Cascinetta Vietti Moscato d’asti 2005
Piemonte, Italy (North West of Italy - inland and above Genoa). 5.5% alcohol. Approx $A25 for a half bottle. Cork sealed. This is not a wine for great introspection - it lacks line, length and it has no great complexity.
Aleramico Barbera d’Asti 2003
Red stinky leather on the nose, quite stinky really, with raspberry fruits, earth and dry savoury spices. The palate is lighter bodied, with sweet red fruits matched by spice, leather and black earth. There is also a fair amount of acid
Holiday pics
I suppose I ought to post my drunken holiday pics. Unfortunately I was so busy cooking and being a good hostess that there aren't many. And the tree pics are from the following day. DSC00270 DSC00271 DSC00277
Willard White, bass-baritone, Eugene Asti, piano - Sun 3 Dec 2006
2006 7:30 pm - Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall - A fantastic chance to hear the acclaimed Jamaican bass-baritone Willard White in a recital of works by Purcell, Schubert, Schumann, Britten, Bowles and Copland, with pianist Eugene Asti
Gobble Gobble!
Chestnut stuffing made - regular and veggie. Check. Bird stuffed - Check. Cranberry/orange/port sauce made - check. Bird in oven - check. potatoes dauphinoise in second oven - check. candied sweet potatoes in oven - check
OPEN IX sprearheaded by ASTi
Sir Denis Villorente of ASTI was the chief moderator at the 1st stakeholders meeting of the OPEN IX at the NCC conference room. The OPEN IX is an internet exchange More details are going to be posted at the asti.dost.gov.ph website.
I love this man
What a perfect day. A combinaton of utter indulgence and accomplishment. We wre out until about 6am and then up until 8am (down boys!). And thne up again at 1pm. Nonetheless, we manageed to do the following: get the secind dining set
Xmas Prep
We've really gone into xmas prep mode here at the wharf. Hit John Lewis today and bought festive table linens even got gold reindeer napkin rings (trust me, they're adorable). And I've ordered the tree. It's an 8 foot Nordman.
Beviamo Moscato D’Asti nv wine review by PB
Moscato D’Asti’s are typically fun wines with plenty of spritz on the palate and a fruity sweetness that simply scintillates your senses. This wine is NOT such a wine. I bought it at Sam’s Club for $14–a painful acknowledgment–and had
I have a dream
Heat at Last! Heat at Last! Thank God Almighty, we have heat at last! We've been struggling with a fucked up boiler in the west wing for several weeks. Last week, the landlord'c cowboy plumber showed up and managed to diagnose the
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