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2013 Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard (100/100pts)
The BIG enemy (or maybe not so ‘Gran Enemigo’ after all) 2013 vintage has just arrived, and ALL on the same day that the Argentine National… read more
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Competition Fever!
It`s Competiton time! We have just entered bottles of our last, well only, vintage of 2008 ‘Oro Verde’ Malbec de Xuxuy, into the 2018 World Malbec… read more
Nothing wrong with a Porterhouse lunch
Okay, now if you are a faithful reader of the bugga bloggy-blog it could sound like I am always having lunch. Well, you may not be… read more
Hiding or Hyding?
A hiding place or a hyding place? either way Hiding near Hyde Park, who would have guessed? That the now local Yevgeny Alexandrovich Chichvarkin has opened… read more
Another gastronomic icon bites the dust
The closure of another gastronomic icon, and once again an indigestible Michelin Star dinner. Same City, different restaurant.
A rare neon Dompers lights up the tasting…
Who would have thought that this esteemed brand of Champagne would need to put some trick up it’s own sleeve to catch more attention. Well, in… read more
The Clan gather in Palermo (not Sicily)
… okay so it’s not Palermo Sicilia, it’s Palermo Hollywood, wherever that maybe? “fuggedaboutit”. This Thing of Ours got together for a little geographical touching-base with the important… read more
2015 Sassicaia – a ‘classic’ vintage equal to the legendary 1985, JS
Bad information? maybe or perhaps? who really nose… I still cannot, on the whole, get used to reading vinous headlines like this one, and mainly I… read more
Oh does the cookie crumble?
What a funny olde world we are living in eh. In the last week, I have probably tasted and dined on more good wine, in six… read more
Traditional Specialities Guaranteed (1986 vintage) TSG
Tenuta San Guido (TSG) also happens to be the birth place and home, still, to the great Vino da Tavola, Sassicaia! Of the many wines that… read more