What are you eating and drinking tonight?

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:16 pm

Hey, you wine buffs, a question:

Just got a bottle of 2001 Reserva Castillo de Caltrava Tempranillo as a leaving present, product of La Mancha. I won't open it just to taste it but, how does it rate? What's the word Bruce?

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:24 pm

Should be pretty drinkable. Here's one review

Lovely red fruit and sweet oakiness. A easy drinking red from the La mancha region of Spain. Full of cherry and strawberry fruit. Great with tomato based dishes or on its own.

I'd drink it on its own - don't see why anyone else should get any.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:28 pm

Little Green Man wrote:Should be pretty drinkable. Here's one review

Lovely red fruit and sweet oakiness. A easy drinking red from the La mancha region of Spain. Full of cherry and strawberry fruit. Great with tomato based dishes or on its own.
I'd drink it on its own - don't see why anyone else should get any.

Cheers LGM.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:35 pm

Just as an aside; had lunch yesterday at Rice just off Oxford Road in Manchester. Pleasant surroundings, good food and reasonable prices. Worth a try if you're near one.

http://www.ricemanchester.com/page.php?18

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:39 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:Should be pretty drinkable. Here's one review

Lovely red fruit and sweet oakiness. A easy drinking red from the La mancha region of Spain. Full of cherry and strawberry fruit. Great with tomato based dishes or on its own.
I'd drink it on its own - don't see why anyone else should get any.
Cheers LGM.

I'm actually drink a Spanish Reserva Tempranillo at the moment. It's going rather well with a bowl of chili con carne.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:48 pm

Right now I'm halfway through a rather cheeky glass of Strongbow; I think it's a 2009. Fruity.

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:54 pm

CrazyHorse wrote:Right now I'm halfway through a rather cheeky glass of Strongbow; I think it's a 2009. Fruity.

Are you getting apples?

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:00 pm

Little Green Man wrote:
CrazyHorse wrote:Right now I'm halfway through a rather cheeky glass of Strongbow; I think it's a 2009. Fruity.

Are you getting apples?

Dunno, but somebody just shot two arrows into his coffee table.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:40 pm

old el paso chicken fajitas and 12 bottles of corona! gethefuckin!!!

all out of booze now tho, feeling a bit lost...

jaffka · Post by **jaffka** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:49 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:old el paso chicken fajitas and 12 bottles of corona! gethefuckin!!!

all out of booze now tho, feeling a bit lost...

time to pull out the spirits then

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:54 pm

jaffka wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:old el paso chicken fajitas and 12 bottles of corona! gethefuckin!!!

all out of booze now tho, feeling a bit lost...
time to pull out the spirits then

They don't clock on for another hour yet.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:56 pm

We had a party at ours last Saturday, so there's enough booze been left in the house to keep half of Manchester drunk for a week! Just knocked out the last Peroni, now I'm gonna try and see if I can stomach Budweiser (Might as well drink gthe contents of the toilet though)

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:08 pm

boltonboris wrote:We had a party at ours last Saturday, so there's enough booze been left in the house to keep half of Manchester drunk for a week! Just knocked out the last Peroni, now I'm gonna try and see if I can stomach Budweiser (Might as well drink gthe contents of the toilet though)

Had a couple of Peroni's at lunch time. 'Horse pxss' sprang to mind. I must be out of practise. A mug of tea tasted marvellous afterwards.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:09 pm

Peroni gives me a bad head, whether I have one or five.....gassy Italian shite methinks!

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:11 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
boltonboris wrote:We had a party at ours last Saturday, so there's enough booze been left in the house to keep half of Manchester drunk for a week! Just knocked out the last Peroni, now I'm gonna try and see if I can stomach Budweiser (Might as well drink gthe contents of the toilet though)
Had a couple of Peroni's at lunch time. 'Horse pxss' sprang to mind. I must be out of practise. A mug of tea tasted marvellous afterwards.

Agreed, I can't say I'm a fan but we had no Viru and the 12 bottles of wine we ordered were delivered next door in error (she's not in) and the rest of what we have in the house is the shite everyone else leaves. But hey ho, beer's beer when all said and done!!

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:12 pm

I'm sure I saw it somewhere that Peroni comes bottom of the blind taste tests - i.e. with none of the fancy glasses/other branding techniques.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:22 pm

Peroni's only good when ice ice cold - otherwise it suffers i the same way that bottled Stella does. It's so full of chemicals that it just tastes of chemicals unless almost frozen. At the right temperature, though, both are the best beer.

Had a lovely New Zealand white wine last night - Crux Marlborough Chardonnay. Half price in Wine Rack at the mo. As crisp a white as I've tasted for ages.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:00 am

TANGODANCER wrote:Hey, you wine buffs, a question:

Just got a bottle of 2001 Reserva Castillo de Caltrava Tempranillo as a leaving present, product of La Mancha. I won't open it just to taste it but, how does it rate? What's the word Bruce?

Twill be medium bodied, and tempranillo is the classic Spanish grape... A reserva is good news, but no idea about 2001... would be unusual though for Spanish wines to last much longer than that... I'd drink... with tomato based dishes, esp including fresh pasta... might be nice with salmon... lightish cheese...

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:40 am

I'm currently eating apple and blackberry crumble with a damson gin chaser while trying to forget that we played Chelsea at all this week. If I could be arsed to post in the other thread, I'd also be telling you I was listening to 2562's new album Unbalance, not that it's likely to be the remotest interest to anyone other than a passing cyber-archaeologist centuries hence (2562, if the gods of irony have anything to do with it).

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:29 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Hey, you wine buffs, a question:

Just got a bottle of 2001 Reserva Castillo de Caltrava Tempranillo as a leaving present, product of La Mancha. I won't open it just to taste it but, how does it rate? What's the word Bruce?

Just to come across as a know-it-all, Spanish wine is long barrel aged and then short bottle lifed, so is designed to be drunk when you buy it. Its very unique for that, as the rest of the world follows the French model (ie exactly the opposite). As it happens, Spain has a huge amount of Aussies in their wine trade now, who, whilst it pains me to say, know their onions when it comes to wine. As a consequence Spanish wine is a real banker. Spend a tenner on a bottle and drink like a king. Nowhere on earth delivers like that. Enjoy, Tango, I've spotted you like a bit of hispanic drop, it shouldn't dissapoint.

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