the last as well. I said the big stars of the Left Bank & Right Bank were Ch. Margaux & Ch. Pétrus and the prices of the very best wines will continue to soar, as demandContinue reading “Martin Isark Tasted 2005 Claret”
Domaine Gayda a Star of the D’oc
Domaine Gayda is star of South of France’s Pays D’oc , a producer that embodies everything that a grower and winemaker should strive towards, and myself being from Shropshire farming family of many generations, understands that more than most. Check out wines the below and enjoy! Want to know more about Domaine Gayda’s ethos orContinue reading “Domaine Gayda a Star of the D’oc”
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