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OP - December 08, 2012, 08:33 AM

I went to a wine tasting evening last night. I was driving so I had only sips, but wonderful!

Evening concluded with a Waitrose syrah red 2008 Hermitage Cave de Tain, £24.99 and a 1977 Waitrose Madeira Camara de Lobos, cost £55, both heavenly.

The Madeira took me straight back to various great aunts and old front rooms.

We started the evening with some sparkling whites, a Chardonnay and one from Sussex! Then a champagne.

We then moved to a variety of sherries. Not yer Harvey's Bristol Creme but proper stuff, an Oloroso, a fino, a Manzanilla and a Palo Cortado.

The sherries were recommended to be eaten with ham from pigs fed on acorns.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #1 - December 09, 2012, 07:38 PM

So I spend an evening doing stuff that allegedly will send me to hell and no one responds?

The Madeira especially was very impressive. It seems Madeira is too far south to get good grapes, and to make it worse, it was used as ballast in ships and the captains would forget it was there, it would be left in ships for months, often crossing the equator several times! This just improves it though, modern methods include cooking it at 45C!

And pork fed on acorns.

I have had a glimmer of what superb tasting stuff is about - the beginnings of opening a new world.

Is this so dangerous, actually enjoying life?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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