Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
I thought the stuff they were selling for £2 a bottle this past week was perfectly acceptable but then I regularly buy the 1.5 litre Lambrini at £2.50.
An astute observation. A palate for fine wine is both blessing and curse. It is hard to be happy with the cheap stuff after a proper wine education. I am not a big fan of Parker points, but they do shift the price.
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
As for fathers, if Cameron or any of the others had a father with controversial views, I wouldn't dream of raising it, and - a separate point - I doubt if it would win any votes if we did. There is a PB poster with a relative who had controversial views, and nobody ever thinks it's relevant or even interesting. Come to that my dad's cousin was Tory Chief Whip - how appalling is that? :-)
I doubt if even Mail readers will change their views of Ed particularly.
If Cameron's dad was a fascist - or any father of any Tory minister - of course Lefties would bloody raise it. We'd never hear the last of it.
Moreover, Miliband by all accounts sees his Dad as a hero, and his career is a self-confessed attempt to further his father's beliefs (albeit in moderated form). So it is entirely relevant.
As an ex-communist yourself you probably find nothing objectionable in this, but arguing it is off-limits is absurd.
Er... wasn't Alan Clark, a Nazi ?
No, but he was an eccentric oddball with varied views and not afraid to express them.
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
I have found with supermarkets (especially ones that are trying to break into established markets) that they can bulk buy great deals and this might be one.
that's what Robert Parker thinks about the various regions - doesn't seem he has tasted the most recent Chilean wines.
My gut feel (!) is that for Lidl to be selling a £6.99 wine you can expect that it should be a more expensive one and is likely to be very good.
Plus never forget that a lot of the wine cost (£2?) is tax and a fixed cost so the more money you spend over that amount, the disproportionately better wine you will get.
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
I thought the stuff they were selling for £2 a bottle this past week was perfectly acceptable but then I regularly buy the 1.5 litre Lambrini at £2.50.
I think that Alan Clarks rather flamboyant personality and outrageous behavior was in part due to his slow growing brain tumor. I am sure that his premorbid personality was eccentic, but his later behaviour smacks more of frontal lobe symptoms.
As for fathers, if Cameron or any of the others had a father with controversial views, I wouldn't dream of raising it, and - a separate point - I doubt if it would win any votes if we did. There is a PB poster with a relative who had controversial views, and nobody ever thinks it's relevant or even interesting. Come to that my dad's cousin was Tory Chief Whip - how appalling is that? :-)
I doubt if even Mail readers will change their views of Ed particularly.
If Cameron's dad was a fascist - or any father of any Tory minister - of course Lefties would bloody raise it. We'd never hear the last of it.
Moreover, Miliband by all accounts sees his Dad as a hero, and his career is a self-confessed attempt to further his father's beliefs (albeit in moderated form). So it is entirely relevant.
As an ex-communist yourself you probably find nothing objectionable in this, but arguing it is off-limits is absurd.
Er... wasn't Alan Clark, a Nazi ?
No, but he was an eccentric oddball with varied views and not afraid to express them.
An astute observation. A palate for fine wine is both blessing and curse. It is hard to be happy with the cheap stuff after a proper wine education. I am not a big fan of Parker points, but they do shift the price.
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
Am I the only person who finds cheap white wine perfectly drinkable but finds cheap red wine nasty stuff ?
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
I thought the stuff they were selling for £2 a bottle this past week was perfectly acceptable but then I regularly buy the 1.5 litre Lambrini at £2.50.
Generally I find the converse, with cheap red better value. Lidl did some very passable Rioja a year or two back. I am not a fan of cheap white though.
An astute observation. A palate for fine wine is both blessing and curse. It is hard to be happy with the cheap stuff after a proper wine education. I am not a big fan of Parker points, but they do shift the price.
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
Am I the only person who finds cheap white wine perfectly drinkable but finds cheap red wine nasty stuff ?
May has pledged to scrap labour's Human Rights act
Does that have any effect in real terms?
Yes, it means that peoiple seeking redress under the ECHR who can now have their case heard by British judges will now need to go to Strasbourg to be heard by European judges. The rights themselves are unchanged. Essentially it makes the process slower and more expensive (which might reduce the number of cases, as the Conservative might wish) and also more foreign (which is possibly not what the Conservatives might wish).
I didn't follow the latest thing but their plan is usually to replace it with a British "Bill of Rights", which would presumably go through a proper planning phase where people said "Remove X because it's out of line with ECHR" and "Put in Y because we need it for ECHR, otherwise this will end up getting litigated in Strasbourg" so I think what would they'd really end up doing is renaming the Human Rights Act.
Generally I find the converse, with cheap red better value. Lidl did some very passable Rioja a year or two back. I am not a fan of cheap white though.
An astute observation. A palate for fine wine is both blessing and curse. It is hard to be happy with the cheap stuff after a proper wine education. I am not a big fan of Parker points, but they do shift the price.
Can't really ask that question - a 90 score might be a '62 Romanee Conti or a 2010 Leoville Las Cases. ie it rates a wine at different stages (sorry to sound like a tosser...).
An answer could be that it would command a premium over a "lesser" wine so a Parker 90 might sell for 1.5x what a Parker 85...
There are also those who thoroughly disagree with Parker and the whole industry that has risen up around his ratings.
Did I answer _any_ of your question?
(Edit: reviewed my post. Yep, total tosser. Apols. In short, a 90-rated Parker wine would be something you would be delighted to receive from a guest at a supper party.)
Don't worry you sounded more knowledgeable than tosserish.
And as we have SeanT to set the standard for pretentious wine reviews you have nothing to worry about.
I asked because Lidl have a Chilean cabernet at 90PP for £6.99. Its pretty good but I don't have the palette to be discerning enough. Something for which I am rather grateful.
Am I the only person who finds cheap white wine perfectly drinkable but finds cheap red wine nasty stuff ?
Cheap being sub £4.
That's a good point.
Lidl do good cheap red wine though I find the big supermarkets don't.
James Kirkup is quite wrong in this article,Nick. One an be weak and dangerous at the same time. In fact for a politician like Ed milliband his very flip-flopping weakness can be a great danger to this country.
As for fathers, if Cameron or any of the others had a father with controversial views, I wouldn't dream of raising it, and - a separate point - I doubt if it would win any votes if we did. There is a PB poster with a relative who had controversial views, and nobody ever thinks it's relevant or even interesting. Come to that my dad's cousin was Tory Chief Whip - how appalling is that? :-)
I doubt if even Mail readers will change their views of Ed particularly.
If Cameron's dad was a fascist - or any father of any Tory minister - of course Lefties would bloody raise it. We'd never hear the last of it.
Moreover, Miliband by all accounts sees his Dad as a hero, and his career is a self-confessed attempt to further his father's beliefs (albeit in moderated form). So it is entirely relevant.
As an ex-communist yourself you probably find nothing objectionable in this, but arguing it is off-limits is absurd.
Er... wasn't Alan Clark, a Nazi ?
No, but he was an eccentric oddball with varied views and not afraid to express them.
As for fathers, if Cameron or any of the others had a father with controversial views, I wouldn't dream of raising it, and - a separate point - I doubt if it would win any votes if we did. There is a PB poster with a relative who had controversial views, and nobody ever thinks it's relevant or even interesting. Come to that my dad's cousin was Tory Chief Whip - how appalling is that? :-)
I doubt if even Mail readers will change their views of Ed particularly.
If Cameron's dad was a fascist - or any father of any Tory minister - of course Lefties would bloody raise it. We'd never hear the last of it.
Moreover, Miliband by all accounts sees his Dad as a hero, and his career is a self-confessed attempt to further his father's beliefs (albeit in moderated form). So it is entirely relevant.
As an ex-communist yourself you probably find nothing objectionable in this, but arguing it is off-limits is absurd.
Er... wasn't Alan Clark, a Nazi ?
No, but he was an eccentric oddball with varied views and not afraid to express them.
Saying you're a Nazi to shock people isn't the same as being one.
Clark was a self-obsessed oddball.
I'm sure he would have been happy to have been a Nazi in 1930s Germany, but the same could be said for numerous politicians in all the political parties.
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https://erobertparker.com/newsearch/vintagechart1.aspx
that's what Robert Parker thinks about the various regions - doesn't seem he has tasted the most recent Chilean wines.
My gut feel (!) is that for Lidl to be selling a £6.99 wine you can expect that it should be a more expensive one and is likely to be very good.
Plus never forget that a lot of the wine cost (£2?) is tax and a fixed cost so the more money you spend over that amount, the disproportionately better wine you will get.
Cheap being sub £4.
Lidl do good cheap red wine though I find the big supermarkets don't.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100009920/alan-clark-was-a-nazi/
Clark was a self-obsessed oddball.
I'm sure he would have been happy to have been a Nazi in 1930s Germany, but the same could be said for numerous politicians in all the political parties.
In the real world, stocks in Asia and Europe are up modestly this morning, and futures are indicating the US will open up too.