Glass of wine, anyone?

Advantages: Delicious full bodied wine, nice colour
Disadvantages: none

...prefer to drink my wine out of oversized glasses, I find that bigger glasses (that are rounded near the rim) allow more fof the aromas to reach your nostrils. This wine smells very oaky, and mature, with overtones of cherry and a kind of vanilla aftersmell. The wine tastes delicious, full bodied and strong and has a soft finish on your palate. It is an ideal accompaniment to red meat and pasta dishes, or matured cheeses. An hour and a half later the bottle is finished so it must have been good. Overall I would definitely recommend this wine and would rate it 9/10. Enjoy!...

TheHairyGodmother 21.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hardy's Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon

Fancy a glass? Wine not!

Advantages: On special offer at a Spar near you
Disadvantages: Stains

...away from any fabrics, I pour the wine into a 250ml glass. I notice the bottom is square, which can only be good news for those of us with sweaty hands. I can smell the spiciness as I hold it under my nose. Now for the taste test. I know that when wine tasting, the wine is supposed to be spat into a sawdust-filled barrel. I don't have one of those handy, besides, spitting is a habit I really don't want to adopt. I take a sip and swill it around my mouth. The label is correct. At first I can taste sumptuous blackberries with a spicy aftertaste. Delicious. Due to monetary problems, I attempted to make my own wine once - it went dreadfully wrong and had bits in it. It was like rocket fuel, however and fulfilled a purpose late at nights. I would thoroughly recommend this wine - it is delicious. But will one bottle be enough? Time to...

kevindye 19.08.2008 (28.08.2008) · Read review
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Review of Rosemount Estates Australian Shiraz

Where's The Wine?

Advantages: Quite Tasty
Disadvantages: Covered In Sugar

...I got home a couple of nights ago, turned on my PC and settled down to eat a packet (or at least part of a packet) of Fruit Pastilles only to discover in horror, that in my hurry to pick up the local newspaper and something to chew on, on the way home from work, I'd made a bit of a boob and must have picked up a packet of Wine Pastilles in error. The look on my face must have been comical, my other half said I looked like a little spoilt child with my bottom lip stuck out, and eyes bulging like they were about to burst. I must admit I hadn't actually had Wine Pastilles before so after the initial disappointment had worn off I decided to give them a try. The Background Wine Pastilles were originally made by a company called Maynard's who are the same people that make the Fruit Pastilles and Wine Gums. Maynard have been making...

micksheff 13.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Maynards Wine Pastilles

Breaking Glass, the sound of a shattered career

Advantages: Good music and insight into Britain in the early 80's
Disadvantages: Certain scenes are very difficult to watch now

...1980, Punk was dying and 2 Tone was only just getting established in the Midlands. Music was either the New Wave alternative, Glam Rock , Prog Rock or Disco. And what was Coventry songstress Hazel O'Connor doing with herself. Making this movie, Breaking Glass. It's about a young woman called Kate (apparently named after Kate Bush) trying to break into music from the bottom in the London music scene. Along with a fairly young Phil Daniels fresh from Quadrophenia who plays her manager Danny are Jonathan Pryce playing their deaf saxaphone player Ken, Ken Campbell playing the pub landlord who hosts the bands early gigs (and consistantly refuses to pay them for any), Mark Wing Davey (better known as Zaphod Beeblebrox) playing the record exec that Phil is helping to artifically create sales for. As far as other musical talent there is...

atytyut2434 09.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Breaking Glass (DVD)

Heart of Glass

Advantages: A superb story
Disadvantages: No real dislikes for me

...NOTE: There are some spoilers here due to the nature of the film. Shattered Glass won some pretty good reviews from the critics as did Hayden Christensen for his portrayal of Stephen Glass the man who inspired this movie. This was my first opportunity to see the man who would be Vader since Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, so how was it? = What's it all about? = Those fearful words raise their head again “based on a true story”, Shattered Glass is based on a journalistic scandal involving reporter turned novelist Stephen Glass. It is a tale of truths and lies, Stephen Glass is a reporter for The New Republic magazine, big deal? Well it also happens to be the magazine of choice...

Matt.Blundell 21.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Shattered Glass (DVD)

Fine Virgin Wines

Advantages: Great value boutique wines
Disadvantages: The on-line wine auctions are addictive!

...I have been buying from Virgin Wines for about three years and I have been consistently impressed with the quality and value for money of their wines. They have got a very good range of wines from all around the world, which vary in price from as little as £4 right up to £85 for a bottle of Dom Perignon 2000. I belong to their Wine Bank, which is effectively a loyalty programme. You pay £20 each month into the Wine Bank and every three months Virgin Wines will add another £20 in interest, so when you come to buy your wine you effectively get 25% off. You can pay more into your Wine Bank if you want to and you will be rewarded with a reciprocal amount of interest (i.e. £30 a month would attract £30 interest and so on). Because most of the wines they stock are generally small production 'boutique' wines, you cannot buy them anywhere...

staceyjwall 22.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Virgin Wines

The Beauty of Glass

Advantages: Simply beautifully moving
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...I find it very difficult to begin to try and explain Philip Glass? Solo Piano because despite my preponderance of music ops I have absolutely no understanding of the theory behind music; terminology and technique means nothing to me: this is not a virtue and especially in attempting to explain the subtle delight in Glass? music I find myself flummoxed, but I shall try nevertheless, if only because no one else has and it is music that I love. I am very much a new convert to Glass? music and am now firmly entrenched in the belief that his work is magnificence of the highest order. From my little knowledge of outward cultural reaction to Glass it always appears to me that he has a following of near cult status, unusually successful and yet somehow shunned by critics and the establishment in favour of other composers. I am perhaps wrong...

No_name 15.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of Solo Piano - Philip Glass

Through a glass darkly

Advantages: Good Conclusion
Disadvantages: Slow pace

...discover all the charges against Marco have been dropped. Upon his release the three men bump into Marco's father in law De Cal, an owner of the local glass making plant. He is furious with Marco and threatens to hurt him. After some informal enquiries Brunetti is satisfied that 'the old man' is just shouting his mouth off and means him no actual harm. Then Giorgio Tassini, the Night Watchman at the Glass Plant is found dead. Upon investigation he has also been talking bitterly about the Plant to everyone. Brunetti discovers he has a dossier about the Plant, claiming the owner to be responsible for his two year old daughter's bad health. The Commissario must find out if it is Tassini's own guilt that makes him believe this or if there really is a case to answer by De Cal and the other next door plant owner Fasano. My thoughts...

CPTDANIELS 31.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Through a Glass, Darkly - Donna Leon

Drinking glasses....not to be confused with beer goggles!

Advantages: A novelty item, ideal to entertain my son, and any other male in the house!
Disadvantages: Only a cheap and cheerful item, not really made to last.

...My sisters boyfriend decided this christmas to buy the entire of my family a gift each, this being due to the fact he has reached and surpassed the two year mark of "courting" my younger sister, this in my families book makes him officilaly part of the family! Now with the older generation, (myself included), we are reasonably easy to buy for, chocolate and booze being at the top of our wish lists. There are two certain people who are not so easy to buy for, not that they have discernable tastes, but more the fact they receive so much stuff on Christmas morning that getting a present that hasn?t already been bagged by another relation is very bloody difficult. Of whom do I speak?. Well my two children of course! The gift that he finally decided on for my son is - ?Drinking glasses, by Tobar? These in themselves are pretty...

sarahbarrow 04.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tobar Drinking Glasses

Glass Lake

Advantages: good read
Disadvantages: none

...I found The Glass Lake a very enjoyable read and it was very hard to put down. It is set in Ireland in a rural village. The story focuses on the main character Kit McMahon and her relationship with her mother Helen McMahon. Plot Summary Helen McMahon who was very beautiful and glamourous was deserted by her lover. She then marries Martin Mcmahon and moves to a small village called Lough Glass. They had two children Kit and Emmet. She was not very happy even though she appeared to have everything. She was still restless and was hankering after the man called Louis who had broken her heart before she has married Martin McMahon.. Then one day she vanishes leaving a note address to Martin. Kit her daughter finds the note before Martin does and thinks that her Mother had committed suicide. But she had runaway to England with her...

ruth1957 17.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Glass Lake - Maeve Binchy