Gluck, yeah, what's he up to now? I was a regular poster on his Superplonk forum back in the day. I liked the way he got up the noses of certain people in the wine trade. I admire anyone who's not afraid to put their foot in their mouth occasionally.

On second thoughts..... you may have hit on something there G, is there a an opportunity for an organic allotment growing wine nerd to start a niche site?

parsnipsandpinot.co.uk ?
corkandkale.co.uk ?
gettingpissedintheshed.co.uk ?

I was also a regular on Superplonk. See Malcolm from time to time. I think he's got a few books in the pipeline.

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mel

I still have some of the old Superplonk books and they can be very useful at times but I began to find Gluck to be something of an inverted snob. Often relying on cheap shots to knock the French with comments like ' this £5 vin du pays wine is as good as Sancerre at twice the price ' which was true in the sense that it was bloody awful and some Sancerre is bloody awful but it's a bit misleading for the punter trying to find enjoyable wines at the £5 mark.

Also if a wine was a couple of pounds more expensive than he thought it should be he crucified the price and forgot about the wine. A comment like ' Classic unoaked Chablis but too expensive at £12 ' would be fine but ' £12 no way ! ' is not helpful at all.

Still......if he brought Superplonk back i'd still buy it as he gets through even more supermarket wines than Bacchus.

I agree. I enjoyed his writing style, but got a bit fed up of him going off on one, far out of proportion to the issue. And the rudeness to great wines got on my tits as well.

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On offer yet again and '09 still a good deal. Not a huge kick, not wimpy. A sort of Goldilocks efffort. Unintrusive but very drinkable with hints of all the right stuff. Sorry purists, I like this.