farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Is it the lemon thats Italian or the whole srink?
The lemon is part of the ingredients of the gin, which is also made in Italy. Quite nice overall - but it lacked the usual kick you get from gin.
Is it the lemon thats Italian or the whole srink?
Vina Ardenza Rioja. Lovely
Don't bet on there being much Rioja around in a few years time. Yesterday morning's late frost couldn't have come at a worse moment:
Early indications indicate loss of at least half the production in the Rioja Alta (and in Navarra).
Everybody is walking around my town looking as devastated as the vineyards, especially the independent grape growers and the winemakers who sell their entire production as young wine. The big companies will manage by upping the prices of their considerable stocks of earlier vintages.
blended melon.
I read something about making a drink from melon earlier and I have vodka and a melon so...
ModkaVodka melon
I ran out of recent purchases so have opened a bottle of the 2009 I "laid down".Strictly Cotes Du Rhone at the moment - "La Chasse" Réserve from Tesco - £6.99 a bottle ...
Lovely continuum of fruit, tannins and acidity ...cherry, maybe a little strawberry .. none of that over-oaking you get with New World wines.
gentlegreen, Nov 12, 2010
I ran out of recent purchases so have opened a bottle of the 2009 I "laid down".
Very smooth - though I can't detect those individual fruits ...