“God knows what you’ve unleashed on the unsuspecting South. It’ll be wine, women, and song all the way with Ringo when he gets the taste for it.”  –  Norm in A Hard Day’s Night (1964) To trace the wine saga for 2012 backwards, start here with the most recent previous post (Ideas, things, and…Wine for [...]

“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” – Fran Lebowitz As usual, if you are interested in the most recent prior wine write-up, follow this link: Days of laughter and running: Wine April Part B. We drank a few repeat bottles, re-runs we knew would be solid [...]

“Days of wine and roses laugh and run away.” —-Johnny Mercer As usual, if you want to see the most recent prior crime against wine reviews appearing in this blog, here is a link: Wise guy, eh?: Wine, April Part A. I don’t really go in for the carb-loading during the marathon taper as I eat [...]

Should have known better…Bodrum is clean, has table service (for a steep extra price), tourist maps on the counter and it is right next to a hostel all signs that they don’t really cater to the kebab eating public.  While the salad was crisp in the wrap, the doner was steam table damaged and probably [...]

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”  Proverbs 20:1 Continuation, most recent previous wine post was “The Affordable Bottles, Wines March E” from whence you can follow backwards to earlier posts.  I’m trying bi-monthly for a while, so this will be a bigger list than those [...]

It is Easter weekend and it is rainy and cool so the barbecue plan was abandoned.  Brian (the butcher) is closed until Thursday so I stocked up on stuff and asked him for a bit of pork shoulder and he brought out this beautiful rolled roast.  “Have you got anything less lovely?” “What are you [...]

Less than 1/4 mile from the Bell sits the Black Horse but it is a world away.  It has all the hall marks of a great seafood restaurant starting with the most important to me, the Scent.  The Black Horse smells for all the world like a seafood restaurant on the coast with that distinctive [...]

“…only the first bottle is expensive” — claimed by a sign in the Fox and Hounds to be a French proverb. The wine reviews continue but I think they may slow a bit until the seafood season forces me into the whites.  The most recent previous wine notes (and backwards links from there) are at [...]

“Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are body and soul, living partners.” — André Simon  (this is a continuation from the most recent wine post, Contemptible Scoundrels March 2012 C). Using up some leftover roast chicken I opted for a stir fry, but decided [...]

“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” ― W.C. Fields (his second appearance in the continuing wine reviews, with the most recent prior post here). Since Tesco reduced the price of Linoti Pinot Grigio from £9.99 to £3.99, we have been cooking with it; but, it is actually a very nice, dry tipple [...]