Winemakers and wine critics are responsible for some of the most pretentious crap that ever flowed out of a word processor. But I did enjoy these descriptions from a Marlborough winemaker. Each starts with the usual tosh, then degenerates into self-parody:
Behave Pinot Noir 2006
A bold, gutsy Pinot Noir with plenty of weight and flavour, produced [...]
Entries from March 2009
Wednesday, 11 March, 2009
Truth in wine description
Sunday, 8 March, 2009
Martinborough Fair
Martinborough’s famous fair attracts many thousands of people to the town on the first Saturday of February and March every year. There’s plenty of tat and junk, as in the photo above, but there’s good stuff too – you just have to need it… Liz and I always have a poke around and I like [...]
Saturday, 7 March, 2009
Samuel Pepys
Yesterday a colleague told me one of his daily joys was reading the diary of Samuel Pepys. Every day my colleague gets an email containing the ‘current’ diary entry (the correct month and day, but from three and a half centuries earlier). I checked the website out and signed up too.
Pepys’ Diary is a [...]
Wednesday, 4 March, 2009
New kitten coming up
Parents of the Burmese kitten that may take over our lives from around early July. We visited the breeder in Upper Hutt last Sunday. Mum and Dad were mated last week and kittens are due on 25 April. They could throw as chocolate, seal, lilac or blue. We’ll train our kitten to travel in the [...]
