Thanks Shez,

For sure.....The Rustenberg appeals to me as well. Did you come to a conclusion on '08 vintage widow - looks like a solid keeper - Eh ? If the '05 holds up and develops well over 5 years, then logic says the '08 would go on & on.

Great minds, I earmarked and looked into at Richard's Enira 2006 Bulgarian claret choice first thing this morning and it was in stock - Damn it. I also wanted to have a couple. There is also a Peloponnese claret I wanted to try. These southern Greek cabs, right down the peninsular near Monvasia are quite good, and natural & unfiltered generally. I tried them, when sailing there in the nineties. They are cooled by the afternoon mistral winds that are prevalent all thru the season.

Shez, I will go thru all the French wines If you wish - nothing really stood out when I flicked through the web pages. Fine French starts-off at strong money before the discount, but there will be middle rank wines that could interest you. Please Let me know your interest. I will get back to you on this thread later.

Majestic have the M. Chapoutier Belleruche CdR villages on offer again @ £6.99, the '07 was a good glugger and with food also, so the '09 could fit the midweek bill, wasn't that over enamoured by the '08, not such a rich and ripe vintage.

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Duncan

That's because Ocado and Waitrose are separate companies, and in competition with each other for home delivery.

This is just so wrong.

There isn't a whale caller, you can't call a whale. It is the Whale Crier who blows his kelp horn at Hermanus to announce whales.

Welcome back Captain...

The playwright and novelist Zakes Mda, an exile of some 30 years who took part in that debate, is among the most acclaimed exponents of a new artistic freedom. His fiction has a beguiling lyricism and humour, revelling in the beauty of aloe-covered mountains or Cape marine life. Yet The Whale Caller, his fifth and perhaps most imaginatively freewheeling novel, also captures malaise in the "new South Africa", where "rainbow people sport rainbow hairstyles" but walk as though without a past, without rancour, "in a precarious dream that may explode into a nightmare without much warning".

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