Dining & Wine
Easy drinkers from Oz
My first taste of cheap Australian wine was in my student days. Out of curiosity, I bought a flagon of Australian Burgundy (as it said on the label). It was a dark, threatening colour and barely drinkable. It might have been quite useful for cleaning the floor of an abattoir, but not much else.
Are you an ABC Type?Colin Kirkpatrick 06.01.2010 | |
 Throughout January, diners at Flames Restaurant, Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya can savor the taste of Australian Wagyu steaks. |  Since you asked, it means “Anything But Chardonnay.” You’ll know what I mean if you’ve become bored comatose with those dull bottom-end Chardonnays and now avoid them like the plague. But you know it shouldn’t really be like this. Chardonnay is one of the world’s great white grapes. It’s the most important component in Champagne and the major white grape of Burgundy where it produces wines of amazing depth and complexity. It’s also the soul of the superb bone-dry wines of Chablis. |
Do you smell?Colin Kirkpatrick 21.12.2009 | Mantra Bar And RestaurantMick and Di 21.12.2009 |
 At a recent wine tasting, I was horrified to see that some people looked as though they were drinking lemonade. Many were not bothering to smell the wines, let alone look at them. Smelling a wine is a huge part of the pleasure of wine-drinking. Someone once wrote that “not bothering to smell a wine is like not bothering to smell a rose”. Actually, now I come to think about it, I wrote it myself. But it’s worth saying again. |  Frescobaldi Wine Dinner |
Getting more ChileColin Kirkpatrick 06.12.2009 | |
 The Oasis restaurant at the Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort would like to invite you and your family to try the ‘Saturday Night Seafood Buffet’ available throughout December. |  Chile has been producing wine since the sixteenth century. When Mozart was a boy in Austria, they’d already been making wine in Chile for two hundred years. This thin strip of land - 2,700 miles long - is considered by many to provide ideal conditions for growing grapes. Chile’s vineyards lie along an 800 mile stretch of land which, in the Northern Hemisphere, would be equivalent to the area between southern Spain and North Africa. |
THE PALACEMick and Di 06.12.2009 | Thai Treats (3)Colin Kirkpatrick 21.11.2009 |
 Fascinating Lebanese Cuisine | When you come to ponder the issue, it’s amazing that there’s any Thai wine industry at all. Most wine produced in the world comes from countries that lie between the 30th and 50th parallels in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. |
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