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G. D. Vajra Moscato 2012 24 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
At Elitistreview we move with the times and are always happy to embrace new technology – you may recall us publishing our organ on Google Currents. Well today we go one step further with a video tasti...
Elitistreview’s eighth anniversary dinner at The Bangkok Brasserie 1 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
Elitistreview is eight years today and, my, how it has blossomed into an artfully sculpted youth. I admit that before I had a course of Cognitive Behavioural therapy for psychosis in 2009 the posts we...
Please, be gentle with me… 26 Jul 2013 | 12:05 am
My exhortation in the title is both a reference to how I remember this wine caressing me on my last taste of it and also a plea regarding the hyper-critical faculties I know Elitistreview readers rend...
A super summer sparkler 10 Jul 2013 | 08:52 pm
Do not like Riesling? You are mad. Do not like Moscato? Christ… Well, do not worry, when they let you out of the secure ward (I can suggest some minimally nasty loony bins to book into) I have a great...
No holidays. None. Ever. 1 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
I originally wrote this piece for a minor publication and, having just re-read it and then tried to stiffen my upper lip, I thought it worthy of a wider and more enlightened audience. Luckily, with El...
An awfully agreeable Austrian 26 Jun 2013 | 12:50 pm
Austrian wines… Phew! One thing is sure and that is that the pork in cream sauce-noshers like them as heroically proportioned as their lunch servings. Certainly with whites, delicate, subtle grape var...
2012 German Riesling from Howard Ripley 12 Jun 2013 | 12:50 pm
The 2012 German Riesling tasting by Howard Ripley shows that I could well be out of a job. Virtually all the wines I tasted were of an extremely enjoyable standard and it is clearly another great vint...
Susan Wilk’s Tempest Bowl 4 Jun 2013 | 12:45 pm
It usually pays to be happy and enthusiastic. When my chum Susan Wilk let slip she was a part time ceramicist I gleefully leapt at her twitter account to grill her for information about what she makes...
Plump pleasure, fat fun 2 Jun 2013 | 12:41 am
It is a good job I have got over the dream of being a winemaker. Partly because it will never happen, but mostly because it is a total bastard of a job. The vineyard this Prum Riesling is grown in is ...
A guide to the best of the Hampshire Farmers Market 27 May 2013 | 12:30 pm
I love the Hampshire Farmers Market! The Editor and I enjoyed another cracking morning at the Winchester occurrence of Hampshire Farmers Markets today. We thought it would be a great service to you, o...
