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Happy Loi Krathong

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Now that I’m living in Asia I need to get accustomed and familiar with Asian culture and “how it’s done” in Asia. This is not as easy at it sounds but I’ve always seen myself as an open minded individual and I am willing to try everything once! However it was a bit of a shock [...]

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Tuna Tartare Recipe & El Prado Tempranillo Rosé (serves 2)

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Tartare refers to chopped raw meat or fish. Steak tartare is the most well known version but tuna and salmon tartare is becoming increasingly more popular. The word is derived from the name Tartars, an ethnic group from Eastern Europe and parts of Asia. A popular legend is that the Tartars kept raw meat under [...]

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Gavi wine with Risotto Nero and Garlic Squid Recipe

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We choose a Araldica La Luciana Gavi wine to enjoy with a Risotto Nero and Garlic Squid Recipe (Serves 2) Risotto Nero (black rice) gets its name from the black color the rice acquires when cooked with its signature ingredient, squid ink. It’s a weird and wonderful sensation to be served black food. I love this [...]

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Recipe Vegetarian Risotto

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The vegetarians are knocking on the door & you’ve only prepped peppered steak with brandy sauce! What to do? Dawid comes to the rescue with quick and easy pea & spinach risotto Recipe for under £5. Serves 4  We knocked up this for lunch the other day – done in a jiffy! To make a [...]

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Muscat wine – great with dessert

Muscat de Beaumes de Venise, 2007, France

Inspector Grape can reveal that Muscat is the only grape in the world that can produce a wine that actually smells and tastes of grapes.  Muscat is widely grown in Portugal and Spain, where the grape and the wines produced from it are known as Moscatel or Muscatel.(for more info see Wikipedia)  It is also one [...]

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The Rhone Valley wine with minted lamb cutlets

Chat-en-Oeuf, 2007

Inspector Grape’s unquenchable thirst for soft and juicy wine takes him to the Rhone Valley to see if the blending of two grape varieties, Syrah and Grenache will live up to the description. Classic Cote du Rhone, 2007, Waitrose £3.99 This young Rhone wine was made from two grape varieties called Syrah and Grenache. Although [...]

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Beaujolais with Roast Chicken stuffed with grapes

Georges Duboeuf Chiroubles

Inspector Grape continues his quest to find soft and juicy wines. He turns to the Beaujolais region where the best wines provide the yardstick for all the world’s attempts to put red freshness into a bottle. This wine is essentially flirtatious with a juicy aroma that, combined with its promise of appetizing acidity, is sufficient [...]

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Pinot Gris

Finca Las Higueras, Mendoza, Argentina

This increasingly fashionable vine variety is responsible for producing soft, gentle perfumed wines with more body and colour than most white grapes out there. Finca Las Higueras, Mendoza, Argentina 6.19 Waitrose This wine immediately shouts out: I’m different!! Lovely white peach and blossoms with red and green apple on the finish. This is different from [...]

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Riesling white wine & perfectly paired Riesling food!

The Naked Grape, Riesling, Pfalz, Germany,

Riesling white wine is produced from Inspector Grape’s favorite grape! It is extremely sad that the public still thinks of Riesling as a “sweet” wine when 90% of all Riesling in the UK is dry! So many people are missing out on beautiful Riesling when choosing white wine not to mention perfectly paired Riesling food! We put 4 top Rieslings to the test, some cheap and some, well, not so cheap!

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