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Lunch today at Francis and Bronwen Percival’s place in Borough Market. As you’d expect, fabulous food and drink. Also present, Neil Beckett and Jasmine Hirsch. It was a lovely afternoon, and my brief notes on the wines and food can’t do it justice. We began with two excellent Champagnes. You always<\/em> get good Champagne here.<\/p>\n Champagne C\u00e9dric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Blanc de Noirs NV France We then continued with some excellent food, well matched with lovely wines. And, of course, some of the best British cheeses.<\/p>\n Wine needs to be put into context. There is only limited pleasure in wine on its own. While people like me obsess about great bottles, in truth there is only a certain amount of joy to be had from even the most incredible wine aside from the context of sharing a bottle with good company, and – ideally – matched with lovely food. Gastronomic pleasure needs to be in context, and to be honest we’d still have had a lovely lunch if only modest wines were served because of the context. But in this context, great wines are free to express themselves to their full extent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lunch today at Francis and Bronwen Percival’s place in Borough Market. As you’d expect, fabulous food and drink. Also present, Neil Beckett and Jasmine Hirsch. It was a lovely afternoon,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>This is a vintage 2007 wine. It’s a lovely bold, toasty rich style that’s powerful but refined with some precise lemony notes. Lively and intense with real power and focus. 93\/100
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\nChampagne Marie-No\u00eblle Ledru\u00a0Ambonnay Grand Cru 2006 France<\/strong>
\nAn insider Champagne. Marie-No\u00eblle Ledru owns six hectares of vines, five of which are in Ambonnay, and riddles and disgorges all her bottles by hand. This is very fine and complex with lemony, herby notes. It’s taut with a bit of spice and nice lemony notes. Complex and thrilling. 94\/100<\/p>\n![\"IMG_7571\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7571.jpg\")
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\nLe Macchiole Paleo 2004 Tuscany, Italy<\/strong>
\nThis is a varietal Cabernet Franc. It shows sweet, ripe, rich and smooth gravelly black cherry and blackberry fruits. Ripe, yes, but so fine and delicious with lovely fruit intensity. Compelling. 93\/100<\/p>\n![\"IMG_7575\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7575-500x335.jpg\")
\nWeinbach Riesling Grand Cru Schlossberg Cuv\u00e9e Sainte Catherine L’In\u00e9dit 2009 Alsace, France<\/strong>
\nThis is a special cuvee of Riesling from Weinbach, and it’s amazing stuff. Powerful, dry, spicy and intense with notes of citrus, lime, honey and pear. Off dry, concentrated and precise. 94\/100<\/p>\n![\"IMG_7576\"](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_7576-500x339.jpg\")
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\nKracher Nouvelle Vigne Zwiegelt TBA No 1 2004 Burgenland, Austria<\/strong>
\nRemarkable stuff. Orange\/brown colour with some red hints. Sweet, intense and spicy with notes of raisins and herbs. So rich and textural, this is a dense, almost structured sweet wine of great intensity. 93\/100<\/p>\n