Chris, on Wine
Welcome to my wine cellar, where I tell you about the wines I’m thinking, drinking, and sometimes cellaring.
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I’m passionate about wine! I’ve been enjoying and collecting it for over 50 years and I’ve built several home wine cellars during that time.
I started this blog to share my thoughts on the wine that I’ve been drinking. I’d welcome your comments … Chris Miley
Non-Gin Cocktails
In previous blogs we've looked at how to brighten up your basic G&T, and then we followed up by looking at some gin based cocktails. Here we look at some of our favourite non-gin based cocktails. Try some out, and please leave any comments in...
A Few Gin Based Cocktails
Part Two Of Getting Creative With Your Essential Isolation Item, Gin. A few of our favourite gin based cocktails. All measurements are per person. Ratios here are just what we have come up with to make it how we like it; you can have some fun...
Big Guns Blazing at this Bizarre Balloonless Birthday Blues Blowout
Since we could not invite people to come in to help celebrate my birthday, and we could not go out to a fine diner, we managed to bring the finer diner to us. Enter Indigo, the restaurant part of The Blue Mansion here in Penang. Delivered to...
Get Creative With Your Essential Isolation Item, Gin, While Locked Up In Lockdown
PART ONE Alone and in lockdown, you have wisely stocked up on the essentials – wine and gin. So much gin, and so much time. Here are a few ideas on how to add some variety to the wonder spirit. Hopefully you’ve also stocked up on limes and lemons,...
Stand in Soiree – Lowdown on the Lockdown Wine Tasting, 18 March 2020
In these times of lockdown, lockout and occasional lunacy, the axe fell on our scheduled tasting event at our regular haunt, Vantage Wine. We took the sensible step of gathering a few essential items, and hunkered down for our own lockdown wine...
Winesave Pro, The Ultimate Wine Preserver
I’ve been using the Winesave Pro now for just on one year. in that time l’ve used not quite three canisters. I’ve been a wine collector, writer and consumer for many years, and now that we reside in the tropics I also mix a range of cocktails. What...
Wine Dinner at Restaurant Markus December 2019
A very enjoyable and educational recent wine dinner at Restaurant Markus, hosted by Marcus Lai of Asia Wine Cellar showcasing the wonderful wines of Domaine Gros Frere et Soeur. All wines were from the same 2017 vintage but different plots in and...
2016 Ata Rangi Pinot Noir, Martinborough NZ. 13.0%
Ata Rangi is owned and run by Clive Paton and his wife Phyll, together with Clive’s sister Alison and winemaker Helen Masters. Clive planted the bare, stony home paddock at the edge of Martinborough in 1980 and, in doing so, was one of a handful of...
17th Wedding Anniversary Dinner, Penang
Well, we knew what the wines were going to be, so then to work backwards to choose the food. We had a Champagne and a Pinot Noir from New Zealand. The Champagne was flying solo, and we decided on a NZ rack of lamb (only fitting) cooked on the Weber...