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Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 January 2014

Goodbye dry January welcome wet January!

Hubby and I have been testing dry January for 10 days. We read about big improvement in sleep quality, the way skin looks, and all sorts of other benefits. For 10 days we saw hardly any of that. Perhaps because we don't drink every day and have a relatively healthy life style therefore on Saturday we decided that it was time to say goodbye to dry January and welcome wet January!

For the celebration we choose Sicilian whites, wonderful Malvasia which is one of my favourites among whites and typical Sicilian catarratto grape. Both great Malvasia absolutely brilliant - full of flavour, round and rich. Catarratto lighter, more mineral very good for a warm day like today in London was around +3C in the night;)
Both from a really great wine shop in South Kensington Handford Wines

We did a wonderful walk today and it was all in all such a beatiful and full of small adventures day. We discovered this amazing little museum house which belonged to a Victorian artist Frederic Leighton. Throughly worth recommending - Leighton House

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

New Year's Eve wine and Dry January

I am not a big fan of bubbles so this year hubby and I decided to buy a good (or two) bottle of white to welcome 2014. As it happened that we were in Wimbledon we went to the local wine merchant and here is what we got.

Bandol - this was a curious one, strangely oily to start and very soft to finish. It was a good one but at a price of £32 I may not be buying it again and frankly I know many better wines for less than that. I love Bandol rose and for now it will remain my favourite Bandol. Eventhough I will try to find Bandol white again just to see if it might be a better one just to make the final judgement on it.

The other Sicilian Gruali was a beautiful one, straw color, rich - I absolutely loved this one and will happily buy it again, even for £20. However this will need to wait for a while, at least until February as hubby and I signed up to Dry January so no alcohol for us for 31 days! Bring it on!

Happy New Year!