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...this year, is to try many different wines, note my favourites, compare them, and develop a taste for pairings.
The latest treat for dessert on Burns’ Night was a South Australian vin doux: The Bothie, 2005, from Torbreck.
It was a good wine to savour on its own. It was scented heavily with apricot and peach, rich but not unctuous. I would like this one again.

...is my favourite mid-evening thing these days. WelcomebacktoShinrock bought me a demi-bouteille after a hard Saturday of extra work. It smelled of peaches and minerals, soft and floral.

It is terminally trendy, but so much fun to try. Once you get past the giddy label, it is a pleasant trifle of a wine.

I tasted the perfect Virgo wine at Brenda’s Reveillon on Christmas Eve. Her friend, The Wine Snob, always shows up with delights from his cellar and is more than eager to have revellers taste what he’s brought.
This year, he had a lovely unoaky Chardonnay and a most perfect, softly off-dry German wine that was scented with lychee. He has a case of it, but it isn’t available anymore.
I should have squirreled away the label.

I tried her very fine Kali Hart Chardonnay. It was possibly the nicest Chardonnay so far. It had undertones of lime and orange flowers.

A very pleasant Chardonnay tasted first at La Belle Goulue’s house.

Today the weather was absolutely lovely- warm and dry and sunny- lovely enough to make a good beef daube with the 20 Bees cabernet merlot, plus some for the cook.
I am drinking it now. It is delightful! It smells like ripe dark cherries and plums.

This is a nice Haut Medoc.