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Booze of the Week: Jameson’s Whiskey

Posted on February 7, 2019February 8, 2019by Old Parn
Glass and bottle of Jameson's Whiskey plus a softback edition of Joyce's Ulysses

The confluence of aesthetic principles and undergraduate pretension? Jameson’s Irish Whiskey, apparently. God knows why; I suppose you’ll have to read my Booze of the Week to find out.

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  • Wine Reviews & Tastings

Cellophanity, Putin-pleasuring and Pinot Gris

Posted on January 16, 2014January 3, 2019by Old Parn

A significant portion of which is devoted to a spirited ‘crie de coeur’ on the subject of ready meal packaging, and most of the rest of which contemplates distasteful sexual activities practised upon Russian politicians. I’m up-front about this stuff, y’know.

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  • Wine Reviews & Tastings

A Pinotage that’s all fruit and curves and perpetual smiling

Posted on July 30, 2012January 4, 2019by Old Parn

Manley Estate’s Pinotage is all fruit and soft curves and perpetual smiling — and I can’t help wishing it’d make me work a bit harder

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A Csárdás in a glass — Hilltop Hungarian White

Posted on July 16, 2012January 4, 2019by Old Parn

… is a tantalising, gob-watering Csárdás of a wine that lobs a grenade of tropicality — mandarins, lychees, peaches, the kinds of fruits that ooze when you squidge them — that follows up with an aftershock of dry, icy citrus

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Guest post: The Ubiquity Of Fizz

Posted on July 8, 2012January 31, 2019by Old Parn

In which Old Parn’s first guest blogger, Elly Tams, has her knickers charmed off by Prosecco

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  • Wine Reviews & Tastings

Battery Chardonnay or Jane Austen Chardonnay?

Posted on June 20, 2012January 4, 2019by Old Parn

… may not possess Austen-esque poise, but it has manners, and doesn’t overwhelm and disgust you with noxious belching

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  • Wine Reviews & Tastings

A wine that’s all about blackcurrant

Posted on June 13, 2012January 4, 2019by Old Parn

… is basically just like my parents’ blackcurrant jelly

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  • Wine Reviews & Tastings

A loving 70s housewife of a wine

Posted on June 3, 2012January 4, 2019by Old Parn

… has a picture of a horse on it

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  • Wine Reviews & Tastings

Pedro Ximenez Don Marcelo Jerez review

Posted on February 14, 2012January 4, 2019by Old Parn

… is delicious, extraordinary and quite goddamn sexy. Even if it *does* taste of raisins. Because wrinkles can be sexy, too.

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Bonterra Chardonnay 2009 review

Posted on October 24, 2011January 4, 2019by Old Parn

… is the kind of wine that probably wouldn’t mind holding onto your parcels for a day or two

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