Best get it drunk up soon. Advice to live by, I reckon 😆
In seriousness, I’ve got Loire rosés that are 10 years old and still fine.
Bramhall was the same: 30 mins either way gets you into either the bright lights of central Manchester or out into the wilds of the Peak District.
Yes, I think I’ve been spoiled by France. It’s only 2 hours from Cambridge and there’s very little of it that isn’t worth exploring.
Plus - generally - the further you drive (from Calais) the better it gets. So it’s always worth the trip.
Same here - I feel my main job as a parent is to help my kids do better than me and not have to make all the same mistakes.
They get to make mistakes of their own, of course.
Thanks - need to get to know Spain and its geography a lot better.
Main challenges seem to be:
- it’s a long-ish drive to get there
- it’s big, even once you’ve arrived
- the gaps between the interesting bits are quite large
Maybe a retirement project to travel around it more?
The shard looking like a demonic creature in the mist.
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Great choice - watched this with both kids as part of their general education.
What are Resource Black Holes?
What's the best way to avoid having to divest an underperforming acquisition?
Why is bike-shedding in the Board Meeting a problem?
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There must be something in the water in that part of Manchester - Nayan Gowda is from just around the corner.
I'm from Bramhall; you can see Lyme Park from the back of the house.
Tarrangona is Penedès and Xarel-lo, right? Or is that a massive oversimplification?
I fail to see what the fuss is all about with Pinot, but Nebbiolo is the Pinot I can get into.
Don't see much of it over here; need to drive over to Italy and stock up.
Been very impressed with everything I've had from Hill-Smith.
This line-up of dinner party wines was really good:
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Grew up at the edge of the Peak District and used to cycle out there all the time.
It's one of things I most miss about living in East Anglia.
Got a related story.
Commuter train one morning, young woman dashes to get in as doors are shutting, she slips and falls on the platform, loses one shoe onto the tracks but gets up and into the train.
Only then does she realise she is on a train to London with one shoe and the other in Cambridge.
Looks fab - Champagne and sushi is a great match.
Enjoy Portugal - we found great wines for just a few Euros there; even cheaper than France or Spain.
Plus food, architecture, pasteis de nata, trams, coffee, markets.
Back here, been very impressed with everything I've had from Esporao: medium.com/@tomsk71/the...
Sibenik, Croatia
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Friend who rows told me that height and lung capacity are all they really look for. They can train in the rest.
Wine-tasting, extreme rowing and some middle-aged conversations.
It's another Saturday afternoon social with friends:
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Red flag right there.
Could we use the correct Ukrainian name for the city and not the language of a genocidal aggressor, please?
Thanking you.
Österreichische Postsparkasse vibes.
Austrian Postal Savings Bank, Vienna: early 1900s, Otto Wagner.
Industry body: I argued that continuous financial decline of our member base was an existential threat for us, so we needed to put commerciality front-and-centre of our offering.
Got told: but Pricing's boring.
Ended up leaving not long afterwards.
Challenge was not rewarded. Conventionality was.
Had one of these at an Afghan place in Slough, west London.
Had to take a doggy bag and eat the rest for lunch the next day.
Here's to all the women in wine. Three wines by female winemakers:
- Joseph Mellot Sancerre Graveliere
- Kleine Zalze Family Reserve Sauvignon Blanc
- Robert Oatley Semaphore Shiraz
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Some places guide you forward.
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Came here to say Paris, Texas too.
(There's a lesser-known Cambridge in Gloucestershire as well).
Do this all the time - I treat shopping lists as more of an aspiration and see what looks interesting when I get there.
I rather like the serendipity of finding one thing and then building a whole evening meal around it.
PSA - Radiohead streaming live performances and random songs on their YT channel rn.
Hope you didn't have too much else planned for today:
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Nice - Vermentino aka Rolle is a lovely grape for early drinking:
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Doves
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