Category: France
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Day 123 – Chorlton
J-M Alquier Faugères la Maison Jaune 2014
This is an odd one. A few years ago I read a rather opinionated post on a wine forum saying that Mas de Daumas Gassac had completely lost the plot and that far better wines were coming out of other Languedoc vineyards.
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Day 120 – Rochdale
Dom. de la Butte Mi-Pente 2018
Doing a search through the website it seems I haven’t yet opened a Jacky Blot Bourgeuil during the walk.
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Day 118 – Charlestown
Zind-Humbrecht Muscat Goldert 2017
I’m not quite sure how the cellar logistics foul-up occurred, but I seem to have ended up with two Goldert bottles back-to-back.
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Day 116 – Oldfield
Ernest Burn Riesling Goldert la Chapelle 2011
I don’t think I’ve covered this particular Burn before. It won’t take long. It’s Riesling, and you know what that tastes like.
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Day 114 – Thornton-in-Craven
Chateau de Pitray 2016
Question: How much should you expect from a bottle of Bordeaux that cost 10€? Answer: Well, a bit more than this, sorry.
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Day 112 – Malham
Julien Sunier Fleurie 2018
Julien Sunier is, I’m led to believe by pundits who are paid to lead you to believe such things, almost as Young And Exciting as Matias Riccitelli.
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Day 110 – Silverdale
Bruno Sorg Pinot Gris Florimont 2016
Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, I’m ashamed to say. I looked in the holding wine cooler tonight for something to follow cook’s rainbow trout, chips and spring greens and felt a slight twinge of disappointment when I discovered this was the only bottle of white in there.
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Day 108 – Gearstones
Brunier Mégaphone 2016 (again)
Following on from the recent Lagrange, I’m eating my words again – this time the less-than-enthusiastic comments about my penultimate bottle of 2016 Mégaphone posted some 50 days ago.
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Day 106 – Hawdraw
Chateau Lagrange 2000
I bought a case of this en primeur, so they’ve been in the cellar for twenty years. This is the penultimate bottle, opened to celebrate 600 miles covered in my virtual walk.
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Day 99 – Cauldron Snout
Domaine de Saint Cosme Deux Albion Blanc 2018
A bit of a hiccup with this. I settled down to enjoy a bottle, but I feared something was wrong.