Quotations of the week

[shewhomust]

desperance says: "There are not only more books than you imagine, there are more books than you can imagine."

- which is true. And he hasn't even seen the pile in the bedroom.

Mel Gibson says: "Avatar? Dances with Smurfs."

So that's one movie I needn't go and see, then.

Helen Savage says: "Mourvèdre is always best when it can see the sea."

I need to verify this. Bring me several bottles of mourvèdre, and a map.

Further to that last: of the wines we tasted at Helen's Corbières and Minervois dinner last week, I particularly enjoyed the La Combe des Oliviers 2007, which is 70% mourvèdre, and available from Majestic; also - though this one is mainly carignan / grenache - the Domaine du Grand Arc Cuvée des Quarante, which she purchased from The Grape Unknown, a farmer turned wine merchant based at Kiln Pit Hill in south Northumberland. They have a web site, allegedly, but there's no information on it, so here's Helen's article in the Journal instead.

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Not sure on the Mourvèdre thing myself, as I have been tasting some very nice Mourvèdres from around Paso Robles and the Santa Cruz mountains recently. Maybe it's the fog and the temperature ranges, or just the terroir.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the line is just too Francocentric. It's the sweeping unreasonableness of it that appealed to me, actually.

I'd ask you to name names, but you're just taunting me with wines I can't buy in the UK, aren't you?