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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:43 pm 
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Smells like dried apricots steeped in dessert wine, but with a hint of lime zest. Sweet but fresh taste, with some raisin. Interesting.

20/10/2009

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:48 pm 
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Ah...

Just bought one of these this very evening.

Half price at the moment .


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:09 pm 
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I got one for Xmas at half price, but didn't get round to it.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:17 pm 
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This is lovely (if you like sweet wines). There is a lot going on. Label says

It has intense aromas of crystallised fruit, cinnamon and gingerbread and the myriad flavours of plum, prune, nuts & orange peel fill the mouth. The wine is sweet and the natural acidity and spicy oak give it a fresh, complex, lingering finish.

I'm not sure I got all of those but there was something else there which I could not put my finger on. It came to me over the weekend after it had been open a few days. Maple Syrup. Might explain why it went wonderfully well with the pancakes last Tuesday.



Does anyone know how long wines like this keep once opened?

I found it hard to get through a bottle of this over a number of days and it is only a half :shock:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:08 pm 
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I think after a week it would have lost its zing, even if vacuvin'd.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:09 pm 
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Thanks Mel

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:58 pm 
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This is lovely (if you like sweet wines). There is a lot going on. Label says

It has intense aromas of crystallised fruit, cinnamon and gingerbread and the myriad flavours of plum, prune, nuts & orange peel fill the mouth. The wine is sweet and the natural acidity and spicy oak give it a fresh, complex, lingering finish.

I'm not sure I got all of those but there was something else there which I could not put my finger on, but it came to me over the weekend after it had been open a few days. Maple Syrup. Might explain why it went wonderfully well with the pancakes last Tuesday.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:42 am 
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This is half price again. Pick one or two up and save it for Shrove Tuesday.

Yum.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:26 pm 
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£3.79 with free delivery this week.

Click

Im not a huge fan of stickies but will consider a bottle when next in store.

FWIW, I just got a super low quote for my car insurance from Tesco, quite surprising really when Id read all Insurance costs are heading north this year. Just saved myself £150, what shall I do with it?


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:36 pm 
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Churchill Douro Red?

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:37 pm 
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Just saved myself £150, what shall I do with it?

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Special reserve Monty Don parsnip wine ?

£50 per bottle from all dodgy allotment owners


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:40 pm 
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meljones wrote:
Churchill Douro Red?


Ohhhh ye... no.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:19 pm 
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I agree, but it was too apt to leave.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:11 pm 
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GK wrote:
£3.79 with free delivery this week.

FWIW, I just got a super low quote for my car insurance from Tesco, quite surprising really when Id read all Insurance costs are heading north this year. Just saved myself £150, what shall I do with it?


Well, with Crimble coming up, and you have a great Misses by the sound of it, and two lovely kids - Surely not difficult.

Save just enough to buy yourself a little treat, pick a nice vintage, pick what you want, pick one or two for what they are, rather than what you think is a bargain just now.

Saving a ton fifty is not something that confuses me that often :wink:

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:25 pm 
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If they saved me £150, I'd have free insurance and they'd be sending me a cheque as well.

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