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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:13 pm 
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Majestic £9.99 Buy any 2 South African wines save 25% £7.49
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Quite a dark colour and very oaky nose. Like newly shaved wood, sitting on a windowsill in the sun, but also of very ripe apricots. Cracking smell! Ripe, honeyed and richly off-dry. A lovely wine. Very full and feminine. You’d need to like oak, though, and medium-dry wines.

12/02/2010

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:04 pm 
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Dear Mel.......hoping to get reply.

Would you slide this out of sight in the rack for a few years ? Sounds like a good candidate. I'm thinking of an out performer for dinner parties in 2011 + and at only £7.50.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:40 pm 
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It's a tricky one. I'm not sure, with all that oak. I suppose 2011 would be ok, or oaky, but wouldn't keep it much longer. However, you could keep one and let us all know.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:21 pm 
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Quite a dark colour and very oaky nose. Like newly shaved wood, sitting on a windowsill in the sun, but also of very ripe apricots. Cracking smell! Ripe, honeyed and richly off-dry. A lovely wine. Very full and feminine. You’d need to like oak, though, and medium-dry wines.

I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a very sharp stick, hit myself over the head with a blunt instrument, strip naked and attach a very angry black mamba to my willy and then, before I die in agony of snake venom and head wounds, do a naked Morris dance and declare my eternal love for Will Carling than drink this.

Good grief !


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:30 pm 
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Will you never get off that fence of yours G?


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:35 pm 
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You may recall this, courtesy of Reading Railways...

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:10 pm 
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This was on the tasting counter at Majestic and, having Goosegogs review in mind, I almost didn't bother tasting it as I am not fond of wood.

Well, I am glad I did. Stunning wine, beautiful. Wooded, yes, but not excessive and there is so much flavour, so much going on.

I bought a case.

And then wondered if Goosegogs had actually tasted it or whether he was doing a Skinner.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:25 pm 
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Don't whinge at Goose, he can't taste anything due to loosing all his taste buds to all those curried leeks.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:44 pm 
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It wasn't a tasting note. I was just expressing my fondness for oak and sweetness.


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This is in my "regular" folder. Due for some more soon, but trying loads from M&S at 25% orft. My original comments included mushrooms, changing rooms and steam engines.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:52 pm 
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I wondered what the picture from the Thomas The Tank Engine programme was doing here...

I didn't get any of the flavours you mentioned.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:14 pm 
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I had this wine tonight with dinner*

Lovely, so much complex flavours

I am not a wood fan and whatver wood there was in this wine was playing its part of underpinning and not being obtrusive


*stir fried chicken pieces with cashew nuts and orange pepper slivers in black bean sauce

with stir fried pak choi in oyster sauce

and plain rice

(and optional nam pik nam pla)


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:23 pm 
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The bobtail critter, no less

For folks, other than Thai folks and Pontac of course

nam pik nam pla ingredients:

5 tablespoons Thai fish sauce
1/2 cup fresh lime juice
6 sliced birds eye chiles
2 teaspoons brown sugar
2 cloves garlic, minced

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