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I find my wine tastes follow the season and I am most definitely in agreement with JL when it comes to rose wine. I was almost a bit gutted when I started discovering the options were getting better only for the darn stuff to become really trendy about a year later! I also don't get on that well with white wine all the time, I find it gives me a headache. I tell you what is amazing on a hot summer day, a glass of really cold lovely sherry, no really.


I'm sure I heard that some of the big wine houses use rose as a way of working out if their new grape blends work well, they see if it comes out OK in a rose before making a vat of the others. I'm probably wrong but it was something like that.


I really like the idea of the virtual tasting in a way it would be more fun though I cannot wait to see the notes we all make about the wines. I will not be able to contain my laughter if people start commenting on how the wine whiffs of petrol and the tops of babies heads and has great legs.

The legs bit is the one thing I do sort of know about: if you swirl the wine around in the glass for a bit and then stop and look at the glass above the wine you should see lines appear after a few seconds. As far as I remember, the more distinct they are and the longer they take to appear then the more booze there is in the wine.

Hi there everyone,


I have just been in to Threshers on Park Hall Road, and spoke to "Will". He has suggested a lovely bottle of Saint-Veran, white Burgundy - he said it was a complete steal - at ?9! He gave me a special discount because I told him what we were intending to do, so if you go to the West Dulwich Branch you may get the same - he only charged me ?6! He has given me tasting notes and to put on line on Sunday morning, and he will come online himself some time late on Sunday to give us further guidance!


He said that if we enjoy the wine, and the tasting is a success, he would do this for us regularly! He is a very nice man.


DM


How is that???

Well done DM, you're feminine charm has already worked wonders and what an excellent choice to start with. I can thoroughly recommend the Saint-Veran myself having drunk oodles of it a few summers back. This is a very good start indeed. I shall be up that way sometime tomorrow and shall pop in and grab a bottle or two and I'll try and get in touch with Paul in Oddbins around the same time and perhaps have an arm wrestle with him over which red to choose for us.

That's amazing DM bravo! I shall be in the area tomorrow so will pop in and hopefully Will to get a bit of money off.


I don't think I've ever tried a burgundy before.


Do we want to stick to just the white this time and then go for a red next time? I don't think our taste buds will be on top form if we have both rouge et blanc in one session.

Well I got the wine but felt mildly embarrassed at owning up to why so couldn't ask for discount as well and none was offered, obviously DM's charms work better than mine!

I did mention letting the LL branch know what's happening and Will said he would phone them tomorrow, so if anyone else is joining in try there too.

Are we going to synchronise or just get on with it?

7.15 sounds good to me, we shall settle ourselves in the back garden if the weather is good. We don't have to actually be online when drinking do we? Urm, electronics and vino dont mix and I can't be trusted...


I'm off to get my bottle of plonk in about an hour and have no shame in asking for a discount B)

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