There are various sparkling Shiraz from Oz too…you drink them cold. They can be unusually good. It helps to suspend belief!In Saumur they do a fizzy red, it's Cabernet Franc, demi-sec and rather odd. Think one part fizzy white, one part Ribena.
The Saumur rouge mousseux isn't unusually good. It's one to drink for novelty value. I lived 200 yards from Bouvet - Ladubay for 3 years, tasted it twice to be polite with visitors who did the tour, then concentrated on the sparkling white, which is excellent.There are various sparkling Shiraz from Oz too…you drink them cold. They can be unusually good. It helps to suspend belief!
don't think 1999 was a great vintage.
I opened a bottle of 1963 Sandeman a few years ago. It was fabulous. Unless it has been really abused, it should be fine. It will definitely need decanting and drinking up in a couple of days
Haven't drunk much port for years. I remember it as something that gets you drunk quickly: the opposite of what I want now.
I'm guessing many keep open bottles far too long. Maybe it should be more widely available in half bottles like sweet whites.
Always found it difficult to change down a gear from red to port, sipping with a lump of cheese is recommended but port is so moreish.
We've three whites in reserve to go with the pudding, all halves luckily.
My grandfather was in the trade and tasted most wines; his favourite was a Chateau D'Yquem.
Had to go to the megastore in Penzance to find this. It took three staff and ten minutes to get the security tag off because of it being encased in that odd plastic straight jacket. As our resident alcohol expert( apologies to gintonic) why for is this?This is decent stuff if you can stretch to the offer price of £15.
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/grahams-crusted-port-75cl
Perhaps the plastic collar removal courses haven’t been running due to Covid? When I bought a few bottles of Penfolds Bin 389 on Friday some bottles were tagged and some not. I deliberately chose four untagged ones thinking it would win me enough extra time at the checkout to have a cup of coffee.Had to go to the megastore in Penzance to find this. It took three staff and ten minutes to get the security tag off because of it being encased in that odd plastic straight jacket. As our resident alcohol expert( apologies to gintonic) why for is this?
(I’m not an alcohol expert, BTW - in fact I’m not an expert on anything that I’m aware of. But what booze knowledge I have runs out beyond port and sherry - I very rarely touch anything stronger nowadays.)