PP has suffered a set-back. In addition to not being able to access his Panamanian bank accounts the publisher’s advance cheque for his upcoming book “Fall from Grace” bounced due to bankruptcy of the publisher. So here he is with a looming wine bill for the engagement party short on cash. But PP always surprisesContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner’s Engagement Party: Wine Planning: Another Set-Back; The Canapés”
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RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner’s Engagement Party: Wine Planning: A Little Set-Back; The Opening Toast and THE BIG BLUFF?
As we recounted in an earlier story PP and Celine Serpent are engaged and I have a contract to select the wines for their engagement party. PP, seeing that Celine has paid my consulting fees, assumed she is paying for the wine but surprised him by saying the groom and groom to be should pick upContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner’s Engagement Party: Wine Planning: A Little Set-Back; The Opening Toast and THE BIG BLUFF?”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Low Life Wine Fraud and Wild Tuscan Boar Stew
PP phoned me up the other day in an excited mood. Looks like he has a new girlfriend Celine Serpent a wealthy widower living in Rosedale. You might want to say she invested a paltry $200,000 with Bernie Madoff and being on the upper end of the Ponzi scheme she doubled her money. He saidContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Low Life Wine Fraud and Wild Tuscan Boar Stew”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Does Not Drink Cat’s Pee
Cat’s Pee is supposedly a common reference to Sauvignon Blanc. PP does not like this reference as he is biased against Sauvignon Blanc as the subject of some commoner stampede. Yes I’ll agree it is overmarketed to the extent it will lead to its downfall in New Zealand. There are some excellent producers of itContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Does Not Drink Cat’s Pee”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Is Such A Prig Sometimes: Puglian Primitivo
At one point PP tells me he is excited about us trying the cheapest wines for what gems he might discover. Yet when I tell him I am trying a Primitivo from Puglia he says he is not interested in junk from Southern Italy. I tell him to ease up with his snobbery and heContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Is Such A Prig Sometimes: Puglian Primitivo”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner’s Blowout Christmas Parties of Yesteryear
PP told me recently his small 25 lawyer Toronto Bay Street law firm used to hold a blowout Christmas Party primarily designed for support staff and articling students who were given the 24th off to put them in a celebratory mood for the party that night. PP says we held it over the years atContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner’s Blowout Christmas Parties of Yesteryear”
RKS Wine: The Lure That Attracts the Fish? Rousanne and Viognier?
As a wine writer swimming in a school of wine reviewers the reality is that every wine bottled can’t be reviewed. But this fish likes the Viognier grape on its lonesome and in a blend. It tends to give white wine a noticeable presence with apricots, tangerines and honey. Of course, if you do notContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Lure That Attracts the Fish? Rousanne and Viognier?”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner, Tuscan Wine and Bernie Madoff Golf Balls
When PP had dough he wasn’t shy on parting with it to purchase to classified Chiantis and the Super Tuscans. Despite their fantastic quality and high prices the Super Tuscan’s did not adhere to Italian appellation laws so they were categorized as ordinary table wine. While appellation rules protect quality they can stunt innovation. ThisContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner, Tuscan Wine and Bernie Madoff Golf Balls”
RKS Wine: Did I Hear The Penniless Pensioner Snicker? A White from Languedoc
I could swear I heard PP snicker when I suggested we try a white wine from Languedoc in Southern France. I started getting a lecture about how this area was a huge wine lake providing wine for the working class of Paris and most likely even cheapened by the addition of Algerian wine but PPContinue reading “RKS Wine: Did I Hear The Penniless Pensioner Snicker? A White from Languedoc”
Lambrusco’s Comeback: Labrusca Lini 910 Disappoints
Maligned for many years as cheap Italian fizz Lambrusco is making a comeback in the past few years. Is it because we are seeing more of it in Canada or has quality dramatically improved? That is a difficult question as we see so little Lambrusco who knows the reality. But the rare bottle that driftsContinue reading “Lambrusco’s Comeback: Labrusca Lini 910 Disappoints”
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