Where do we go from here?
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- BaggyTrousers
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Re: Where do we go from here?
Maybe a thread required, "Buffs du Vin somme-nous"
NEVER MOVE ON. Years on, I cannot ever watch Ireland with anything but indifference, I continue to wish for the imminent death of Donal Spring, the FIRFUC's executioner of Wee Paddy & Wee Stu, and I hate the FIRFUCs with undiminished passion.
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Ye see I'm just a simple soul and like a crisp Chardonnay with my seafood. Wouldn't know one of those fancy bottles of wine if I fell over it. I'd like 1/2 a case for 50 notes.BaggyTrousers wrote:God, I'm so over Chardonnay, oaked or unoaked. Like Beaujolais, there is more drunk per annum than is produced & yes, don;t bother, I do know that one is a grape, the other a region. Entirely unreliable produce by and large.Snipe Watson wrote:With a lightly oaked chardonnay?rocky wrote:Every time Steven Ferris's name appears on an Ulster team sheet has to be seen as a bonus and there is no way (and no point) of predicting when and how often that will happen in the future. It's a bit like certain human activities that are unpredictable, usually out of one's control, and to be enjoyed whenever they happen. Lobster Thermidor anyone?
Then again, at present I'm largely over white wine full stop, those that I would happily drink are mainly beyond my normal wine budget. If I'm going to pay £20 or more for a bottle I prefer a good red. A semi-decent Corton Charlemagne will not be less than £50, that is Chardonnay worth drinking.
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My favourite wines are the ones I get in Sainsburys for a song. Not the pretend "half price offers" that they do every other week but the genuine wans where a dacent bottle is substantially reduced.
Picked up 2 excellent battles of Chateau Neuf de Pape the other week reduced from £16.99 to £8.50 because another bottle of red had bust and destroyed the labels. Cudn't bate it, especially with a nice leg of lamb
Picked up 2 excellent battles of Chateau Neuf de Pape the other week reduced from £16.99 to £8.50 because another bottle of red had bust and destroyed the labels. Cudn't bate it, especially with a nice leg of lamb
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Re: Where do we go from here?
WINE!
And there I came onto this thread thinking it was a discussion about Ireland's way forward.
What was I thinking!!!
And there I came onto this thread thinking it was a discussion about Ireland's way forward.
What was I thinking!!!
- Snipe Watson
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I will not have the pretend "half price offers" disparaged.big mervyn wrote:My favourite wines are the ones I get in Sainsburys for a song. Not the pretend "half price offers" that they do every other week but the genuine wans where a dacent bottle is substantially reduced.
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Actually Snipe, it's my brother who is the real wine buff in the family but before I became a pauer on a meagre stipend I enjoyed my fair share of quality.Snipe Watson wrote:Ye see I'm just a simple soul and like a crisp Chardonnay with my seafood. Wouldn't know one of those fancy bottles of wine if I fell over it. I'd like 1/2 a case for 50 notes.BaggyTrousers wrote:God, I'm so over Chardonnay, oaked or unoaked. Like Beaujolais, there is more drunk per annum than is produced & yes, don;t bother, I do know that one is a grape, the other a region. Entirely unreliable produce by and large.Snipe Watson wrote:With a lightly oaked chardonnay?rocky wrote:Every time Steven Ferris's name appears on an Ulster team sheet has to be seen as a bonus and there is no way (and no point) of predicting when and how often that will happen in the future. It's a bit like certain human activities that are unpredictable, usually out of one's control, and to be enjoyed whenever they happen. Lobster Thermidor anyone?
Then again, at present I'm largely over white wine full stop, those that I would happily drink are mainly beyond my normal wine budget. If I'm going to pay £20 or more for a bottle I prefer a good red. A semi-decent Corton Charlemagne will not be less than £50, that is Chardonnay worth drinking.
Used to know a guy who ran the wine shop for Superfare in Derry, now I believe in Chill, called Nigel Baber. Nigel was NI wine tasting champ & had some excellent connections. He used to get small amounts of extraordinary things when a really expensive bottle was £3.99 - late 70's - and would look after his regulars with things that would never see the shelves in the shop.
Every bottle NIgel recommended I bought & was never less than happy. That is when I became familiar with Vosne Romanee, Aloxe Corton, Corton Charlemagne & suchlike. Sadly they are now way out of what I would be prepared to pay for a single bottle.
When I left the Maiden City in 1982, Nigel gave me a bottle of 1976 Chateau Latour, and told me to keep it for an occasion in maybe 10 or 20 years. I had planned to drink it as 2000 dawned but fate decreed otherwise. I returned from a Dublin weekend in 1992, 10years later, to find that my 3 year old daughter had blundered into a rack of "keepers" & the only bottle that broke was my 76 Latour.
Of course her being unharmed was the only thing of that mattered in reality & 21 years later she is an Ulster ST holder.
NEVER MOVE ON. Years on, I cannot ever watch Ireland with anything but indifference, I continue to wish for the imminent death of Donal Spring, the FIRFUC's executioner of Wee Paddy & Wee Stu, and I hate the FIRFUCs with undiminished passion.
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Re: Where do we go from here?
Too much wine at the weekend to be honest