Posts Tagged ‘David Matthews’
1986 Château Lafite: My Choice as Wine of the Year – for 1988!
Posted by Frank Ward on March 15, 2020
Posted in Bordeaux, Bordeaux | Tagged: Asa Möllerfors, Bordeaux, Château Lafite, David Matthews, Médoc, Restauranger & Storkök | Leave a Comment »
PRE-PHYLLOXERA PUZZLE : An 1870 Overture
Posted by Frank Ward on June 10, 2013
June 2013. It was one of the biggest challenges I’ve ever faced at a blind tasting. True, I’d been given one piece of vital information just before sampling the wine, namely the vintage: 1870. A wine that was 143 years’ old. But that wasn’t much help. I’d never sampled a wine of quite that age before and didn’t really know what to look for. In addition, no clue had been given as to the region, or even country of origin (though one could be pretty sure it was French, our host being a great fan of that ucontry’s wines). fresh tasting notes on fabled wines, 3 great vintages of musigny vieilles vignes
Posted in Bordeaux, Mature wines, Tasting notes | Tagged: 1870, chanel, colin matthews, David Matthews, Ian Maxwell Campbell, john kolasa, madame de rohan, margaux, michael broadbent, nathaniel johnston, nicolas faith, prephylloxera, professor peynaud, rausan margaux, rauzan ségla, Shakespear, the great vintage wine book, thierry manoncourt, thomas jefferson | Leave a Comment »
Eating Out & Eating In
Posted by Frank Ward on September 18, 2012
Eating In & Eating Out. In which I describe some recent meals and vinous rarities and also have pleasure in publishing tasting notes on some 19th-century wines, written by David Matthews, the composer. One of Britain’s leading composers, David Matthews, has a house in Deal in southeast Kent (where I happen to live) and often comes down to the coast to work on his various compositions. In the course of his career he’s written seven symphonies, 12 string quartets, and all manner of other works, including a piece specially commissioned to mark the 90th birthday of the late Queen Mother.
Posted in Mature wines, Tasting notes | Tagged: 1975 Château Latour, 1991 Chambertin, 2004 Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile, Benjamin Britten, Château Faizeau vieilles vignes, David Matthews, Domaine Rousseau, pre-phylloxera wines, Renaud Rolland, Shakespear, sommelier, the Square | Leave a Comment »
Oeno-File, the Wine & Gastronomy Column 