The Wine List: Koh Restaurant

Posted on February 6th, 2009 No Comments yet

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A restaurant review with a twist. I’m focusing on the wine list of the restaurant, Koh, a Thai/Asian fusion restaurant in Mick Wallace’s Italian Quarter just off Dublin’s Abbey Street (okay, it’s officially named the Millennium Walkway).

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Wine Book Review: Oz Clarke’s Bordeaux

Posted on January 27th, 2009 No Comments yet

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Without having his travelling buddy, James May, in tow, Oz Clarke has been able to focus and create a seminal work on Bordeaux, making what is a tough area to get to grips with a far more accessible place.

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Wine Book Review: The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization

Posted on January 26th, 2009 No Comments yet

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How I Saved the World from Parkerization (by Alice Feiring) is a well thought out, clearly presented book about how wines are being made to suit one particular person’s palate. The background To gain the recognition and high scores from one of the world’s most influential wine writers, Robert Parker, winemakers will adopt certain winemaking techniques. The [...]

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Wine Book Review: How to Taste by Jancis Robinson

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 No Comments yet

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Don’t want to commit to a wine course? Get this book instead and “learn” from home.

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Wine Book Review: The Wines of Burgundy

Posted on January 21st, 2009 1 Comment

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Whether you’ve been smitten or bitten by wines from Burgundy, this wine book is for you.

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Wine Book Review: The World Atlas of Wine

Posted on January 19th, 2009 1 Comment

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If you only ever buy one wine book, then this probably should be it.

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Wine Book Review: The Judgement of Paris

Posted on January 18th, 2009 No Comments yet

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It’s 1976. Relatively unknown wines from California head over to Paris, give some of the best French wines one hell of a beating and in doing so, revolutionise the global wine industry. And there’s a genuinely interesting book about all this.

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Quick review of Bressan Pinot Nero 2001: it’s crap

Posted on January 12th, 2009 7 Comments

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No such thing as great vintages, just great bottles? Perhaps so, as this 2001 Bressan Pinot Nero really sucked.

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Video tasting: Friendly Grüner Veltliner 2007 by Laurenz V.

Posted on January 8th, 2009 8 Comments

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Yours truly video tasting of one my favourite white wines of the moment, a “Friendly Gruner Veltliner”.

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Wine blogging Wednesday 44: French Cabernet Franc

Posted on April 1st, 2008 2 Comments

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For the 44th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, and my second, the theme is French Cabernet Franc, hosted by Gary Vaynerchuk over on WLTV.

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