Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, The Wine List
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).
Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Wine books
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.
Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Wine, Wine books
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 [...]
Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Wine books
Don’t want to commit to a wine course? Get this book instead and “learn” from home.
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Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Wine books
Whether you’ve been smitten or bitten by wines from Burgundy, this wine book is for you.
Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Wine, Wine books, €20-€30
If you only ever buy one wine book, then this probably should be it.
Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Wine, Wine books
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.
No such thing as great vintages, just great bottles? Perhaps so, as this 2001 Bressan Pinot Nero really sucked.
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Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Video, White wine, €15-€20
Yours truly video tasting of one my favourite white wines of the moment, a “Friendly Gruner Veltliner”.
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Saved in Red wine, Sour Grapes recommends, Wine, €10-€15
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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