1989 was one of the best vintages for Crozes-Hermitage. The Mothership recently discovered that she had a case which had been forgotten about at some point in the last 21 years, so we decided to open some and see what it was like. It turns out that while I can claim to have tasted this vintage, I am none the wiser about what a good Crozes-Hermitage would be like, because it was very much past its prime. It smelt like seaweed, all iodine and decomposition, and not in an exciting whisky kind of way, but in a 'yuk, what IS that?' kind of way. It tasted like vinegar, which is exactly what it is. The only person to benefit from this is The Geek God, who being an '89 vintage himself can keep some unopened bottles for posterity, safe in the knowledge that none of us will want to drink it. I might plough through the rest of the case on the very off-chance that there is a bottle that is still ok, it's all going to get poured down the sink anyway.
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Thursday, 15 July 2010
An experiment
1989 was one of the best vintages for Crozes-Hermitage. The Mothership recently discovered that she had a case which had been forgotten about at some point in the last 21 years, so we decided to open some and see what it was like. It turns out that while I can claim to have tasted this vintage, I am none the wiser about what a good Crozes-Hermitage would be like, because it was very much past its prime. It smelt like seaweed, all iodine and decomposition, and not in an exciting whisky kind of way, but in a 'yuk, what IS that?' kind of way. It tasted like vinegar, which is exactly what it is. The only person to benefit from this is The Geek God, who being an '89 vintage himself can keep some unopened bottles for posterity, safe in the knowledge that none of us will want to drink it. I might plough through the rest of the case on the very off-chance that there is a bottle that is still ok, it's all going to get poured down the sink anyway.
Friday, 16 October 2009
Asda Milk Chocolate Flavoured Cake Covering
This is rank. Having purchased it with the intention of using it to coat biscuits I am making for a young friends birthday, I decided to sample a square, in the interests of, er, let's be honest here, it was calling to me.
I crumbled off a bit, put it in my mouth and eeeew icky ick! My mouth was filled with gritty greasy vaguely chocolate-flavoured (hey, it does what it says on the tin) slime, which after I had forced myself to swallow it, left a very synthetic aftertaste. In the interests of gaining a full description for you, dear reader, I forced myself to attempt a second square and I actually had to spit it in the bin, it was so bad. Yes me, spit chocolate, in the bin. I want to save anyone else from a similar fate, or from defacing their beautiful homemade cake with this travesty.
Looking at the information on the back I can see it contains sugar, fat, and a whole 6% of it is reduced fat (yeah good one when you've used that amount of fat already) cocoa powder.
I will keep you posted about the biscuits and which chocolate I end up using. I predict awesomeness.
I crumbled off a bit, put it in my mouth and eeeew icky ick! My mouth was filled with gritty greasy vaguely chocolate-flavoured (hey, it does what it says on the tin) slime, which after I had forced myself to swallow it, left a very synthetic aftertaste. In the interests of gaining a full description for you, dear reader, I forced myself to attempt a second square and I actually had to spit it in the bin, it was so bad. Yes me, spit chocolate, in the bin. I want to save anyone else from a similar fate, or from defacing their beautiful homemade cake with this travesty.
Looking at the information on the back I can see it contains sugar, fat, and a whole 6% of it is reduced fat (yeah good one when you've used that amount of fat already) cocoa powder.
I will keep you posted about the biscuits and which chocolate I end up using. I predict awesomeness.
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