Wine – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grindish twitterings for November

Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.

A steam locomotive at Zaječí, Southern Moravia. In the background, the Hodonín express.

August’s tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Bit late. Twitter trouble. Apologies for any distress caused. Money-back guarantee applies.

London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017

Barrel/street organ stuff.

Napoleon as Harlequin, tumbler, fraudster, monkey (?): Come, come, honest gents, have you ever seen a comedy like that!

Only sensible use for cheap red wine at 30C+

Mrs Casas says mix 1 cup lemon juice, 1 cup water, 2 cups red (Murcian renal, for example), 1 wedged peach, 4 lemon slices, 3 tbsp sugar, refrigerate for a couple of hours, drink. She also does a splendid iced coffee. The budget booze base is still without third party contributions, suggesting that none of…

Another home for cheap drunks

I sense a huge swell of coming contributions to the budget booze base, but meanwhile here’s BumWine.com. (H/t)

Request for wine-tasting rules

Locusts, wind, and plastic in the post-Parker world.

Preluding the great Spanish wine misselling scandal?

Pass the Don Simón.

Edward Linley Sambourne: Phylloxera, a true gourmet, finds out the best vineyards and attaches itself to the best wines.

But is that acorn-fed Iberian black pig or shoe leather you’re chomping?

Christmas time is ham time. It’s also a time when, knowing that some of you may have had one or two bottles too many, some tapas bars and restaurants will flog you cheap ham as something rather better – cat for hare, as the Spanish say. In the run up to Christmas last year the…

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