The Champagnes tasted on the Kirker Champagne Tour DAY 1 The First Evening Champagne Tasting Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve Billecart-Salmon Millésime 2009 Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve Jacquesson ‘Cuvée 744’ Extra brut Henri Giraud Blanc de Crai Laherte Frères Cuvée Les 7 Pol Roger White Foil (as aperitif) DAY 2 At
Recipes for Nettle Soup, Stinging Nettle Soufle, Georgian-Style Chicken and Sorrel “Chakapuli”
Samos Muscat Wine Harvest report August 2019 (finally written up from notes March 2020) ahem. Well, I arrived here on the Greek island Samos a couple of days ago, picked up my hire car from Dimitri’s ‘rent a wreck’ and then, straight to the vineyard harvesting hook in hand?
San Diego, capital of the West Coast Craft Brewery movement. February 2020 We’ve been on the USS Midway, the WW2 Aircraft Carrier Museum and are now trying to get to 30th St, North Park, which is perhaps the centre of Craft Brewing in the city, thus perhaps the centre of
Now this was a pretty spectacular line up by any stretch of the imagination. First evening Champagne tasting: Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve G. H. Mumm “Mumm de Cramant” Brut Alain Mercier “Cuvée Emile” Blanc de Noirs Brut Jacquesson “Cuvée 742” Extra Brut Gosset Grand Millésime 2006 Brut
Turkey is a boring bird, why have it at the Christmas feast? We’re not, we’re having a GOOSE. However, we’ll demolish the whole thing in one lunch with only a few bits left over for a snack supper with bubble & squeak. So we need something else to feed the
The first of the food blogs Autumn; game, mushrooms, fruit, nuts….. especially mushrooms, especially if it stops raining and we have a few warm dry days. Firstly, yes, we do get Ceps in England and indeed in Hampshire, where they grow on warm sandy sites and we have a few.
Welcome to the Wine Blog This will be regular, there’ll be some recurring themes like “6 wines from….”, reports from areas I visit, discussion of ideas such as Organic & Natural wines, history of wine and whatever seems interesting at the time. Every blog must start somewhere so here’s no
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