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Celebratory birthday bottle which went perfectly with the pork roast. Less fruit than I was expecting but plenty of earthy, leathery and smoky notes - overall a fantastic bottle.
(Technically drunk over the weekend but I forgot to post!)
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Another manic working day coming to an end, making Danteâs purgatory seem like a holiday camp! 
OK, maybe thatâs a bit OTT, but not that far from the truth.
Anyway, Savoie to the rescue! This is an old-vine Jacquère wine from the ever-reliable Domaine Jean-François QuÊnard:
Itâs subtle, understated and ever-so-delicate - but you can sense the concentration of the old vines (60 years old apparently); thereâs lovely and fragrant orchard fruit, delicate honey, fresh herbs and wet stones on the nose, and similar notes follow on the palates with ripe and delicious pears, honey, Alpine herbs and a zinging minerality. Itâs rounded and generous and uplifts the tired spirit! 
The husband is making a leek, mushroom, bacon and Reblochon tart, so Iâll pretend that weâre in a chalet somewhere, far far away from studentsâŚâŚ
Happy Tuesday! 
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Are you a teacher Inbar âŚâŚ I have 3 children who are teachers for their sins
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Oh goodness, no!
I am a mental health adviser and support coordinator for students. Theyâre (mostly) really lovely, but as the world is turning madder and madder - so are they (and I).
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Weâre having Roast Chicken with Morels (in cream sauce), and TBH Iâm being indecisive, do we go with a
ie A Mount Pleasant Lovedale
or
A rather broad-shouldered Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Sec from Berthomieu
or
A Tokaj Nobilis Tokaji Furmint (from TWS)
Please help, I have 30 minutes before OH emerges from the shower and is expecting dinner to be a decisive affair 
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Iâm afraid I canât remember who recommended this one, but thank you!
https://www.thewinesociety.com/product/trere-re-famoso-bianco-ravenna-2020
Very pale but full of floral flavour, the TWS description covers it very well. Definite repurchase after Christmas.
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Mount Pleasant vote here
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Itâs open. 
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First Contino Iâve tried. Trying this with one eye on the Olivo in the rack. Caveats: 2017 wasnât great in Rioja.
Itâs distinctive as Riojaâs go. More liquorice, than I have ever experienced in a rioja. Good balance of fruit and complexity, tannins not overt.
I see why people struggle to place it in the modern/traditional Rioja classification. Itâs distinctive more towards modern for me
Itâs a great first taste from the Contino family
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Door 14 and itâs Kiwi sauvignon blanc but this time from Nelson:
Back label says it tastes of ⌠whatâs thatâŚ?
Feijoa??
Now I feel totally inadequate. I started looking it up but just stopped caring very quickly.
Anyway, to me the nose was more like grapefruit, but with a nice sweetness to it, grassiness very much in the background, and the lime was more on the palate. Not as mouth-puckering as I was expecting, just refreshing and tasty.
Feijoa, for goodnessâ sake, pfff. Iâm hoping this is the most unhelpful descriptor ever, because the alternative is that I really need to get out more, although I suppose both could be true⌠
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Feijoas are a very common fruit in NZ (and in parts of South America, I think). They have a distinctive taste. If it is accurate, then to me it is a helpful descriptor. I am not sure that it is Seifriedâs fault that you havenât heard of it?
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I had to check
âFeijoas taste like taking the best elements of strawberry, guava and pineapple and mixing them together. They smell pleasantly sweet and flowery. To eat a feijoa, cut (or rip) it in half and scoop out the inside creamy white flesh (a little brownish color is fine to eat). Feijoas are a good source of vitamin C, fiber and potassium, and they even contain a little protein.â
Yes, I should get out more too.
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No, it isnât, and I probably do need to get out more 
I think Iâm applying the can-I-find-it-in-Tesco-Metro test to whether or not a fruit descriptor is useful to the average wine drinker. It was bottled in the UK, but maybe itâs the same label as the New Zealand bottles.
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Very popular in Israel, as well. Lovely-looking plant, and fruit is good. Never seen it in a tasting note, though!
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I donât think its the same label (since Iâm not aware of Seifried using the name âNelson Bayâ in NZ; they use âSeifriedâ, âAoteaâ and âOld Coach Roadâ - see Shop Online - Seifried Estate Winery) but the tasting note is clearly written by Hermann Seifried himself, which would explain the reference to feijoa.
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Trying to track one down in Yeovil and, well, I think theyâre trying to tell me somethingâŚ!
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Thatâs almost as accurate as the TWS search engine! 
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Must admit, Iâve never heard of it either. My mind (typically) went straight to pork and thought what a curious tasting note for Sauvignon Blanc
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I have grown this as a shrub, it rarely fruits here unless in a greenhouse and is known as the Pineapple Guava, sounds a bit pseuds corner for a descriptorâŚ
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