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Robert `Barefootin` 101 points Parker (RiP 19 January 2020)
Everybody get on your feet… You make me nervous when you in your seat… Take off your shoes and pat your feet… We’re doing a dance that can’t be… read more
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A decade of Moo two thousand and two
As the dawn of our old decade passes by and we enter the new one, starting today with the second say of the year two thousand… read more
Another Vulture has landed…
Thanks to Elena Fucci and her husband, Andrea Manzani, a bottle of their latest release from Titolo has just arrived down here, and we managed to… read more
a little Leroy lunch for two…
2011 Leroy Volnay 1er Cru ‘Les Brouillards’ I love the fact that we can have a casual Tuesday lunch in one of the town’s finest eateries, and demolish… read more
El efecto Don X… Trinc!
To finish with sherry, or at least the sherries on my list, let me note a wonderful Pedro Ximenes, stamped `Sherry`, and furnished to me with… read more
Remember, remember the 5th of November
Dynamite wines! or just a drop of TnT in November (aka: trinitrotoluene or simply Turriga & Titolo) just in time for Guy Fawkes night. Two old favourite UK… read more
Bubbles in the bath by Ivor Windy-Bottom MW
Well, it is not everyday the phone rings and little ol’me gets invited to the Champagne tasting of the year (if not since ever down here… read more
A peaky Pinot and a rather flatty Fizz
There is current and weird phenomena going on. I hear, and I can see confusion, trouble and a certain amount of high level and rather (maybe)… read more
The glorious & the rather unglorious twelfth!
It’s sparrow’s fart on this 12th August 2019, inflation depending, ”up went 50 pounds, bang went 95 pence and down came ten quid” (as the old… read more
Chalking it up at El Cronista
Funny how an informal question or two over the telephone from a Maria-Paula, who I thought was going to be a client, can lead to an… read more