Cheese and wine

Solly · June 25, 2003, 14:07

You an't beat a good strong cheese...Caerphilly and Emmenthal are my favourites right now.

As for wines, six months ago I was more into white but since my parents are away I seem to have taken to plundering their red wine stash. Currently on a northern Spain 2001 bottle, Bodega Virgen Blance, Lerin, Temprenillo. Good stuff. Just hope it's not too expensive..

Cruddy · June 25, 2003, 14:12

Jarlsberg goes well with some whites - medium dry or sweeter.

At this rate you won't be able to afford that Holiday Bods.

Japher · June 25, 2003, 14:14

If it has a cork my guess it is pretty expensive

Solly · June 25, 2003, 14:14

The wine is free...at the moment.

We had quite a lot of cheese in when my parents left. I've ran out of Emmenthal though. Just left with a small slab of Caerphilly (thanks to Provost demolishing it) and some bland cheddar. Some soft stilton or something like that, but it is wrapped in some dodgy cling film and I don't fancy having the kitchen smelling for a week of sweaty toes.

Solly · June 25, 2003, 14:15

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Originally posted by Japher
If it has a cork my guess it is pretty expensive

What, like £2.99 a bottle?

Tell you what really pisses me right off - those platic corks. Sure they might keep the wine betetr but they are a right bugger to get off corkscrews. I've had to take scissors to them twice.

Provost Harrison · June 25, 2003, 14:25

Wine down the pub? Isn't that a b*tch drink?

Ecthy · June 25, 2003, 15:55

How did he "demolish" the cheese? In an "American Pie" sense?

alva · June 25, 2003, 17:47

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Wine down the pub? Isn't that a b*tch drink?

Also known as chateaux migraine.
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monolith94 · June 25, 2003, 17:54

I will never stop loving mozzerella.

Ecthy · June 25, 2003, 18:00

monolith

Drogue · June 25, 2003, 19:02

I hate cheese with a passion. Not just that I'm alergic to it, but I have always found it absolutly disgusting

As for the wine, it's young (for a Spaniad), and not from any of the main regions (such as Rioja or Ribero Del Duero). My guess is it won't be too expensive. You probably know how much your parents usually spend on wine, and where they get it from, but my guess is somewhere between £4 and £7 per bottle. I'm getting more and more into Spanish reds, you can pick up an old, decent one ('88 or '89) for less than £10, and anything I've found in my local shop for £5 or so has been very drinkable.

Much as I am sure screw caps keep the wine just as good, and cost less, as I keep being told by all these 'fasionable' wine people on TV, it just isn't the same. I'll use a good ol' cork anyday. Imangine Champagne with a screw cap

Just wouldn't be the same.

alva · June 25, 2003, 19:31

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I will never stop loving mozzerella

What's there to love??? It doesn't taste of anything, is expensive and is basically some left-over from the real thing.

Ecthy · June 26, 2003, 04:40

alva, it does have its own taste, and even if it's not too strong, it's just nice to eat it. Like potatoe chips / crisps. They can taste like sh!t and you'll still eat them. That's because of glutamates, but still.

alva · June 26, 2003, 09:06

Hmm, ok, but to jump from that and make it your favorite...

It's ok when it melted, but the classic with tomato and some herbs and oil

Ecthy · June 26, 2003, 09:10

mmm....

alva · June 26, 2003, 09:23

Try the same with a gently melted goatscheese

(or even fried

)

Ecthy · June 26, 2003, 09:28

goatscheese can be good, but not the light stuff you get in the west. my grandparents once brought cool goatscheese from greece or so, it was brown (or was it sheep cheese? if cheep cheese is feta this must have been goat cheese) and tasted like heaven

Ecthy · June 26, 2003, 09:29

funny how the term is at the beginning of three lines out of three. so much for posting aesthetics.

DAVOUT · June 26, 2003, 09:40

My most recent associations :

- Pont-l'Evèque with Chambolle Musigny 89
- Saint-Nectaire with Chateau Haut-Brion 88