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Bought into Naked Wines Seasonal Deal this year. Seems like a decent selection, 16 bottles of wine plus a Champers plus a Port plus various free odds and sods. The problem is though that they're getting delivered today, so, if I'm honest, Clive James has more chance of seeing Christmas.
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Be strong! Remember the diet!Bruce Rioja wrote:Bought into Naked Wines Seasonal Deal this year. Seems like a decent selection, 16 bottles of wine plus a Champers plus a Port plus various free odds and sods. The problem is though that they're getting delivered today, so, if I'm honest, Clive James has more chance of seeing Christmas.
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Ours was delivered today.. A really good selection last year.. Lasted almost a week too, which was goodBruce Rioja wrote:Bought into Naked Wines Seasonal Deal this year. Seems like a decent selection, 16 bottles of wine plus a Champers plus a Port plus various free odds and sods. The problem is though that they're getting delivered today, so, if I'm honest, Clive James has more chance of seeing Christmas.
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Don't be surprised if Wigan White is around shortly to comment on your post!!LeverEnd wrote:I bought some wine from Virgin recently, very disappointing. Naked was much better, will give it a go again in the New Year.
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Majestic have got 33% off all Rioja 'til monday. Some real bargains* to be had. And its only a minimum 6 bottle purchase these days with free delivery.
*Bargain is quite a pejorative word, but the overwhelming majority are genuine discounts from what are usually the cheapest decent Rioja retailers on the market.
*Bargain is quite a pejorative word, but the overwhelming majority are genuine discounts from what are usually the cheapest decent Rioja retailers on the market.
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Surely 33% off Rioja belongs in the Fight the Flab thread....
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Majestic actually f*cked up and sent me better wines than I'd ordered. I'm not complaining.
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The daftness and delights of Aldi continue...
Did anyone else see the supermarket champagne tasting in The Guardian last week?
They did a blind taste test of every supermarket's 'The Best... Taste the Difference... etc' own brand champagne, typically around £20 - 25 mark. And sneaked a £90.00 quid number in as well.
The joint winner? The 90.00 quid number. And Aldi's £9.99 Montigny brut...
I bought one onf these last Saturday - it didn't cost £90...
i also bought a £5.99 (I think) Valenciana Red, Gran Reserva from Utiel-Requena from their 'Exquisite' range. Glass no 2 is before me now. This is a real bargain. Give it a bit of air, it has fruit and finish, medium-full and 13.5 abv.
Tempranillo and four other grapes. smooth. Just impossible to get this good at this price. Pasta Puttanesca awaits...
Did anyone else see the supermarket champagne tasting in The Guardian last week?
They did a blind taste test of every supermarket's 'The Best... Taste the Difference... etc' own brand champagne, typically around £20 - 25 mark. And sneaked a £90.00 quid number in as well.
The joint winner? The 90.00 quid number. And Aldi's £9.99 Montigny brut...
I bought one onf these last Saturday - it didn't cost £90...
i also bought a £5.99 (I think) Valenciana Red, Gran Reserva from Utiel-Requena from their 'Exquisite' range. Glass no 2 is before me now. This is a real bargain. Give it a bit of air, it has fruit and finish, medium-full and 13.5 abv.
Tempranillo and four other grapes. smooth. Just impossible to get this good at this price. Pasta Puttanesca awaits...
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It was bream tonight from the market - and not as good as anticipated.
However, the wine was revelatory - an English dry white, aromatic, quite acidic, from Gloucestershire. Called Three Choirs from the Stonebrook Estate. The best English wine I've tasted.
We bought it from The Wine Society - part of an 'Adventurers Case' of wines from unusual places - in this case Montenegro, Slovenia, Uruguay - and Gloucester. Nothing wrong with an adventure starting on the Welsh border.
However, the wine was revelatory - an English dry white, aromatic, quite acidic, from Gloucestershire. Called Three Choirs from the Stonebrook Estate. The best English wine I've tasted.
We bought it from The Wine Society - part of an 'Adventurers Case' of wines from unusual places - in this case Montenegro, Slovenia, Uruguay - and Gloucester. Nothing wrong with an adventure starting on the Welsh border.
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What was your level of bream anticipation?William the White wrote:It was bream tonight from the market - and not as good as anticipated.
However, the wine was revelatory - an English dry white, aromatic, quite acidic, from Gloucestershire. Called Three Choirs from the Stonebrook Estate. The best English wine I've tasted.
We bought it from The Wine Society - part of an 'Adventurers Case' of wines from unusual places - in this case Montenegro, Slovenia, Uruguay - and Gloucester. Nothing wrong with an adventure starting on the Welsh border.
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Bought it from my favourite fishmonger - expected it to be very good. It was all right.Bruce Rioja wrote:What was your level of bream anticipation?William the White wrote:It was bream tonight from the market - and not as good as anticipated.
However, the wine was revelatory - an English dry white, aromatic, quite acidic, from Gloucestershire. Called Three Choirs from the Stonebrook Estate. The best English wine I've tasted.
We bought it from The Wine Society - part of an 'Adventurers Case' of wines from unusual places - in this case Montenegro, Slovenia, Uruguay - and Gloucester. Nothing wrong with an adventure starting on the Welsh border.
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Hmm. Got some gilt-head bream from the same place once. Was very good indeed. Mind you, I baked it with garlic and rosemary which, of course, may have been key.William the White wrote:Bought it from my favourite fishmonger - expected it to be very good. It was all right.Bruce Rioja wrote:What was your level of bream anticipation?William the White wrote:It was bream tonight from the market - and not as good as anticipated.
However, the wine was revelatory - an English dry white, aromatic, quite acidic, from Gloucestershire. Called Three Choirs from the Stonebrook Estate. The best English wine I've tasted.
We bought it from The Wine Society - part of an 'Adventurers Case' of wines from unusual places - in this case Montenegro, Slovenia, Uruguay - and Gloucester. Nothing wrong with an adventure starting on the Welsh border.
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Bream and snapper and whiting along with tailor are probably the most commonly caught fish by amateur shore fishers in this neck of the woods. To my palate the bream and snapper are fine but the whiting is my preferred fresh food treat. I've only ever caught one tailor and it went back home as it was a bit small (but they are a good fighting fish for the sportsmen among us, although a good strong trace is essential if you want to retrieve your hook and lure) so I can't judge it on the fresh food scale.
Estuary fishing will bring a whole host of targets, the most common is probably the flathead. It too is quite good when freshly caught, scaled and gutted. They seem to like sandy bottoms; my wife caught a 750mm beast on a hand-reel once just tossing in the hook and bait from the shoreline (needless to say I caught nothing that day). Supermarket frozen fish? 'Nuff said. Cooking? Like steak and other meat I prefer it as it is; basting it with bits and bobs such as garlic and herbs seems to me a waste of a good tasting morsel, as does slathering the finished product with a sauce or gravy.
Freshwater fishing I have not tried. Trout and bass are readily available if you want to travel many miles to find a suitable river or creek or a stocked lake. Bass is a protected species though as the European Carp has made a mess of the locals over the years. The carp grow to huge sizes and should never be released back to the wild. I doubt that they'd make good eating anyway. I do have a river within about a ten to fifteen minute drive but I've been told that the only thing to be found there is mullet, which I have also been advised is a muddy tasting piece of the piscean world.
Estuary fishing will bring a whole host of targets, the most common is probably the flathead. It too is quite good when freshly caught, scaled and gutted. They seem to like sandy bottoms; my wife caught a 750mm beast on a hand-reel once just tossing in the hook and bait from the shoreline (needless to say I caught nothing that day). Supermarket frozen fish? 'Nuff said. Cooking? Like steak and other meat I prefer it as it is; basting it with bits and bobs such as garlic and herbs seems to me a waste of a good tasting morsel, as does slathering the finished product with a sauce or gravy.
Freshwater fishing I have not tried. Trout and bass are readily available if you want to travel many miles to find a suitable river or creek or a stocked lake. Bass is a protected species though as the European Carp has made a mess of the locals over the years. The carp grow to huge sizes and should never be released back to the wild. I doubt that they'd make good eating anyway. I do have a river within about a ten to fifteen minute drive but I've been told that the only thing to be found there is mullet, which I have also been advised is a muddy tasting piece of the piscean world.
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Ice Wine. I'd never heard of it before tonight. A bit of me would like to try it but most of me cannot stand sweet / dessert wines. Maybe with a bit of blue cheese perhaps? Anyone?
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Don't know Ice Wine. But sweet wines and blue cheese are an outstanding match for each other (was LK that first pointed me this way, and I'm very glad he did).Bruce Rioja wrote:Ice Wine. I'd never heard of it before tonight. A bit of me would like to try it but most of me cannot stand sweet / dessert wines. Maybe with a bit of blue cheese perhaps? Anyone?
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Preferably port and Stilton. I'm not sure what is this Ice Wine, but the German equivalent, Eiswein, has been around for many years. I have had it and enjoyed. It isn't made every year but only when an early unexpected frost freezes the grapes on the vines. I suppose that, since it have been a success, it may be made every year through artificial means.William the White wrote:Don't know Ice Wine. But sweet wines and blue cheese are an outstanding match for each other (was LK that first pointed me this way, and I'm very glad he did).Bruce Rioja wrote:Ice Wine. I'd never heard of it before tonight. A bit of me would like to try it but most of me cannot stand sweet / dessert wines. Maybe with a bit of blue cheese perhaps? Anyone?
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Apparently Canada is one of its major producers.Montreal Wanderer wrote:Preferably port and Stilton. I'm not sure what is this Ice Wine, but the German equivalent, Eiswein, has been around for many years. I have had it and enjoyed. It isn't made every year but only when an early unexpected frost freezes the grapes on the vines. I suppose that, since it have been a success, it may be made every year through artificial means.William the White wrote:Don't know Ice Wine. But sweet wines and blue cheese are an outstanding match for each other (was LK that first pointed me this way, and I'm very glad he did).Bruce Rioja wrote:Ice Wine. I'd never heard of it before tonight. A bit of me would like to try it but most of me cannot stand sweet / dessert wines. Maybe with a bit of blue cheese perhaps? Anyone?
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Yes, I've seen it in the stores along with Ice Cider, but I've never tried it and no nothing about it except it seemed to me to be overpriced.Bruce Rioja wrote:Apparently Canada is one of its major producers.Montreal Wanderer wrote:Preferably port and Stilton. I'm not sure what is this Ice Wine, but the German equivalent, Eiswein, has been around for many years. I have had it and enjoyed. It isn't made every year but only when an early unexpected frost freezes the grapes on the vines. I suppose that, since it have been a success, it may be made every year through artificial means.William the White wrote:Don't know Ice Wine. But sweet wines and blue cheese are an outstanding match for each other (was LK that first pointed me this way, and I'm very glad he did).Bruce Rioja wrote:Ice Wine. I'd never heard of it before tonight. A bit of me would like to try it but most of me cannot stand sweet / dessert wines. Maybe with a bit of blue cheese perhaps? Anyone?
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No wine buff me, but I've had a glass or two of a nice Spanish sweet sherry with slices of mature Blue Stilton over the period. Gets a thumbs up from me..William the White wrote:Don't know Ice Wine. But sweet wines and blue cheese are an outstanding match for each other (was LK that first pointed me this way, and I'm very glad he did).Bruce Rioja wrote:Ice Wine. I'd never heard of it before tonight. A bit of me would like to try it but most of me cannot stand sweet / dessert wines. Maybe with a bit of blue cheese perhaps? Anyone?
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