Category: Wine

Grand Cru Classe

We were recently gifted with this marvellous wine – it was a tremendous pleasure to drink! What remarkable generosity on the part of the man who gave us this bottle…! Text from vintagewinegifts.co.uk Scoring 92/100 Parker points and from the very good 1996 vintage, this…

Mas du Soleilla

This is where our favourite wine comes from: Mas du Soleilla. Mas du Soleilla is a 24 hectare estate situated to the east of Narbonne in the small wine producing region of La Clape. Quality conscious viticulture on the part of the owners, close proximity…

Sardinian wine

We are coming to sardinia for 3 years and until recently we have not found a single wine we like. We tried so many from cheap ones to 25 euro ones. To me they are all to rough and with to much tanin. So this…

Wine by the fire

There is nothing better than dinner in the garden. Our garden is an allotment located 10 minutes from our home. Light a fire, grill some fish and open a nice bottle of wine. What more does one need? You can also see todays harvest on…

Mas du Soleilla Reserve 2002

The wine for the dinner was the lovely ” Les Barthelles” from Mas du Soleilla. But because of the special occasion we treated ourselves with one bottle of the Reserve 2002. A absolutely fantastic wine !

Côtes du Jura

Don’t usually drink white wine – but this bottle of Côtes du Jura Franz gave us is lovely. Its very heavy white – almost like port or sometin’. Nice.