Posts Tagged ‘Wine Recommendations’

Sommelier Recommendations - July 2009

Summer time is with us again, this is a great time to look at our offering of Rosé wines
 
VALLE REALE 2006 CERASUOLO, MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO
The Pizzolo family’s winery is perched inside a wild, glacier-carved national park in Abruzzi, on the “calf” of the Italian boot, where the grapes ripen late, just as the first snows dust [...]

Sommelier Recommendations - June

This month my recommendations are well suited to the warm, sunny weather that we have been experiencing on the South Coast. 
 Firstly we look at a dessert wine - Icewine.
Icewine
Icewine is a rare dessert wine produced from the juice of naturally frozen grapes that have been picked in the middle of a cold Canadian winter.   At [...]

FJB Hotels launch new wine lists

Recently I have been extremely busy preparing our new wine lists for the group;  we have greatly extended our list and have some really great offerings.  
 
Apart from including quite a few top end wines for that special celebration for example;

Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, Pierre Morey, 2001
Penfolds, ‘Yattarna’, Chardonnay1999
Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, 5 growth, 1993
Vosne-Romanée, Mugneret-Gibourg, 2000

To some more unusual [...]

Sommelier Suggestions - May

Please find below the latest of my recommendations. This month I am pleased to recommend Jean-Claude & Didier Aubert’s Vouvray and Jean-Pierre Boisson’s Chateauneuf du Pape…

Sommelier Suggestions

Welcome to the first of my regular recommendations.  Each Month I plan to feature two wines that are showing particularly well, but are not well known, that go with the seasonal dishes our chefs are preparing.
Polish Hill River Riesling, O’Leary Walker, Australia, 2007 (£29.50)
Intense grapefruit, slate and citrus peel. The perfume is alluring with powerful slate and [...]

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