Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'wine'
More on CrushCamp
Discovered that one of the CrushPad winemakers who kindly hosted us at a recent CrushCamp is also a food and wine blogger: VMac + Cheese. She has taken the time to take a bunch of photos from my photoset and put together a storyline around it. Great reading if you're interested to understand the process better, especially as she has added keyword links to explanatory pages at CrushNet's EnoWiki too....
Making wine at Crushpad
On a recent trip to California got a chance to visit Crushpad. They are a high-end winery... where you are the winemaker. Some of my friends invested in them last year and one of them has been pushing a group of us to make a barrel of our own wine together. So we kicked off the process and it has moved along, for some reason without much enthusiasm from my part. Now after being there, including a half-day Crushcamp...
Le Gavroche
If you happen to be in London but feel the urge for really old-school French gourmet dining look no further than Le Gavroche. The settings resemble of an antiques store and the full two-dozen strong hierarchy of waiters (all French, bien entendu!) are so stylishly arrogant that I almost felt let down by the gray-haired gentleman who first welcomed us at the door: he was actually willing to shut an eye on my blue jeans on the condition that...
Dinner Joys Galore
A free tip for your next social event. Get a group of friends together in a Skype multichat. Set a date for a dinner. Divide courses and entertainment responsibilities and set no further rules. If your friends are anything like mine you will end up with six hours of pure joy featuring: Three types of game sausage (boar, deer & moose) Pickled wild mushrooms Home made bread Thai-style chicken skewers with cucumber-coriander salad Veal carpaccio parmigiano Phaesant leg on...
Which Michelin gave Hakkasan Their Star?
Hakkasan (SkypeFind reviews) has been on my to-go list for a long time. Can't even remember who was the very first to recommend it (and maybe the place was just better a year+ ago?). It is right around the corner from our London office, but for a reason or another I never made it. Now I did and what a complete disappointment it was. GOOD: Those who had 'em, praised the cocktails. Dimsum & duck appetizers were nice. That's...
Burgundy
Spent five days of my vacation in France to get Burgundy checkmark to the wine-areas-visited list, next to Bordeaux and French Catalonia (Languedoc Roussillon) trips from a few years ago. Chateau du Four de Vaux was our base camp pictured above. Should you ever look for a place to chill at with a group of friends - very highly recommended. As Kusti has already done some more thorough reporting (in Estonian) on our visits to Joseph Drouhin winery in...
Visual Connotations in the World of Rabbits
Boy, this designer has had fun with the wine label. I can just imagine him sitting in front of a fancy Mac and starting with a blank InDesign worksheet. To point out some of the obvious examples of what was twirling in his head around the French Rabbit brand: the letters "bb" in brand typography still motion hopping on top (powered by methane exhumes from the rabbits, as noted by someone) oh, do carrots hop now as well, with...
Le Table des Guilloux
Had an excellent dinner with colleagues at Le Table des Guilloux a bit outside Luxembourg city. As it was quite late on Sunday evening and after two tiring delayed flights, I did not feel like taking written or even mental notes on what exactly we had for food and wine, just enjoyed ourselves. To put it bluntly in the non-gourmet-review language: Oysters were the sweetest I've ever had. Almost as if they were caramel filled. Asparagus under perfectly lightly...
Pied á Terre
Had a lovely romantic dinner at Pied á Terre on Charlotte street in London, a two Michelin star venue run by Shane Osborn. (Trivia fact: he apparently was the first Australian to ever receive a Michelin star recognition in 1999). Everything from the apperative Apple Martini to the basics of how bread & butter are served was as perfect as the first time I was there about 6 months ago. Highly recommended. The menu on their website seems to...
Two men and a baby
If you're hanging around Covent Garden and don't quite feel up for shopping it can be amazingly hard to find a place to sit down at that would offer a glass of wine AND be baby friendly (e.g. not loud and smoky). Those witty Eastern Europeans always find a DIY solution if a commercial one is not available. Kalm serving wine & cheese from Tesco's, on a bench behind a nearby church this time. (And no, it was just...
Valentine the Cat
Cat of Hearts aka the Valentine's Day dinner table decorations reshuffled in the Three Sisters restaurant. As a sidenote, the 3S hotel which hosts the restaurant would definitely be my #1 choice for a place to stay at if I didn't live in Tallinn but just travelled here occasionally. The whole evening was just perfect. The oysters very fresh (as the should be on a Wednesday, as most places up north here fly their batches in every Thursday). Our...
Riesling on fire
On the last Sunday evening of his vacation Ott suddenly discovered that his glass of Alsace Riesling (to accompany ML's tasty first chicken salad with tuna dressing in their new kitchen) is throwing out flames....
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