For those who are starting to believe I can’t taste anything in a vacuum. Well, you’re probably right – after all where’s the fun in that? So here we go – a single solitary bottle crouches before me.
Tasting conducted while listening to the latest nine inch nails release – yes I purchased the physical Halo [...]
Archive > July 2008
Storrs Merlot 2002
Assaggio Minor – a derivation
The Bad Man (that’s me) coined the phrase “assaggio minor” to indicate a “lesser” tasting wine review. This is to differentiate it from the official Royal Tannin Bomb more, err, “formal” tastings. I came up with the term assaggio based on the loose translation from English to Italian of the word “tasting”, but when back-translating [...]
Chenin Choot-out, mk i (assaggio minor)
Well, here it is my friends – my first Chenin Shoot-out under the auspices of The Royal Tannin Bombs leader and liege. And of course it proved the obvious – that South Africa, despite being a relatively sound approximation to France in style in many cases, is still struggling with some non-obtuse pronunciations of the [...]
OTHER beverages…
Just wanted to ask what “other” adult beverages people enjoy. I can’t add much, as I don’t care for pretty much any other drink – I especially hate beer; the hoppier the more difficult it is to get down my gullet. IF you’re going to drink beer, I say stick to the only real beer [...]
Chenin Choot-out – coming soon…
Chenin Blanc intercontinental shoot-out – coming soon… so stay tooned!
2006 Zinfandel tasting (assaggio minor)
Well, my first tasting of the 2006 Zinfandels was at hand. After laying down a foundation of proscuitto di parma I set off to taste two highly notable offerings from the likes of Ridge Vineyards and Sonoma’s Limerick Lane. This tasting was accompanied by Glenn Branca’s Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (1981), a post-modern symphonic [...]
Red, white or blush?
Greetings wine disciples everywhere…
Just an informal poll here to set our new blogger on her maiden voyage – what’s your favorite colour of wine? Sort of a short-sighted question, as I like some red first and foremost, then I like some white in preference to certain other reds, and so forth. But just in general, [...]
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