Absolutely text-book Marlborough Pinot Noir from Brancott Estate selling for 25% off at Sainsbury.
It's superb at £10.99 and at £8.24 it is a steal.
Absolutely text-book Marlborough Pinot Noir from Brancott Estate selling for 25% off at Sainsbury.
It's superb at £10.99 and at £8.24 it is a steal.
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Nice recco, Jules. I'll defo check that out. I suspect it'll be a powerful bugger, though, and likely around 13.5% alc!
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I had couple bottles of South African 'Shiraz' a bit back 14/5% blew mi socks off
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I'm in the UK at the moment, and I've got to say one of the things I miss in France is the fabulous selection of real ales.
Since I've been over I've partaken of the following:
Two Hoots - Joseph Holt 4.2% A lovely refreshing ale,
Sneck Lifter - Jennings 5.1% One of my favourites, on the bitter side but great taste,
Ruddles County - Greene King 4.3% Nice ale but not as good as when it was Ruddles brewery at 5%,
Golden Goose - Green King 3.8% A new one to me, good satisfying session ale,
Hobgoblin - Wychwood Brewery 5.2% Another favourite, one of the best,
Spitfire - Shepherd Neame 4.5% Don't mind another one,
Old Speckled Hen - Morland 4.1% A definitive choice for good ale,
Bishops Finger - Shepherd Neame 5.4% At the top of the bitter scale for me but flavoursome,
Bombardier - Wells 4.7% Another nice tasty ale,
Victory Ale - Batemans 6.0% What can I say, flavour through and through, not too many though,
ESB - Fullers 5.9% One of my all time favourites, fabulous flavour,
In the pub today I had:
Special - Holdens 5.0% A good ale with a cheese, black pudding and onion cob, yum,
Summer Lightning - Hopback Brewery 5.1% A forgotten favourite, I could drink this till I fell over,
Needless to say a lie down was in order, but I,ve got to sample some more tonight at a bit of a get together
It's a hard life,
Alan
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I got absolutely rat arsed last night on the best Stout i have ever tasted.
Acorn 'Gorlovka' Imperial Stout 6% yum yum yum
Anybody tried Stella Artois Cidre? I have and I think it's great. Don't write it off as low alcohol 'cos it ain't. I don't drink a lot of cider but I really enjoy that one and their pear Cidre aint too bad either. Nice and refreshing for a summer afternoon and evening but perhaps not for cooler times .
Dave
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Power: Belkin PF40, Custom.hifi.cables Hydra and DC PSUs.
Sources: Self built HTPC with Xonar ST sound card, NAD T585 multi disc player, Sony BDP-S350, Squeezebox Touch, Techncs SL1210 (mod'd) + Nagaoka MP30, Thomson Sky HD box.
Amps etc.: 2 x Mini-T amps, MF-X10D Valve buffer clone, StanDAC 7520/Caiman (mod'd).
Speakers: Mission 774s with added super tweeters
Cables: best I can afford and likely to change except Homar's RF attenuated co-ax's and Mark Grant USB and HDMI cables. I also like silver i/cs and speaker cable.
Yup, it's nice stuff, Dave. Just a tad sweet for me, though, but certainly very drinkable! Gotta be served ice-cold...
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Recently had my jollies over in California and was completely bowled over by the range of beers and ales on sale, lots of choice.
This one was a particular favourite..
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