Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 11:25
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - JOGON

Aldi's hoppy IPA is ideal to slake your thirst on a warm eve, but tonight my price-versus-quality aim settles upon the Hyundai i10 of the white wine world:- Asda Chenin Blanc, £3.58 (75cl) South African Chenin Blanc. Seems rude not to quaff it at that price. Cheers. Any other top tip tipples welcomed.

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 11:32
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare

I am rather a fan of Wolf Blass Yellow Label Chardonnay, on permanent offer in Asda for a fiver. I used to be a red wine/ real ale fan but can't drink those anymore, so I've had to get on the white wine instead (or...lager...at parties).

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 12:21
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - unthrottled

Why can't you drink red wine and real ale any more? You can't go to rugger b***** chindigs and ask for a glass of poxy chardonnay! Mr Bobbin will be so embarrassed.

BTW-does he like cars? And is he on HJ?? I've been trying to figure out who it might be!

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 12:30
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare

Why can't you drink red wine and real ale any more?

>>Have a chronic illness which means I can't have 'dirty' drinks like red wine anymore - boo :-(

You can't go to rugger b***** chindigs and ask for a glass of poxy chardonnay! Mr Bobbin will be so embarrassed.

>>Mr Bobbin wisely stayed away from all ladies' rugby nights. Anyway I used to be able to drink him under the table. He was a cheap date.

BTW-does he like cars? And is he on HJ?? I've been trying to figure out who it might be!

>>He is not on here. He loves his Celica but he knows only that petrol goes in and 'go' comes out. I joined this forum because he got fed up of me talking about cars and driving all the time! I have made him sound daft now but he is a physicist too. He likes planes.

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 12:51
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - unthrottled

But the dirty ones are the ones that taste so good-That's catastrophic.

He likes planes.

That doesn't make him sound any less daft! [image of man with outstretched arms running round garden] . You could go to air shows. I'm the opposite-I don't really like cars, only engines!

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 23:07
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare
You could go to air shows.

We do go to air shows.

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Sat 2 Jul 2011 11:51
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - unthrottled

We do go to air shows.

..but wish we didn't?

An afternoon squinting into the sky and nursing a sore neck! Still, occasionally, they'll fire up a WWII Merlin V12 or A Pratt & Witney radial-and all is forgiven.

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 12:50
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - JOGON

I am rather a fan of Wolf Blass Yellow Label Chardonnay, on permanent offer in Asda for a fiver. I used to be a red wine/ real ale fan but can't drink those anymore, so I've had to get on the white wine instead (or...lager...at parties). > Thanks for the tip, I'll 'Bobbin' and try a bottle.

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 15:12
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare

Oooh just remembered a very nice one (I take a photo on my phone if there's a bottle I've liked) - Dolphin Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. It went well with a curry if I recall. Also Asda.

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 22:28
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - unthrottled

Well, if you must drink white, New Zealand Sauvignin blanc is a good start. The Villa Maria isn't too shabby either.

This Week was not on form in case anyone wondered. Blue Nun will have to go back in the fridge.

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 23:18
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare

Dolphin Bay is a NZ sauvignon blanc. You can't stack booze for almost 5 years in Asda and not learn a thing or two ;-)

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 23:22
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - unthrottled

5 years? Thjat's A-level and undergrad beer money then! Poor you. I'm going to have a nice pint of Deuchars. I'll be thinking of you (not in a seedy way!).

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Fri 1 Jul 2011 23:40
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare

Deuchars IPA. I knew it well. :-((

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Sat 2 Jul 2011 11:36
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Avant

" I have made him sound daft now but he is a physicist too."

Comforting, I suppose, to know that physicists get married to each other: otherwise the race of physicists would become extinct.

NZ Sauvignon is normally good but for a refreshing, not too expensive, white on a hot summer's day I don't think you can beat a good French Vouvray.

Edited by Avant on 02/07/2011 at 11:38

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Sat 2 Jul 2011 11:47
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - unthrottled

I would have thought that Avant would be extolling the merits of a glass of Czechosolvakian 2006 Skoda Octavia red...

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Sat 2 Jul 2011 15:16
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Avant

Mine's an '11, and it's white. :)

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Sun 3 Jul 2011 11:28
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - Bobbin Threadbare

Comforting, I suppose, to know that physicists get married to each other: otherwise the race of physicists would become extinct.

Thanks Avant! :-P

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Fri 8 Jul 2011 20:57
Chilled Crisp White 18.00hrs Friday 1.7.11 - Someone said Blue Nun - JOGON

Pere Anselme La Reserve d l'Aube Syrah-Merlot 2010. To quote that Oz Clark= 'You wouldn't normally blend the rich scented Syrah with the softer, milder Merlot—but this works. The wine is very warm and round, positively lush in its spiced plum sauce and stewed cherry way, but there’s a bit of tannin there too and it all makes for a good, self–indulgent red.’ About £6 a shot, but 6 free with my Spectator sub, perfect anitdote to my women reading Heat.

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