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SlightlyPotty

Spring is springing.....

Mark: Any good, new wine recommendations, Harry?
- June 10, 2011
SlightlyPotty → Wine Industry Colloquy (WIC): I really have no current role in the industry but of the 42 years I have been drinking wine, I spent 34 buying and selling wine in the hotel and restaurant business all over the world. I have also been involved in th training and education of others in th... more
- June 19, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Virtual Wine Tasting Club: I have three bottles of 2000 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon which cost, I think, about Â£20 ($40) which I think can still be found in wine shops and two bottles of 2000 Hangtime Pinot Noir (no note of cost or availability). Quite happy to open those for a v... more
- June 19, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Chardonnay Wine: The following are all cheap Chardonnays with a bit of character:

2002 Deakin Estate - Australia $7.99
It has a slightly tangy, fruity flavor, hints of peach and melon, but not much of either and not a long finish either. Certainly harmless enoug... more
- June 15, 2008
SlightlyPotty → UK Wine Group: I should have mentioned that the Ferngrove Orchid Range from Western Australia and Skallagaloo from South Australia are two particularly good Malbecs that spring to mind. Both about Â£9 or Â£10 a bottle available from www.englishwine.co.uk
- June 5, 2008
SlightlyPotty → UK Wine Group: There are a few gorgeous Australian Malbec wines, if you can find them - I've not seen any in supermarkets but Oddbins occasionally has a few and some of the Australian specialists. Malbec is undergoing a mini revival in Australia. Up until the 1980s... more
- June 5, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Test Event: Whatever it is, I'll come!
- June 10, 2008
SlightlyPotty Thank you. I will soon be sober again/
- December 5, 2009
Zinfangirl: Thanks for the add. I am a huge fan of California wines, and would really like to learn more about French wines, so maybe we can help each other out! If you ever need/have any recs, let me know. Cheers!
- September 18, 2009
SlightlyPotty → RCanaga: Robert,

Are you reincarnated on MLW in another form?
If so, welcome back!

Harry
- August 2, 2009
Lorinda: Hi Harry, I enjoyed your "corked" story...hope your drinking good wine and please share your finds :)
- June 29, 2009
Reefraff: Hi Harry,

Thank you for your friendship! You sure sounds like a very unique fellow. I'd love to help to introduce you to some very fine Israeli wines! Although I currently live in the best American wine country - the San Francisco Bay Area (Napa, S... more
- June 12, 2009
JoyceGlasgow: Hi Harry!

Thanks for the friend request! It sounds like you know a great deal about wines! I too have enjoyed South African wines. The Shiraz from there that I've tried has been great. It sounds like you would have a wonderful time taking a driving tour t... more
- May 17, 2009
SlightlyPotty → Mark: Isn't it always time for some wine?
- April 29, 2009
yourgourmetcandleshop: Hello Harry!

Thank you for your friendship! You sound like a very interesting fellow and I very much look forward to getting to know you better! I'd love to help you learn more about American wines! I live in one of the BEST American wine producing... more
- March 19, 2009
Mick1: Hello, Harry:
Sorry that I've neglected my wine jottings for a while... have you been to the Llanerch vineyard in the Vale of Glamorgan? Peter Andrews produces a very nice white wine, called Cariad. It's like the breton Muscadet wines, but it is pricey... more
- March 5, 2009
SlightlyPotty → pjvizcaino: The San Francisco Wine Trading Company has Domaine de Durban Beaumes de Venise, https://www.sfwtc.com
- June 15, 2009
SlightlyPotty → miaengel: Chicken soup will do the trick every time for a cold. Jewish penicillin - the best!
- November 30, 2008
SlightlyPotty → piedmontphil: Phil, I have no need of conversion. I love many italian wines, especially Barolo and Amarone and I have cases of cheap but delicious Valpolicella which I choose when I want a 'table' wine at home. I love the wines of Tuscany, especially Monte... more
- October 10, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Estelaski: Hi Estela, I'm no expert, just an aficianado!
- October 8, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Nolan: Good, isn't it? They have a Riesling too which is delicious.
- October 7, 2008
SlightlyPotty → CEPalmer: Charles, It's a terrific wine but if you have any more, don't drink it for another 10 years (I guess). I think it will get better and better. The 2003 and 2004 are wonderful too, though I think the 2003 is drinkable now.

Thanks for the tip.
- September 25, 2008
SlightlyPotty → annemarieparkin: ....but what a place to work! Hello back - catch you soon, I hope.
- September 12, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Patti808: Patti - thanks for the message. Currently picking grapes in France so looking forward to some good wine from them in a couple of years or so!
- September 2, 2008
SlightlyPotty → Brian77: Good luck! I hope they are doing something trivial to you.

Regards,

Harry
- August 30, 2008
SlightlyPotty → annemarieparkin: 616! I see I will have to get my skates on!
- August 25, 2008
SlightlyPotty → TK: TK,

Thank you for your kind message. It is encouraging to know that someone actually reads one's posts!

Looking forward to a great weekend and hope you are too.

Regards,

Harry
- August 8, 2008
SlightlyPotty → redwineloverfromleicesterUK: Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I'm lucky enough to have two cellars. I live half the year in France where I have a cellar full of European wines and the other six months I spend in the New Forest where I have the new-world wines impossible to find... more
- August 3, 2008
SlightlyPotty → annemarieparkin: Hi,

The Gewurztraminer I drank last night was from Casilliero del Diablo - it was gorgeous (from Mr Tesco last time I was in England).
- July 30, 2008
SlightlyPotty → montanamark: Alas, no kasbah here - or in Hampshire - though my local Tesco does frequently have a great selection.
- July 25, 2008

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Name Harry
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About Me I am a 60 year old Englishman, passionate about food and wine! I love most French wines, especially from Bordeaux, Bergerac and Alsace. I love to try to find fine old clarets and I am very fond of old Burgundies - but then, who isn't? And who can afford them? . I adore the Gewurztraminer grape and much enjoy trying Gewurz. wines from different parts of the world. I have an opportunity regularly to buy wines in Crozes Hermitage and Hermitage and rarely pass this up as I am very fond of Syrah (Shiraz) wines.

I enjoy Australian and South African wines and wish I knew more about them. I know so little about American wine and there are so many; however, we learn by drinking them so I am doing as much learning as is good for me. I hope this site will help to educate me about US wines.

One of the things I love most about wine is that the more you learn, the more you discover there is to find out. You can never know it all. Also, I have learned that you cannot know about good wine without tasting a lot of bad wine! You have to discover what makes good wines good

I am an enthusiastic collector of interesting wine with a cellar sufficient to keep me going for about 50 years at a bottle a night! If I die aged 109 having consumed the last bottle, I shall be a happy man.
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Occupation Retired Hotelier & Restaurateur.
Favorite Wines Margaux, St Emilion, Pomerol. Alsace Reisling and especially Gewurztraminer. Some amazing South African wines and a few special Crozes Hermitage and Cotes du Rhone. I love old Gran Reserva Rioja, Tarragona and Tempranillo and am lucky to have bought some from 1998, 2000 and 2001 for very little money as they are not fashionable in England and anathema in France. They are powerful wines and one can't drink them with everything (alas!). I am looking forward to finishing the 1998 as the 2000 is better and the 2001 even better than that.
Favorite Table Wine Banarollo - An insignificant House wine at my local Italian restaurant. £10 a bottle and quite stupendous!

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City Hampshire
State/Province Hampshire
Country UK
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The rise and rise of rosÃ©.....

Posted August 4, 2008

Just as each generation dresses differently from its parents, and listens to different music, so it likes to find its own drink. They've been making rosé in Provence for centuries, but that didn't stop the film set “discovering” it in the Fifties, when Brigitte Bardot an...
Escape from big-money Bordeaux

Posted July 25, 2008

Although many of the widespread vineyards of South-West France are only an hours drive or so from Bordeaux, they are far removed from the big money associated with claret wines. In a world where many wines are made increasingly bland, with an emphasis on alcohol content, and a reliance upon a...
How to sell horribly expensive wine...

Posted June 23, 2008

When I was young, green and greedy in the restaurant business I stuck rigidly to the 70% gross profit idea, with the result that when I bought fine (and expensive) wines I priced them even beyond the sensibilities of my wealthiest customers. With experience, I realised that if I had paid $400 for a ...
It's really much nicer than beer....

Posted June 16, 2008

Have some Madeira, m’dear! Madeira is one of the world’s greatest and most long-lived fortified wines. It’s as well known to connoisseurs and collectors as it is misunderstood and underappreciated by most everyday wine drinkers. Like the island landscape itself, Madeira...
When it all goes wrong..

Posted June 15, 2008

During the 42 years I have been drinking wine, in addition to the good stuff I have drunk an awful lot of poor wine, cheap wine, nasty wine and revolting wine. But they have all been that way because that’s how they were made. They were ma...

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Taste! Gourmet Trade Show & Expo ~ May 2010

May 14, 2010 7:00:00 AM PDT

8 guests

Taste! Gourmet Show is Myrtle Beach's most anticipated Wine & Food Show with it's inaugural debut May 14-16, 2010 with our kick-off Charity event "Taste! for a Cure Gala" benefiting Pancreatic Cancer May 13, 2010. This event will ...
Taste For Life

March 29, 2009 9:00:00 AM PDT

5 guests

You're Invited...<br /><br />Taste For Life was born out of the feelings of helplessness and frustration experienced when cancer strikes loved ones. What can we do to fight back at something so pervasive and insidious? Our answer is to f...
Bubbles

March 1, 2009 11:00:00 AM PST

11 guests

St. Louis's first high end champagne tasting!<br /><br />Enjoy the educational tasting on five high end champagnes included in the lineup is Roederer Cristal, Perrier-Jouet Fleur De Champagne, J Wine “Late Disgorged” Brut, Clicquot La Gra...
Truett Hurst Winery Holiday Extravaganza

December 14, 2008 11:00:00 AM PST

151 guests

This is our very first Holiday party and we feel like celebrating. The new tasting room is shaping up, the patio is nearly complete, the salmon are running down at the creek, and our award winning wines are flat out gorgeous.
Lalinde, France

August 7, 2008 6:40:00 AM PDT

1 guest

If location was made the first word of the event, wouldn't that solve the problem?

Chardonnay Wine

63 members

Chardonnay is a grape that most everyone is familiar with and most wine drinkers love it. Originally from the Burgundy Region of France, chardonnay is now planted all across the World with great success.

Chardonnay wines are often inarticulate in youth but will blossom with time producing complex aromas of nuts and butter, toast and cream, wild mushrooms and meadow flowers. Their structure while dry can offer great richness with a wide variety of tastes including; lemon, melon peach and apple while still imparting the same creamy, nutty, buttery notes in the wines aroma.

Chardonnays from California often have a silkiness to them with great substance of flavor combined with high alcohol levels and a ripe, fruity character.

Australian chardonnays tend to range from the rich, pollen scented, fiery Hunter Valley chardonnays to the tapered elegance of the chardonnays from Mornington Peninsula and Adelaide Hills.
Red Wine Reviews

111 members

Please post your reviews for red wines here. I encourage everyone to participate in a lively discussion of their favorite red wines. Your review may be as formal or informal as you like. It would be great if you could also rate the wine on a 100 point scale.
Bordeaux, France

62 members

If there is one thing that the region of Bordeaux is proud of, it would probably be its line of wines. For the record, Bordeaux is the largest wine-producing region in the whole world, and it would only follow that they produce the best wines available in the market today. Bordeaux is famous for its red wines, though, of course, its white varieties are doing exceptionally good as well.

Every Bordeaux wine possesses distinct quality, flavor, and taste. There are no two wines that are seemingly alike. And to come up with variations, wine makers planted and blended different vines that would collaboratively make up a unique-tasting and fine wine.

Bordeaux wines were said to have existed in the post 48 AD and were originally created for soldiers. As the years advanced, Bordeaux wines found other markets and were thereby exported, though in the earlier years wine exportation was never seen as a grand idea. Bordeaux wine industry witnessed several threats before like infestations and critical economic difficulties, but emerged from them successfully.
Food & Wine Pairings

374 members

Quite often a good wine is a great wine when paired with the right food. Some food and wine pairings are quite obvious where as others are often illusive. Are you planning a dinner and want to see what wine would go best with it? Have you had a great meal that was perfectly paired with a wine? Please share it so we can all enjoy the wine pairing.
UK Wine Group

58 members

A group for those in the UK to discuss what's out there that you recommend, or even those wines you think are "bleugh".
What's your fav wine? Where do you normally buy your wine? What's a current bargain out there?

This group will be for all UK members to share their thoughts.

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