...and just stick to your favourite few wines.

early days for me. Long way to go & lots not tried.

Edit: Oh, and at least make the beer option more appealing than cooking lager !

Mel, has yet to cast her vote !

My favourites, aren't few, and many of them are stupid money these days.

Shezza, Do you cook with it, Euro foam & Co2 bubbles I mean ? An award for you, the ancient order of Froth Blowers:



I have enjoyed twice, a West-end Italian lunchtime indulgence, female courgette flowers basted in super light batter made with beer foam and then shoved into a super hot brick oven for 20 seconds, this at an expensive and rather trendy restaurant . They called them Zuchini something ? Mel will know - amazing delicacy.

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Duncan

I don't actually cook with it but rather use the phrase to describe watery tastless cr*p like the carlings and fosters of this world that aren't fit to drink

Mel, can you pull this thread. I didn't realise that you needed to be signed in to vote. It seems a bit silly to have a poll with only 4 votes.

G

Does no harm to leave it Mr G ?

There are 45 member who have written more than one post, and a dozen folks who have scribed more than 10 contributions.

Tis your thread though.

GK and Shezza can't stop experimenting, you could or want or think you should stop, and me wants to cut down on disappointment, when seeking a Revelation in a bottle for £9.99 Duh !

Because every vintage is unique (apart from the new dull and indifferent manufactured offerings) We all have to continue until we fall over

Goose - What about those 89 Loire's Huh. The peppery and hot stones 78 Rhone's still drive me to search for an inkling of that. I had a 78 Cote-Rotie Blonde en Brune that spoilt for ever and a day, what I could want from a rocky and steep slope. But then .....

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I would find it near impossible to stop wanting to try new styles, regions and recco's from people I trust. There is just so much out there, Germany for example, I would love to try more German wines, visit the wine producing regions and learn more about their history and classification system. Then Austria. Then....

To me, wine is more than just a drink, I think Maya summed it up perfectly when she said...
(Quote from Sideways)

'....how it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline. And it tastes so f**king good.'