Sugrue South Downs Rosé Ex Machina 2018
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- First time for me to try a rosé English sparkling wine from Sugrue South Downs: www.sugruesouthdowns.com/prod...
From a mixed case titled "La Bee en Rose": www.sugruesouthdowns.com/prod...
Wow two thumbs downs on this video - a new record for this channel! Normally almost every single video gets one thumbs down - presumably from a really dedicated subscriber, as it's often within minutes of publishing a video...
...but to hit the heady heights of two must mean there was something extra special about this one!
Another delightful and entertaining review. Nice choice of setting, I may add. So funny you should feature a Sugrue product. Until about three, or was it four, months ago I had never heard of Sugrue (please excuse my ignorance). A good friend in Alexandria (Virginia) invited the wife and I to dinner and, amongst a handful of selections, served a bottle of “Trouble with Dreams.” A delightful blend which my wife loved. I’ll now have to hunt for their “Ex Machina” to pair with the summer heat. Thank you for sharing…Cheers!!! 🍻
Thanks Ed! I'm impressed you can get Sugrue's wine at all in the US! I thought only the biggest English sparkling producers like Nyetimber were able to export anything. Sugrue South Downs is still a very small producer, but Dermot Sugrue had much wider influence than that as he formerly did contract winemaking for a lot of other small producers/vineyards. Now though he just focuses on his own thing - perhaps it will grow to be much bigger?
Hi John, this one had a lovely colour to it. Sweet wines are not for me unless we are talking about a decent sherry or port.
A magnificent setting maybe there's still life in that tree yet, I hope so.
Have a great weekend
Thanks David! I actually do like sweet wines but only when I'm expecting it! Definitely port, yes - I also enjoy Sauternes now and again. With sherry I always tend to go with the dry ones like a fino or manzanilla, but usually because I'm having it with food and I think that works a bit better. I only really know the sweeter sherries from sherry finished whisky!
Yes I hope the tree might live on in some form. It's a few months since it came down, and I had assumed the Hampstead Heath authorities would come along and remove it, but it seems like they're just leaving it be - maybe they too noticed it is still growing.
If you get the chance try a Gonzalez Byas Noe 30 years. We tasted some after visiting the winery in Jerez and came away with a bottle, we just couldn't resist it, not cheap but doesn't compare to Burgundy prices I think. The tour is excellent you will find barrels signed by Winston Churchill amongst many other notable people and is topped off by the mice!! I kid you not, they put a glass in the bodega with a little ladder and out pops a mouse who climbs up has a sip or two and makes his (or her) way home wobbling from side to side. You will find videos of this.
For a while our treat was a glass of port which was given to me by a Portuguese company who were making some injection moulding tools for us. Amazing area a couple of hours north of Lisbon deep in the woods lots of high tech machinists and moulding companies which apparently all grew out of the wine bottle manufacturing industry. The bottles long gone now but I do have the box it came in
I don't think I've tried sauternes wine before, a quick read tells of nobly rotted grapes!! I shall have a look out for it.
Thinking about it I don't really like the sweet sparkling wines but I did grow up thinking wine was either Blue Nun (or was that German pornography, I forget!!), liebraumilch or Mateus Rose so maybe I would still enjoy a German wine!!
I may have digressed here!!
Thank you for explaining "deus ex machina", a phrase I have been meaning to look up for a while, and now I have.
I find my bottle of Mateus Rose never suffers from sunstrike, it is consistently cheap crap.
Fair play for it's consistency, though.
One day, a real wine.
One day...
Nice tree.
I had to look it up too! I have the sense it's typically used in the negative sense. I think it's something Agatha Christie was occasionally criticised for: introducing a completely new character in the last few pages who turns out to have "dunnit".