2004 vintage was my favourite wine ever at time. 2005 was a bit lame. 2006 was almost back to where it was in 04 and 2007 was unpleasant.

2008 shall be opened tonight with 46 bottles of MSB as back up.

If good it will do excatly what it says on the label, which, unlike the wine, never changes.

" Brightly golden in colour, effusively floral with a subtle yet delicious chardonnay flavour with a long lingering finish reminiscent of wild strawberries. "

Wild strawbs on a Burgundy chard.....MrD would never accept that.

~Harry Enfield man in pub mode~

Now if you woz to give me a nice pinot rose with wild strawberries on the long lingering finish I should say thank you very much Marks and Spencer that'll do nicely...but if jolly old M&S were to give me an unoaked chard from southern Burgundy and then start banging on about strawberries I should have to say NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and give them a good slap.

Wild strawbs on a Burgundy chard.....MrD would never accept that.

Ha ha, I grow little outcrops of Alpine, wild Woodland and Cambridge Favourite cultivated strawbugs in my vegetable garden,

The finish you descibe....may be the nutty, vanilla, palma violets, perfumed one of an alpine strawb, growing in very thin, uncomposted rockery soil.

Strawbugs are a multitude of facets, almost impossible to analyse. Only irradiated hot-house imports taste of 1 thing or nothing, depending on luck.

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Duncan

2008 is very buttery but needs a lot of chilling to bring out the Alpine straw bugs.

But they are there. Indeed yes !

Nice wine but I could never give up me goose bugs for it.