Mar 06 2010

Custom Wine Racks - Essential Or Perhaps Luxury?

Tag: wine and spiritsFoodAndDrink @ 3:34 am

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The time as well as the effort necessary to find that specific wine rack are sometimes simply not worth the pain. And it just could be the case that you’ll not find the specific dimension or even the specific style. If so custom made wine storage racks are unavoidable. Then again some rare but truly dedicated wine collectors will not ruin their hopes for a great custom wine storage rack.

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Feb 27 2010

Do You Decide On Which Wine To Drink In Your Home?

Tag: wine and spiritsFoodAndDrink @ 6:46 am

It’s strange how different we all are when we choose our wine.

Some people are such wine snobs and know exactly what they are looking for and certainly won’t settle for anything less. It doesn’t seem to bother them how expensive the bottle is, even if it costs over a hundred pounds.

Other people may choose a wine just for the colour and packaging on the bottle. I will admit that some wines are packaged from a real marketing point of view, but that doesn’t mean the wine tastes any good.

Some folks don’t drink red wine because it gives them a stinking headache the following morning. Perhaps this could be because they have drunk too much!!

I can’t drink white or rose wine, unless it happens to be fizzy. A favourite Spanish Wine that fits into this category is the classic Cava. I love Cava, infact I can honestly say I prefer it to Champagne. If you can get your hands on a decent bottle of Vintage Cava then you really can’t go wrong. It’s always a favourite in our house when we have something to celebrate.

I also enjoy the odd glass of red wine. Funnily enough though I absolutely love my red wine served chilled and the colder the better. I can hear the cries of wine snobs all over the place crying out you can’t chill red wine, but that’s what I like to do and if I enjoy it that way, then that’s how I am going to drink it. A nice bottle of red is a Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a beautiful Chilean Wine that tastes superb.

I will say that I am not particularly fond of French Wine. I think it’s due to the fact that I’m not keen on the French full stop, so I tend not to buy their wine!!


Feb 26 2010

I Love A Tipple, But Perhaps Consume Too Many Units In A Week

Tag: wine and spiritsFoodAndDrink @ 1:58 pm

The past weekend was yet another boozy one for me. It’s got to the point now where come Saturday afternoon I feel the need for a drink and I don’t care what it is.

This Saturday I had polished off a bottle of Spanish Wine before 4pm. The problem is I knock back a bottle of wine like it’s a drink of water. If the truth be told it is definitely getting a problem and I know it’s time to knock it on the head.

It used to be when I went shopping on a Friday I would just get one bottle of wine for the weekend. Now I buy at least 3 bottles of wine so we can have one a night during the weekend.
Last week the supermarket had offers on Chilean Wine and French Wine, so I really went for it and got a couple of each.

My concern is that if it’s in the house I will drink it and to be honest I don’t really care what the drink is. For Christmas we were given a bottle of Sambuca and a bottle of Baileys. Over the last few weeks, these 2 bottles have been drunk. I think the problem there is that we don’t use shot glasses as we should, but fill up a wine glass!

I think the only solution is that I am going to have to stop drinking any alcohol for a while. It’s going to be tough, but I think it is necessary.

I’m sure the other half will have a moan about this, but I’m sure he will understand why I am doing this.
Having said all that though, I think the ban can come into force at the weekend, so that gives me a few extra nights to finish off any alcohol still at home.

I’m certain I still have a nice litre bottle of gin in the kitchen cupboard, so perhaps I might just have to get a bottle of tonic to go with this!!


Feb 26 2010

New Tesco Store Is Granted 24 Hour Alcohol Licence

Tag: wine and spiritsFoodAndDrink @ 2:04 am

We have a new Tesco Super Store opening up in our Town today. According to local news stories, this is going to be a new all singing all dancing store selling just about everything you could ever want. It’s not really very fair for all the little independent traders who have been trading in the area for many years!!

Mind you, it has to be good for people who were looking for employment. With this new store opening an additional 250 jobs have been created, so that means at least there will be less people signing on at the local Job Center.

However, there is an awful lot of controversy because Tesco’s have been granted a 24 hour alcohol licence. The new shop is in an area of our town where crime is already a major problem. I’m not convinced it is such a great idea granting them a 24 hour licence. The scum that already roam the streets at night are just going to be even worse if they can get their hands on alcohol all night.
Don’t get me wrong though I am a lover of alcohol, but is it really necessary to be able to purchase it at 3.00 o’clock in the morning?

I have never felt the desire to still be drinking at this time of the morning and I would think if you are then you have a pretty bad alcohol problem.

The store was due to open at 8 this morning and I would think they have invited some local Dignitary to cut the ribbon and there will be a bit of a do afterwards.
I wonder if Tesco have provided the refreshments??

Personally I like a glass of red, but I bet they will have a choice. There will probably be German Wine, Italian Wine and maybe even some Portuguese Wine. I’m sure they wouldn’t have gone all out and provided any Champagne!!
Tesco are reportedly giving a local charity 1,000 Pounds towards building a children’s hospice. This sounds like a lot, but bearing in mind that their annual pre-tax profits for 2009 were just over 3 billion, it is a bit of an insult and I’m sure they could have given more!!!


Feb 25 2010

Freedom Wine Production In Australia And Surrounding Countries

Tag: wine and spiritsFoodAndDrink @ 4:19 pm

Australia has produced some very popular wines over the years and has a climate conducive to producing bottles considered some of the best in the world. Other surrounding countries such as New Zealand and Fiji are now getting in on the act however and are growing their stakes in the market by experimenting with innovative wine production.

In the news recently was the high-profile contentious issue of wine producers being able to mix together red and white wine, and call the end product rosé. Classically rosé has been made by removing the white juice mixture from the red grape skins at just the right time so that it doesn’t absorb so much of the colour. However, just mixing small quantities of red wine into white is the method that has seen a massive rise in popularity recently…a result of the recession forcing cheaper production methods to be adopted.

Countries such as France, widely considered the finest wine producing country in the world, were not best pleased with this “mutilation” of rosé wine and did not wine glasses or decanters in pubs. However, those countries that have not set such strict rules for themselves, such as those in Australasia and Eastern Europe have profited from their liberalism. A spokesman from the New Zealand alcohol authority defended his country’s move by stating that people are free to consume whichever wine they wish. They never market their blended rosé as wine made in the traditional way and the difference in pricing makes it quite obvious this is a different product entirely. The spokesman argued that if people can make milk chocolate in a thousand different ways, why can the same not be done for rosé?

Many of the Australasian countries have even embraced the full blending together of other wines as well. In Fiji for example you can buy Sauvignon Blanc mixed with Chardonnay and Merlot blended with Cabernet Sauvignon. Mirroring the laid back approach of New Zealand, the Fijian wine makers suggest that wine is able to be blended just as easily and with the same success rate as whisky. They state that companies all over the world, and in particular Scotland, produce some very fine blended whiskies that not only often taste superior to single malts, but that are also able to sell at more modest prices. Next they will be telling us which tableware we must use when consuming the wine, stated one official.

It is clear that the Fiji natives like this blended wine, with over 100,000 bottles of the stuff consumed last year. When compared to the wine consumption of some of the top bottles in the world, this figure is relatively low, but considering that the population of Fiji is not much more than 750,000, you can see just how successful this wine really is. There are plans to start exporting this fully blended wine very soon and given the fact they are able to undercut many ‘single malt’ wine produces, they are almost certain to do well.


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