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.