So it was off to Selhurst Park yesterday, the home of Crystal Palace FC. They were playing ‘my’ team, Manchester City, and I’d been kindly invited along by Palace co-chairman…
Seven great affordable Austrian wines
A selfie wine tasting of seven good value Austrian wines. This tasting reminded me how much I really like Austrian wine.
A brilliant, affordable Austrian red
Here’s a really nice Austrian red at a great price. Just the sort of wine I love to drink. It has personality and freshness. Pittnauer ‘Pitti’ 2011 Burgenland, Austria A…
A brilliant Orange wine from Austria
Tried this today: it’s a brilliant Austrian skin-contact white. Just beautiful: one of the best examples of an ‘orange’ wine that I have tried. Schell Mann Achtung Wine 2007 Thermenregion,…
Two good, affordable Gruner Veltliners
I have a soft-spot for Gruner Veltliner, the wonderful Austrian white grape variety that the Kiwis are now beginning to plant. Here are two good, affordable examples. The problem with…
Two lovely Rieslings, Alsace and Austria
Two happy hunting grounds for Riesling: Alsace and Austria. These bottles satisfied, the Trimbach for its purity and freshness, and the Stadt Krems for its depth of flavour and richness of…
A remarkable evening of wine, with Burgundy, the Wachau, the northern Rhone, Champagne and Sherry
Had a fabulous dinner last night at Francis and Bronwen Percival’s pad in Borough Market with a group of wine nuts, including a Burgundy-resident Californian winemaker. Some lovely bottles came…
Loimer Gruner Veltliner Lois: great wine, great packaging
Lunch at the BFI today, on the south bank of the Thames, near Waterloo. The Benugo restaurant is actually pretty good, and I had a very well presented starter of…
Pfaffl Hundsleiten, a brilliant Austrian Gruner Veltliner
Grüner Veltliner is one of my favourite white grape varieties. It’s pretty much restricted to Austria, although New Zealand has now started paying attention to this variety, which has a…