clarets

Others had a nice taste in clarets, and a delicate appreciation of the respective merits of rum or whisky punch.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

As a sommelier in the 90s I had occasion to drink a thousand clarets you would have called "old" at the time.

What We Drank (July 7, 2009) 2009

Wine tasting was historically one of the more interesting and enjoyable events that was put on at Davos, but it got nixed in 2009 when conspicuous consumption of first-growth clarets was considered inappropriate in the face of the global financial crisis.

Wine tasting at Davos, 2011 edition Ezra Klein 2011

They had identified brett as what they considered to be a wine fault, and then they were finding it in a lot of clarets and were always looking for an angle as to why Australian wines were superior to French wines.

Faulty Wine? When to Put a Cork In It 2010

Menus distributed on board offered a choice of six different clarets, four champagnes, five liqueurs, and nine varieties of hard liquor, including an anonymous “American rye” priced 20 percent higher than Haig & Haig, Jameson, Johnnie Walker, or any of the other imported brands.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Menus distributed on board offered a choice of six different clarets, four champagnes, five liqueurs, and nine varieties of hard liquor, including an anonymous “American rye” priced 20 percent higher than Haig & Haig, Jameson, Johnnie Walker, or any of the other imported brands.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

The property was the star wine in the Bordeaux classification of 1855 and, despite a disappointing patch in the late 1960s, has emerged in recent vintages as one of the region's top-performing clarets.

The Lafite Phenomenon Will Lyons 2010

In reviewing the top clarets of the recently-released 2008 vintage, Parker has just put a bomb under the trade by (in their view) doling out far too many big scores in his 100-point marking system.

World Wine-Scoring Federation smackdown 2009

In reviewing the top clarets of the recently-released 2008 vintage, Parker has just put a bomb under the trade by (in their view) doling out far too many big scores in his 100-point marking system.

World Wine-Scoring Federation smackdown 2009

She was French as only a French woman can be, and had lips as plump and as deliciously scarlet as the French clarets that touched his palate and ran rivers through his veins each night.

Outing Montezuma 2009