Thursday, July 15th, 2010
And We Stormed The Bastille Alright… Ladies and Gentlemen of the vine: On this, the day after Bastille Day, the year of the wine bottle 2010, I bring to you descriptions of an evening reminiscent of that fine day in French histoire whence the Revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in 1789 (only three years ago!). The [...]
And we stormed the Bastille alright…
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
WAR: The Noble Rot vs. New Zealand Good Monday Morning To You, On Friday, June 4th, we (The Noble Rot) waged war on New Zealand. Armed with five courses of food, we aimed at pairing them with five wines that originate from Waiheke Island, a small piece of pristine land situated in the north-east of [...]
WAR: The Noble Rot vs. New Zealand
Tags: A Razor A Shiny Knife, Brian Quinn, Bronwyn Skuse, Christine Wells, Damian Gutierrez, Eugen Edele, food and wine pairing, Jonny Cigar, Man O' War, Mike Lee, new world wine old world style, New Zealand wines, Studiofeast, The Noble Rot
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