The last bottle

Back in 2020 we were prompted to buy six bottles of a sweet German wine from one Dr. Hermann. Quite a decent sweet white, but one which I clearly went off, as the last bottle has been sitting in the cupboard for what seems like years, although actually only a little over three.

For some reason, yesterday evening we thought we would do the last bottle. First glass rather good, second glass rather sickly. So we only did half the bottle, despite it being a very modest 9% by volume, instead of the more usual 12% and more for most of the wine that we drink. So fine as an apéritif or a pudding wine, but not for slurping over a spot of costume drama. Plus it comes with an inconvenient cork. I don't suppose we will be buying any more - at least, not until we need some pudding wine, which is not very often.

Reference 2 suggests that the price climbs quite quickly with age, although I could not find this particular year. While reference 3 seems to think that this year - 2006 - is a good buy at 15 euros. 

I had forgotten what I paid Majestic, but gmail search reveals all in no time at all. A useful archive facility.

PS 1: reverting to solid food, we paid a visit this morning to the interior of Cheam Arena, a Turkish flavoured shop in North Cheam, first noticed at reference 4. It turns out to be a larger and flashier version of the store I use at Clapham Junction. So as well as the fruit & veg outside, inside there is lots of general grocery, mainly foreign, a large fresh meat department, a good selection of preserved & cooked meat of one sort or another and a very respectable bakery department. So I was able to buy BH some new-to-me Turkish delight from ikbal - rather like a soft nougat - and no doubt called something else over there, some more sausage, the very same as that noticed at reference 5, and an Iranian version of the Turkish flat bread I like. The Iranian version being thinner, much bigger in extent and rather paler, but otherwise very much the same sort of thing. Very good it was for lunch too. Only £1.50 or so, so rather better value than rolls from Costcutter, good though they are too. The Arena also offered decent looking white bloomers. I passed on sheep's head. A pity that they are probably out of comfortable cycling range these days.

PS 2: the Turkish phrase for coconut appears to involve the word 'Hindistan'. Perhaps the Turks were getting coconuts from somewhere on the Indian subcontinent long before we had heard of the things here in England.

PS 3: while this chap, offered by a London correspondent, is more into DIY on the food front. Rather more tricky than the snaps offered at reference 6, so we shall have to compare notes. Exposure, focal lengths and all that good stuff that proper camera buffs go in for.

References

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-majestic-promotion.html.

Reference 2: https://wp.weingut-drhermann.com/.

Reference 3: https://www.vivino.com/IT/en/weingut-dr-hermann-erdener-treppchen-riesling-auslese/w/2695793?year=2006.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/06/cheam-arena.html.

Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/04/kosova-suxhuk.html.

Reference 6: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/08/camera-notes.html.