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Category: Wine
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Tiny Pleasures #119: The Wine Nose
The Wine Nose – Le Nez du Vin – is a wonderful collection of 52 tiny vials containing aromas found in wine. I got it out tonight to prepare for my wine exam and was reminded how fun it is to stimulate the olfactory senses. Is that lemon or grapefruit? Truffle or Mushroom? One smells…
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Tiny Pleasures #88: Afternoon Wine
There’s a special joy in the first afternoon of holidays. You’ve had time to wind down and your brain has almost accepted that can now relax and settle into holiday mode. A wine mid-afternoon wine feels like the perfect marker of the transition into the new state. It has hint of naughty and good dash…
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Tiny Pleasures #84: Sunday Wine Tasting
What better way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon than tasting an interesting line up of wines and talking about the wines, winemaking and life in general. Some new, some old, all tasty and with a story. Such a pleasure to nerd out about wines in good company.
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Tiny Pleasures #82: Good Wine in a Cheap Motel
Good wine still tastes good in thick motel glasses with brown wood paneling and 70s art. Maybe it even tastes better in these surroundings.
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Tiny Pleasures #81: Baklava & Sauvignon Blanc
Tis flavour match made in heaven and discovered quite by chance. But it’s not really surprising – the acidity and bright citrus fruit flavours of the wine cut through the sticky sweetness of the baklava, the latter balancing it all with butter pastry and nuttiness. Do your taste buds a favour and try it!
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Tiny Pleasures #5: Very Old Books
What a treat to find the original manuscript of something centuries old at the tap of a button. I’ve been learning an old French drinking song – Chanson à Boire – and discovered today that it was published in 1615 by Gabriel Bataille. A little more digging down the rabbit hole of the internet and…
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Tiny Pleasures #2: Fumé Blanc
My first wine of 2024 is an aged Fumé Blanc (is because there’s still a bit in the bottle). One of the wonderful things about being interested in wine for a couple of decades is that I now have a rather good collection of aged wines. The thing with age though, is that you never know…
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Happiness as Anarchy #133: $4 wine
Buying wine is always a tricky exercise, especially when in a new country. Last night I had a very ordinary bucket of wine with my dinner (I only drank half of it) which did not make me happy. Today’s mission: acquire a decent bottle of wine. This I did, but twas with trepidation that I…
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Happiness as Anarchy #128: Airport Champagne
Walking through the international double doors in Melbourne Airport always makes me grin like a cheshire cat. Once you’re through there’s no going back – whatever you packed is it, whatever you forgot to organise at home has to take care of itself, and the adventure has begun. The cherry on the top, however, is…