Category: Virtual Knapsack
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Day 86 – still a long way from anywhere
Penfolds Bin 2 2016
More shopping in France. The nice folks at Carrefour Market emailed me a voucher for 8€ off any spend, which I spent today on olive oil and salt-crystal butter.
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Day 84 – a long way from anywhere, again
La Bastide Saint Dominique Cotes-du-Rhone 2018
After my trip to Belgium (see previous post) I visited St Omer, and the town’s branch of Monsieur Vin (a small chain of merchants.)
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Day 82 – a long way from anywhere
Ch. les Cruzelles 2015
A few months ago I was made aware of Ch. les Cruzelles by a merchant who was offering the 2019 in bond.
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Day 81 – On the Border
Famille Perrin Ventoux 2019
As Lego Marchbanks straddles the border between Scotland and England, I’m up at 4.30am tomorrow to cross from England into France.
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Day 79 – Coldstream
Ernest Burn Gewurtztraminer la Chapelle 2016
Yet another bottle from Ernest Burn. I’m starting run out of things to say about these wonderful wines.
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Day 77 – Norham
Chateau Montus 2010
My name is Marchbanks and I’m a Montus-oholic. The first step is admitting it. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every wine I’ve ever tasted by Alain Brumont – Montus, various levels of Bouscassé and especially the one (to date) sublime bottle of la Tyre.
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Day 75 – Burnmouth
J-P Brun Terres Dorées Le Ronsay
From the same Beaujolais whizz that brings us l’Ancien, this is the domaine’s ‘entry level’ offering.
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Day 73 – St Abbs Head
Bellingham Bernard Series Roussanne 2020
Not one of the more ubiquitous single varietals, and apparently sometimes confused with Viognier – on at least one occasion controversially so.
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Day 71 – Cove
Gran Enemigo Gualtallary 2014
The way my legendarily fallible memory tells it, it happened like this…
My globe-trotting, wine-loving friend found himself in a Buenos Aires restaurant after the other customers had left, and in deep discussion with the sommelier.
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Day 69 – Dunbar
Chateau Lamothe-Bergeron 2010
How many famous people came from Dunbar? Well, there’s that actor bloke who played a cop, Aynsley of course, who played with Zappa – and John Muir, whose trail I have been following since Holyrood Park.