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Does that mean you grew your own Spinach?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I have dined on salad and Beaujolais-Villages 2009 from the celebrated vineyard of Louis Jadot, which was reduced by a couple of pounds and very fulsome and fruity it is: Burgundy to suit any but the most refined of palates, and I'm hoping it guaranties a good night's sleep after watching the Masters golf championship at Augusta.
Black beans and rice and a nice refreshing glass of cherry limeade.
Yes I have a row of Spinach on the front. I like flowers and all of that business (have some nice tulips) but you can't eat them. I like my garden to at least give me something back aside from visual enjoyment. I have on the go: tubs of carrots starting, three large potato barrels, some lettuce, beetroot, strawberry plants, some leeks in the borders, various herbs, some inch high tomato plants and two chili plants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I would have thought that the wine was not needed to send you to sleep after watching golf. I'm pretty sure I've had that wine before. It's a little light for my taste in red wine. I think that's because I like the more heavy body reds. When I have red wine it is always drank with heavy food though, red meats, spicy stuff, pizza etc.
(Oh, I also have garlic and three onions.)
Oatmeal raisen crisp with almond milk
Nuts.
Raisin' Hell with Creamy Buttered Raisin Toast - then on to the Pears and Neapolitan Icecream (Chocolate, Vanilla, and Pink), a Hot Cuffee (Moccha Chocolate and STRONG Coofee from Amaraikakka Ammayaa Beans - rrrrrreallly Gooodd fr ththe nnnnnnnnerrrrvessss!)))
Mmmm, nice tea. I've just had a massive steak (well done) cooked in garlic and onions, boiled potatoes (well done until they are almost crumbled with lots of butter), a bit of spinach and chives for a salad. I washed this down with a large glass of Canti Italian red.
For dessert I had a large portion of Tesco value triffle.
Off to the opera in a bit, Mozart's Tito!
cup of tap water.
I've just finished the rest of that average sort of red after greatly enjoying the opera tonight. I love the ETO - great organisation.
I am just finishing an Italian salad and drinking a wine from Fronton in the South West of France, it's Chateau Bouissel 2008 and organically produced.
It won a gold medal from the French ministry of agriculture in 2010 and is a super little red. Lighter than a Burgundy and very flavoursome.
That sounds pretty good actually, though I prefer a bit of body on my wines like my...oh, never mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I have myself just finished off a bottle of red, but not a very good one - why can't I get hold of decent wine? Something called Frontera, from Chile, it couldn't have been any good at £4+ but there were really nothing much else to go with, only Australians and cheap US wines (despite having a "choice" of about 20/30 wines) no French, no Italian etc - never mind, it wasn't particularly bad, just nothing special.
I think that I have had the taste for red wine because of the excellent opera last night (where you pay £3.80 for a wee glass, and it wasn't up to the mark!?! - a whole mm off). I always drink wine at the opera and it has followed into today.
I might go one extra and finish off the day with a Leffe, I don't have to get up in the morning anyway - I've even took the bin out. Oh the joy.
What are those Paul Mason thingy funny top wines like?
I agree that, as a food person, you should drink appropriately well-bodied wines with your meals and French for preference. As for Paul Masson, as with American wine in general, don't go there. Here is an extract from a website that tells you all that you need to know:
The Paul Masson brand is best remembered for its 1970s marketing association with Orson Welles, who promised for Masson: "We will sell no wine before its time." An infamous outtake for one commercial from the Orson Welles campaign features Welles attempting to deliver his lines while very severely inebriated. Despite a lucrative contract which included a clause allowing for generous quantities of free wine, Welles was subsequently sacked from the Paul Masson commercials in the early 1980s after admitting on a US talk show that he never drank Paul Masson wine.
This is understandable considering that Welles was a worldly personage who had probably wined and dined in the best restaurants in Europe and had drunk the most exquisite wines such as the US had never known.
In the words of P.T.Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute," and the enormous scale of American advertising clearly demonstrates the veracity of his statement.
Interesting, I didn't know it had so much history and connection to Orson Welles! I'm not surprised that it's a poor wine though. Is it me though or is ther a definite increase in the amount of US/Aus/SA/ wine over tradititional Frence/Italian fair? Whatever, I don't seem to be able to pick up a decent red wine to suit my tastes - only in bars at cost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I'm surprised that you are unable to get a decent red wine. Surely there's a good range of wines in most supermarkets nowadays. They even stock high quality wines in a special rack. My neighbour bought me a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape yesterday for taking care of his cat and although it's about £16 per bottle it's an excellent wine that goes very well with cooked meats and is available in most stores. It's a long time since I last drank it but I remember how good it was. The Oddbin chain of shops has gone into liquidation due to losing trade to the supermarkets, so there's another outlet that was always good for interesting wines that will shortly be missing from the high street.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
The trouble with New World wines is that they lack the class of their European counterparts. They are either too sweet, as in the case of American wines, or they are rather insipid and lacking in body. I haven't had one that I really liked and some have been awful. It's true that they are taking over the market but it's because most people don't know anything about wine and go for the cheapest and most heavily advertised brands. As you know, it's exactly the same story with beer although, if you are prepared to pay the price, there are some good bottled beers available.
Peppermint tea and an apple fritter. Yum.