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[update 29/3/10: it seems that the video was replaced and YouTube have improved their transcription engine (slightly). The text below no longer matches the one on the video, but what is there is still amusing, if not quite as random]

I hope you are not deaf.

Much as I like what YouTube have done to create automatic captions, the results are VERY amusing, but not very elucidating.

Check out this video (turn on captions if you can) then read along to the caption script:

 

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What is it with high altitude wine tastings?

Yesterday I wrote about my tasting at www.altitude360.com – but in fact it was my second in a series of “top of building” wine tastings having made it to the 6th floor of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) - www.architecture.com – for the latest The Wine Society tasting (www.thewinesociety.com)

This was a small tasting of only 50 wines that are new to their wine list, so I thought I’d share a few favourites with you:

WHITES:
Las Medallas Manzanilla (Sherry) £6.95 - delicious, concentrated, lightly salty but delicately aromatic in that very unsual Fino/Manzanilla way. It took me a LONG time to ‘get’ this kind of wine, despite liking aged sherries, so stick with it!

Gewurtztraminer, Grand Cru Brand, Cave de Turckheim 2007 (Alsace) £16.00 - gorgeous floral, herbal, honey (and possibly a touch of mandarin) complexity, without ever coming across as excessive. Pricey, but worth an occasional detour.

Dog Point Chardonnay 2007 (New Zealand) £18.00 – I found the smell was like putting your nose in a glass of undiluted Rose’s Lime Cordial. It promises fresh, crisp lime fruit ... But the taste is much more than this – toasty, rich and slightly nutty, but also with that citrus streak and great minerality (which means it was fresh and crisp, but not mouth-puckering, more refreshing)

REDS:
Bricco Rosso Suagna 2004
(Italy) £6.50 – loads of yummy, fleshy, dark fruit on this one, with just a hint of overripeness which normally puts me off, but this was still OK. Tons of acidity in the mouth to freshen it up (this is Italy after all) so for VFM (value for money) it scores very highly

Barbera d’Alba Poderi Colla 2007 (Italy) £8.50 – Oooh, so nice! Yummy dark fruit (all sorts of plums, strawberries, blackberries and more) with a warming, but soft tannin and loads of other flavours dancing about the palate. This is a delicious wine, complex but easily drinkable now. Sold!

Cotes de Rhone Mon Coeur Selection, Jean-Louis Chave 2007 (France, Rhone) £12.50 – Heading up there in price again, but OH! A lovely wine! An amazing nose – spicy, earthy and blackberry fruit (and just a hint of boot polish?). The fruit is strong on the taste, but also accompanied with lovely floral notes too. My fave!

Are you a member of The Wine Society? I am, and if you want a great resource for buying wines online or on mail-order, I do recommend it!

Wines with Altitude

Today I made it up to the 29th floor of Millbank Tower (possibly more famous for its political connections than wine ones) to attend Enotria’s annual tasting (www.enotria.co.uk)

I only had a short time to spend there, which was probably just as well. Whilst I was there, which was around lunchtime, the crowd of tasters and exhibitors seemed to be there in full force. Tables of wines were almost all packed with tasters, the coffee station was one of the busiest spots, and hundreds of staff and guests mingled, met, chatted, compared notes and generally rubbed elbows (and the rest!) as they tried to navigate the room otherwise known as Altitude360 (www.altitude360.com).

As an aside, despite its size, and the huge number of venues overall, London seems underserved by good places to hold wine tastings. We need something wide, not cavernous, bright and simple (oh, and no carpets to get damaged by errant spits) – shouldn’t be too hard, should it? However, the range of venues for a tasting on the scale of today’s event are not as many as you might imagine. If you know anything new and interesting, do let me know.

(oh, and if you can avoid venues requiring lifts, even better)

As for the wines, well, Enotria excels at Italian wines and I particularly enjoyed a great many unusual white varieties, such as the Falanghina & Greco di Tufo of Feudi di San Gregorio ( www.feudi.it), a Pigato from Laura Aschero (floral and nutty), a great value Falanghina from Cantina dei Cipressi. Heading over to France, I also picked out a white Corbieres from Cave de Castelmaure. In fact the latter’s range, including the good value Le Castelmaure and La Pompadour Corbieres were very enjoyable wines.

A very interesting range, and if the activity in the room is anything to judge by, the wine business seems to be recovering from a desperate past year. I hope this continues and encourages more buyers to be adventurous with their wine lists, giving consumers an exciting choice of wines to spend their precious entertainment budget on.