By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
Wine and food matching never excites as much debate as when the food in question is cheese. It is true that a corner of mousetrap or a wedge of supermarket Brie will take the rough edges off a glass of plonky red but great cheese deserves decent wine and the most pleasurable combination will often be with a white…
By Bibendumtimes
Despite some of the contenders enjoying various degrees of recovery (it was the night after our annual tasting, after all), it was with great pleasure that Bibendum Times hosted the final of the Bisol Food and Wine matching competition.
Niamh Shields (Eat like a Girl) discovered Bisol’s Prosecco while serving it at the Covent Garden Real Food Market. …
Chasing the cocoa dragon
Now that we have got over the festive splurging and the loosening of our previously-tightened belts, probably due to much over-indulging, it is time to set our sights on more taxing issues. Forget about for whom you will vote at the upcoming election, stamp duty holidays, …
By Mike Britton
As my train from Genoa chugged slowly into the beautiful hills and valleys of the Piemonte region in North West Italy, I cast my thoughts forward to the weekend, where I would be attending the famous Alba truffle festival.
My very good friends, Neil and Richie, have owned a house in this area for a year now and not only do …
By Wine90, http://wine90.blogspot.com/
Yarden Gewurztraminer? Yes. There’s something spellbinding about Krakow and its old Jewish quarter. It was here on a warm summer’s evening that I got my first taste of Kosher Gewurztraminer and of gefilte fish. I look spellbound there don’t I? Gazing off into the distance romanticising about my very own wine bar in Krakow? Well, the camera tells dirty lies, cos I’m actually …
By Rupert Maclaren
Chocolate and Mexican wine
Some say it can’t be done, other that it shouldn’t be done.
Chocolate has always been tricky when it comes to …
By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
One of the huge benefits of living on the coast in a place like Aldeburgh (in fact, the main benefit) is having a fisherman like Dean Fryer on your doorstep selling that day’s catch. Normally, when he catches lobsters in his pots he boils them and sells them pink and ready to devour cold with, say, mayonnaise. If you catch him early …
By Martin Day
Just before
The drive to Valdepusa threw up a couple of surprises. …
By Kate Sarginson
Lobster Medallion with Blue Swimmer Crab, Prawn Ravioli and Lobster Bisque followed by Beef Fillet Steak with Potato, Provolone Galette and Truffle Salsa – no I haven’t been expensing it in the Ramsay Empire. I assure you the view I had from this restaurant knocks the socks off anything Gordon can offer. This is the modest lunchtime offering I devoured on a recent visit …
By Willie Lebus
The line up
A cast of twenty wine and food lovers converged on Quo Vadis in late November to taste ten 2000 Red Bordeaux and sit down to a feast of great food and wine.
THE TASTING
The following wines were up for tasting: Calon Segur, Cos d’Estournel, Figeac, Gruaud Larose, Leoville Barton, Mouton Rothschild, Peby Faugeres, Petit Village, Talbot and Trotanoy. First the …
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