Asti and Moniack
I decided to check out exactly where Asti Spumante comes from in Italy. Surprise, surprise, it's northern Italian. As the dear partner said, it's from my spiritual home :-) Unfortunately, a whole bottle didn't get me drunk. Mind you, that 'whole' bottle was actually one of those small two-glass bottles ... It didn't even get me slightly wobbly. I must try harder.Haven't hit the Moniack Mead yet. I tend to hoard this, and get it out on special occasions. It's the best mead I've ever tasted. It tastes of honey, but isn't over-sweet. It has a real kick as well. It's how I imagined ancient mead would taste, though I'm sure wrong. Also in the cupboard is some Domesday Mead, on sale at Kelmarsh, and is made at the Lurgashall Winery for English Heritage. I've had it before. Again, it's not the sweetest, but still tastes of honey. It's OK, though not as good as the Moniack!
Am still deciding whether or not to go to this weekend's show. Providing no further hostilities occur before Friday, we may yet still go. The van-hire now requires us to pay up front, so we'll have a van no matter what. But do I want to spend a whole weekend with possible confrontation in the offing?
This blog is getting to sound like a bleedin' soap opera! Come to think of it, one of the comments in the York Writers competition was that my LOTR sounded like EastEnders or Emmerdale. That's why I was so surprised when my entry won. Er, no, there's no plane crash in LOTR, though there's room for me to do a sort of Queen Vic tavern.
posted by Alex Bordessa @ Wednesday, August 31, 2005
4 Comments:
Alex, the comments on your entry above got crowded, so I'll post on this one. Sorry you're dehydrated after the re-enactment, but I hope the event went well!
I've removed the spam comments, and put word verificaiton on now!
I don't understand your comment Serenius. All I said was that I liked Asti Spumante and that is was from northern Italy. I recently discovered that some of my ancestors (the Bordessas) are from Como, Italy, and strangely I like Asti. And I'm afraid that was *all* I was saying.
Serenius, I was worried that I had somehow been offensive, and I'm glad to hear I wasn't.
It's a shame you've seen lots of rude stuff about Italy :-( But generally, certainly in the UK, there's not particularly bad stuff said. I'm thrilled to have Italian ancestors, whereever they might be from in that country.
btw, your English is somewhat better than my Italian ... :-)
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