What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Lord Kangana]

Hobgoblin, Black Sheep, Pedigree, Flat Cap, Landlord.... not necessarily in that order. Wasn't a wine evening William, bombay mix was about as sophisticated as the culinary delights got. Anyway, it is bedtime now, Christmas kicks off for me tommorow, and I won't be coming up for air til January.

[William the White]

Hobgoblin, Black Sheep, Pedigree, Flat Cap, Landlord.... not necessarily in that order. Wasn't a wine evening William, bombay mix was about as sophisticated as the culinary delights got. Anyway, it is bedtime now, Christmas kicks off for me tommorow, and I won't be coming up for air til January.

LOL!

I've got a potential pub evening coming up with a good, good mate who sent me a text a week ago saying we hadn't just had an evening at a pub for ages and how about it...

Good luck with the christmas rush, hope it's profitable for you, and you get to see the whites in the new year...

[Little Green Man]

LK - I have a bottle of Argie Malbec here. It's telling me that 50% of the grapes are from 1,100 mtrs asl, whereas the remaining 50% are from 700 mtrs asl. Is that significant in some way? It's very nice by the way, and although 14% abv isn't a tongue peeler by any stretch.

Gestos by any chance? Had a organic Argie malbec at the weekend too - it was surprisingly poor and left me with a nagging hangover for several hours. Shan't be buying that one again.

[Bruce Rioja]

Cheers for that, LK. Very interesting stuff.

[Prufrock]

I think I've turned the being able to drink red wine corner. Wine and cheese night last night for Classics Society, bloody lovely. Today Lamb Rogan Josh, with pasta, nom nom, and a South African merlot I nicked from last night. S'all good.

[William the White]

I think I've turned the being able to drink red wine corner. Wine and cheese night last night for Classics Society, bloody lovely. Today Lamb Rogan Josh, with pasta, nom nom, and a South African merlot I nicked from last night. S'all good.

Life takes on a redder glow... South african Merlot is likely to be pretty high in the stuff (tannins) that some people find they react against with red wine... If you enjoy that you'll be fine with more interesting things to come...

Mmmm... I'm remembering the first bottle of red wine that meant more than 'let's get pissed...'

Many years ago, at university, a celebration (birthday?) with a friend who drank wine ( which, up until then had been something you did at Yates's, and beer was my real drink)...

The bottle was a Chateauneuf du Pape that seemed incredibly expensive, but i tasted, with curiosity, and thought i had never had anything so delicious... a whole drinking habit changed by a single glass... Though it was years before i could afford the next bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape... and i've tasted many better wines since...

Still do the beer though...

[Bruce Rioja]

The bottle was a Chateauneuf du Pape that seemed incredibly expensive, but i tasted, with curiosity, and thought i had never had anything so delicious... a whole drinking habit changed by a single glass...

For me also. Many find Chateauneuf du Pape to be too peppery though. But yes, at that point I realised that you'll generally get what you pay for.

[William the White]

The bottle was a Chateauneuf du Pape that seemed incredibly expensive, but i tasted, with curiosity, and thought i had never had anything so delicious... a whole drinking habit changed by a single glass...

For me also. Many find Chateauneuf du Pape to be too peppery though. But yes, at that point I realised that you'll generally get what you pay for.

I still love it with red meat and casseroles... But it has to breathe... two hours or a splash-decant...

Though it's been superceded as wine of choice... An Hermitage, a Gevrey-Chambertin... and isn't in incredible that you can sometimes get Chateauneuf on supermarket offer for a tenner? That has to be tastes/fashion changing - market forces.

[Prufrock]

I think I've turned the being able to drink red wine corner. Wine and cheese night last night for Classics Society, bloody lovely. Today Lamb Rogan Josh, with pasta, nom nom, and a South African merlot I nicked from last night. S'all good.

Life takes on a redder glow... South african Merlot is likely to be pretty high in the stuff (tannins) that some people find they react against with red wine... If you enjoy that you'll be fine with more interesting things to come...

Mmmm... I'm remembering the first bottle of red wine that meant more than 'let's get pissed...'

Many years ago, at university, a celebration (birthday?) with a friend who drank wine ( which, up until then had been something you did at Yates's, and beer was my real drink)...

The bottle was a Chateauneuf du Pape that seemed incredibly expensive, but i tasted, with curiosity, and thought i had never had anything so delicious... a whole drinking habit changed by a single glass... Though it was years before i could afford the next bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape... and i've tasted many better wines since...

Still do the beer though...

Yep, red wine before has always been the, if it's all that's left I spose I'll get it down. Last night was an eye opener, spose tastes change. Hated Guiness when I was 16, now it's my drink of choice (if I'm not smoking, Guiness and cigarette smoke is disgusting). Red wine always used to taste like someone had sicked up some white wine. Am glad I can enjoy it now. Next stop making myself like bitter.

[Worthy4England]

I think I've turned the being able to drink red wine corner. Wine and cheese night last night for Classics Society, bloody lovely. Today Lamb Rogan Josh, with pasta, nom nom, and a South African merlot I nicked from last night. S'all good.

Life takes on a redder glow... South african Merlot is likely to be pretty high in the stuff (tannins) that some people find they react against with red wine... If you enjoy that you'll be fine with more interesting things to come...

Mmmm... I'm remembering the first bottle of red wine that meant more than 'let's get pissed...'

Many years ago, at university, a celebration (birthday?) with a friend who drank wine ( which, up until then had been something you did at Yates's, and beer was my real drink)...

The bottle was a Chateauneuf du Pape that seemed incredibly expensive, but i tasted, with curiosity, and thought i had never had anything so delicious... a whole drinking habit changed by a single glass... Though it was years before i could afford the next bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape... and i've tasted many better wines since...

Still do the beer though...

Yep, red wine before has always been the, if it's all that's left I spose I'll get it down. Last night was an eye opener, spose tastes change. Hated Guiness when I was 16, now it's my drink of choice (if I'm not smoking, Guiness and cigarette smoke is disgusting). Red wine always used to taste like someone had sicked up some white wine. Am glad I can enjoy it now. Next stop making myself like bitter.

Start with Joseph Holts' - everything else will seem like a breeze.

[General Mannerheim]

i really like the red, but thats all i know - not into different labels, types or producers etc. always just have the house red in a restaurant, and from the supermarket i pick up anything thats on offer for about a fiver! hmmm

you can keep your stinking bitter tho!

[William the White]

Tonight at la Tasca... With downloadable 50% off voucher - which saved us £15...

reports on here that it's totally lost its way exaggerated in my view...

food tasty, good, hot... and, once more, best house red in bolton (a medium bodied tempranillo, v slight vanilla).

million miles from an LK gourmet night - but, hey, that's tapas...

[Bruce Rioja]

reports on here that it's totally lost its way exaggerated in my view.....

Reader stunned. It's absolute shite. Good wine or no.

[TANGODANCER]

I had my wine education in Taverna Pedro on Halliwell. Carafe of the house white and it went well enough with his steak sandwiches. That's about it.

[William the White]

reports on here that it's totally lost its way exaggerated in my view.....

Reader stunned. It's absolute shite. Good wine or no.

It really isn't absolute shite on thursday nights, 7.15-9.50... For the following: lamb in red wine sauce (ok), 'white fish' (so far from a Spanish tapa it may have originated in darcy lever), chicken in garlic (good), mushrooms in garlic (better), manchego cheese - really nice, but didn't need the tomatoes intended, I guess to make up the 'portion' - patatas bravas, no better than ok (but that's often the case in Spain, though not in Sevilla, where they zing!)... Obviously, this may be the only time and only dishes that are not disgusting, and we just landed lucky...

Enjoyed the company, the red wine, and the food ok and rather better than shite... but if you want something special... take a detour...

[William the White]

I had my wine education in Taverna Pedro on Halliwell. Carafe of the house white and it went well enough with his steak sandwiches. That's about it.

Pedro himself was like a free cabaret once he got pissed at the end of the night, started singing and demonstrating his awesome ability with the porron, which, when he had white wine in it, looked like he was pouring piss into his mouth from a yard away... I liked the chilli as well as the steak sandwich...

Red wine with both of those, Tango, you feckin heathen!!!

[Prufrock]

Steak and Lager. Yes mate.

[CrazyHorse]

Strongbow and curry and Strongbow.

[TANGODANCER]

I had my wine education in Taverna Pedro on Halliwell. Carafe of the house white and it went well enough with his steak sandwiches. That's about it.

Pedro himself was like a free cabaret once he got pissed at the end of the night, started singing and demonstrating his awesome ability with the porron, which, when he had white wine in it, looked like he was pouring piss into his mouth from a yard away... I liked the chilli as well as the steak sandwich...

Red wine with both of those, Tango, you feckin heathen!!!

Difficul to tell what colour it was by the early hours.

Great character old Pedro though and (if you read those newspaper cuttings he had on the walls) , a real figure in the Spanish Cicil War.

[William the White]

I had my wine education in Taverna Pedro on Halliwell. Carafe of the house white and it went well enough with his steak sandwiches. That's about it.

Pedro himself was like a free cabaret once he got pissed at the end of the night, started singing and demonstrating his awesome ability with the porron, which, when he had white wine in it, looked like he was pouring piss into his mouth from a yard away... I liked the chilli as well as the steak sandwich...

Red wine with both of those, Tango, you feckin heathen!!!

Difficul to tell what colour it was by the early hours.

Great character old Pedro though and (if you read those newspaper cuttings he had on the walls) , a real figure in the Spanish Cicil War.

He liked to pretend so - but actually he was in the border guards, and so found it comparatively easy to get over the border in 1939 when the Fascist victory was confirmed... that said, he lived in exile most of his life... and that is sad...