A Wine That Needed Patience Tonight’s bottle was Domaine de Thalabert Crozes-Hermitage from Paul Jaboulet Aîné, and from the moment I pulled the cork I knew this wasn’t going to be a wine that gave everything away immediately. I recieved this wine as a present from my mother in law! Straight out of the bottle…
Sometimes Simplicity Wins This weekend’s wine wasn’t anything particularly expensive or highly rated. It was simply a bottle of Artusi Pecorino from Terre di Chieti picked up to accompany a barbecue of garlic marinated chicken and pork ribeye chops. As it turned out, it was exactly the right wine for the occasion. Pecorino is still…
I recieved this bottle as a birthday present and it made its way into the glass tonight, and this one arrived carrying quite the claim. A shiny gold sticker proudly announces 99 points from Luca Maroni 🙂 Now, I’ll be honest, I have absolutely no idea how this wine gets anywhere near that number. Don’t…
A Proper Midweek Steak Wine I picked this bottle up from Majestic for £17 and straight away felt like it might be in my lane. High altitude Argentinian Malbec, decent producer and a wine that looked like it wanted a bit more than just being a jammy fruit bomb. What I didn’t expect was just…
A New Wine Shop Find! I picked this bottle up from R&H Fine Wines in Liverpool after spending far too long staring at bottles I couldn’t quite justify buying this month. They had some proper gems on the shelves including the white Viña Tondonia and Wild Boy Chardonnay, both bottles I’ve wanted to try for…
A Birthday Meal and a Bit of a Curveball It was my mum’s birthday, so we headed out to a local Italian called Quattros. One of those places where you already know you’re going to enjoy it before anything even arrives. I went all in. Ribs in a tangy BBQ sauce to start, lasagna al…
A Post Gig Treat There’s something about getting in after a gig, the house finally quiet, and opening a bottle just for yourself. No rush, no distractions, just seeing what’s in the glass. Tonight it was the Trimbach Pinot Blanc 2023, taken out of the fridge and left to come up slightly. Straight away it…
A Late Night Pour That Taught Me More Than Expected There’s something about getting in after a gig, adrenaline still there, house quiet, and knowing tomorrow is going to be a proper Sunday roast. Liv had already set the tone without even saying it. Corn fed chicken, potatoes prepped, veg ready to go. It felt…
A Light Red in the Sun That Delivered Sometimes you don’t want power. You don’t want depth or something to sit and analyse for an hour. You just want a wine that fits the moment. That was exactly the mood here. I picked up a bottle of Santa Tresa Rina Russa Frappato, stuck it in…
There are some cracking wines out there, its just a shame that you have to look for so long to find them as is the amount of rubbish that the supermarkets have you wading through. Then there are wines like this, where the more time you spend with them, the more they reveal. The Antinori…