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11/08/2024

Savaitės vynas:

91 Herdade do Gamito Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Portugalija, 15 Eur

Rimtas. Kvepia grietinėle, samanomis, aviečių uogiene. Skonis tvirtas su miško paklotės, gervuogių, skaidrių taninų raiška. Harmonijos dvelksmas. Geriausias 2024-2027 m. Platina UAB Gelsva. 14.5%

10/18/2024

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90 Rinomato Cantina Tombacco Aglianico del Beneventano IGT 2021, Italija, 10 Eur

Mielas miško paklotės, sakų, džiovintų slyvų aromatas. Skonis lygus, trešnių, slyvų, vidutinio poskonio, bet gero įspūdžio. Aktyvūs taninai, bet ne dratas. Vyninė veikia nuo 1919 m. Platina UAB Baltic XL, Geriausias 2024-2026 m. 14%

10/12/2024

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91 Ackerman Royal Crémant de Loire AOP Brut 2021, Prancūzija, 16 Eur

Aromatas pilnas mielių, mineralų, kaulavaisių. Skonis irgi pilnakraujis su obuolių, mineralų, pomelo natomis. Tikrai geras putojantis. Platina UAB Šiaulių tara. Geriausias 2024-2027 m. 12%

10/11/2024

Italy, Siena, Via Pantaneto 146, OSTERIA DA GANO: A failure to get a table ordering one the same evening. Next days you learn by reserving early. Tuscan staples, but you cannot miss Osso Buco alla senese (veal shank withtomato sauce) (13 Eur) which is rightly the most popular dish here. Long cooked meat and savioury sauce makes you mop all up after shank's polished off. Tagliata al porcini (steak with boletus) (18 eur) as a seasonal offer not on a regular menu, yet worth every bit to relish. French, Swedish languages around, and this is the very end of the old town - someone must know were to dine well. Glass of wine - 3 eur and you need more than one, believe me.

10/10/2024

Italy, Siena, Via Aretina, 10, La Macelleria di Alessio e Riccardo: meet for meat (corny pun though). They sell meat, they cook meat and they serious and fun about it! Getting a table in a 24-seat 1-floor seating, outside the old city behind the Pispini gate is next to impossible - fully booked. A snack table for one suffices. Humbly agreed. Beggars are not chosers. Arrive earlier. 19:30 is an option. The boyish and mercurial chef Alessio cuts a 670 gr T-bone slab (32 Eur) in front of your eyes (after you decline 1100-gram brick), promising the piece to be super and sending all ordering "well done" to the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno. Amen! Prosciutto di Siena on the house. Chiellini-smiley-type Riccardo returns two times to inquire about organoleptic impressions. Soft and flavourful. A steak, medium-rare, nicely sliced, full of juice and mouth-filling (literally too). Gargantuan anyway (why did I have lunch at 12:00?). When you work, you work, feast, you feast. 2 glasses of read wine (10 Eur) are a must. Rely just on a coffee in the next morning. Maybe, a grappa will do too. Not in the morning! Bar Romana knows the merry bunch down there. Links!

10/10/2024

Italy, Siena, Via Pantaneto 155, BAR ROMANA: A jack of all trades: for a cornetto pistacchio (1.4 eur) and a cappucco (1.5 eur) in the morning, for a ristretto machiatto (1.2 eur) before noon and for apperitivi before dinner. A wine glass 2.5 eur. Or 4 if you want to splash around. Amaros 3+4 eur. Students, elderly and white collars in the morning, anyone, including a random travelling couple of Germans, in the evening to enjoy a quick with chat with bartenders and a shot of this and that. Untill 21:00. Corner's favourite, never empty.

10/09/2024

Italy, Arezzo, Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 16, VINERIA DAL CHIODO Never! Never miss a chat with a person at the Etruscan archaeological museum and you will be guided here. Entering the place just behind two well-heeled septogenarian ladies into a semi-full osterria-vineria. Babies cry (a bit) here and nobody gives a damn. Empty places fly away as hot buns. Italians only. Getting louder and you like it. A 3-page menu turn Pavlovian reflexes on. Veal tripe or roast pork liver? Veal snout or veal shank? What a variety of simple, yet rare meals. Viva Toscana! Decided: duck and rabbit roasted with potatoes (12 Eur) and ...let's indulge ourselves 0.25 l red wine (5 Eur). The meal evokes something your granny may have slowly cooked. Melting, juicy and succulent. Nonna from the kitchen comes to greet a big (and hungry) family. You must thank her with "buoooono-buoooo-nisssiiiimo" aloud if you can stomach overwhelming feeling. And, a confession about a grave gastronomical sin: after the secondi ordering the antipasti (6 eur)... The vineria exudes such warmth that nobody wants to budge out. Memento mori and therefore have joie de vivre. The more, the better. P.S. yous for a small wine glass extra and get ...another 0.25 l. Voila! P.P.S The family stays here for 2+-hour lunch. Beat that for Wednesday lunch - you can, if you go for a café and an amaro Petrus Boonekamp (3 Eur).

10/07/2024

Italy, San Gimignano, Via dei Marsili, 1/3, TRATTORIA ANTICA MACELLERIA: come where the wild boars roam - not among the towers of San Gimignano, of course. This staple goes into the soul nourishing lunch dish. You cannot get away from a fresh, citrusy, flowery Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG (5 eur) with pappardelle con ragu di cinghiale (yes, wild boar sauce) (13 Eur). Elderly waiters, middle-age managers are on fire. All details noticed, (almost) all whims catered. Rainy, foggy, grey, cloudy, windy autumnal melancholy will dissolve in the convival welcome here. The place fills in fast. Babies coo, doggies drowse. Embrace it all. Mop the sauce with the bread, get an affirmative wink from a waiter, a shoulder pat from a chatty Aussie, and put a red smoky, plumy and earthy Chianti Colli Senesi wine on repeat. Feel no regrets - that's why you are here. "Picture, chef?" - "No". Waiters laugh. What's not to like?

10/06/2024

Italy, Siena, Via Pantaneto, 103b, SINDIE, a bar after 1:00. Acapulco. A song. And other Italian music oldies and hits. Feels like a beehive on steroids. Come and go, chat and laugh, a ca****la singing, and a random hip move on a chair too. Italian stout (3.5 Eur, 0.3 l) is perhaps the best nightcap for this the day...or night. Only plastic cups after midnight. No problemo. The youth rocking Monday on the doorstep.

10/02/2024

Didžiosios Britanijos putojantys vynai pastaraisiais metais susilaukia didžiulio vyno krittikų ir ekspertų dėmesio. Susipažinkime su UAB Hedonista pristatoma Wiston Estate vynine, kuri gali varžytis su geriausiais Šampano namais.Wiston Estate vynuogynai auga Sussex regiono South Downs nacionaliniame gamtos parke. South Downs tai kreidos kalvos. Kreida čia tos pačios kilmės ir amžiaus kaip šampanės Cote de Blanc regione ir yra labai arti paviršiaus, vos 25 cm gilyje. Toks dirvožemis puikiai tinka Chardonnay. Būtent todėl Wiston Estate vynuogynuose dominuoja ši vynuogių veislė, o jų vynai primena geriauisų Cote de Blanc šampanų stilių. Wiston Estate Vintage Blanc de Blanc tapo pirmuoju didžiosios Britanijos putojančiu vynu nurungusiu visus šampanus ir laimėjusiu Geriausio putojančio vyno titulą anot Decanter (Best in Show sparkling wine). Pati vyninė jau keturis kartus buvo išrinkta geriausia Didžiosios Britanijos vynine.Ragauti 6 vynai iš kurių net trys vintažiniai:Wiston Estate Brut NV Sussex NV – 4 metus brandintas su mielėmis. 35% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir, 30% Meunier. 93 Decanter.Wiston Estate Blanc de Blancs NV Sussex - 4 metus brandintas su mielėmis. 100% Chardonnay. 92 Decanter.Wiston Estate Rose Brut NV Sussex - 4 metus brandintas su mielėmis. 40% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Meunier. 92 Decanter.Wiston Estate Cuvee 2016 Sussex – vieno vynuogyno vynas. 92 Decanter.Wiston Estate Blanc de Noir 2014 Sussex – 8 metus brandintas su mielėmis. 96 Decanter.Wiston Estate Blanc de Blancs 2018 Sussex - pirmas istorijoje UK vynas laimėjes geriausio putajančio vyno titulą. 100% Chardonnay. 5 metus brandintas su mielėmis. 95 Decanter.

09/19/2024

Poland, Warsaw, Emilii Plater 25, LEGENDS: a British pub with all bells and whistles for football fans, for lonely men on Monday night, for neihbourhood lads and random strollers. Soothing Guinness (4.8 Eur), big TV and waiting not for Godot, but for the Champions League starting on Tuesday. Come that day and the bar oozes and rocks with rowdy vibes. Happy men again and again.

09/19/2024

Marques de Murrieta – ispanas, nusprendęs į Rioja regioną (ir visą Ispaniją) atvežti Bordeaux vyninių technikas: Prancūziško ąžuolo statines bei skirtingų vynuogių veislių maišymą. Šios, tuo metu drastiškos inovacijos, sukūrė dabartinį Rioja regiono identitetą, o vieną seniausių regiono vyninių, Marques de Murrieta pavertė tikra pasauline žvaigžde. Ne veltui Castillo Ygay Rioja Gran Reserva Especial DOCa 2010 vyną vienas įtakingiausių vyno kritiku Wine Spectator išrinko geriausiu pasaulyje!

Pasinerta į kvapų ir skonių šventę pas Hedonistą

Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Rioja Gran Reserva Especial Blanco DOCa 1986 (100 balų Robert Parker);
Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Rioja Gran Reserva Especial DOCa 2012 (100 balų James Suckling);
Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Rioja Gran Reserva Especial DOCa 2011 (97 balai Robert Parker);
Marques de Murrieta Rioja Gran Reserva DOCa 2015 (98 balai James Suckling);
Marques de Murrieta Rioja Reserva DOCa 2020 (Wine Spectator TOP100 – 2019m., aukso medalis Lietuvos vyno čempionate);
Marques de Murrieta Capellania Rioja Gran Reserva Bianco DOCa 2018 (geriausias kategorijoje vynas Lietuvos vyno čempionate);

09/18/2024

Poland, Warsaw, Emilii Plater 11, NICOLETTA: a wine bar, a cocktail joint, a lunch place, a dinner spot. No breakfast. Never lacking of stray souls and regulars. Ambient interior vibe, outdoor seatings and saluting off (still) summer night charms with a balanced whisky sour (7 eur). Look for another and enjoy conversations with chatty waiters. Nicoletta knows its trade socially and mixologically.

09/17/2024

Poland, Warsaw, Stanisława Noakowskiego 12, G-Ramen Kikuya: this is a G spot for ramen lovers. In the basement, nice smells, smiley service and gorgeous ramen, full of pleasantly melting fat, full flavours, meaty umami, enchanting broth and unexpectely. filling portion. You can sit outdoors facing passers-by on the pavement. Perhaps a G-**ot for lunchers too. Worth a walk, worth an organoleptic memory.

09/13/2024

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88 Herdade de Sāo Miguel Tinto 2022, Portugalija, 13 Eur Aromate saldžios miško uogos, kepinių prieskoniai. Skonis - bruknių, vaivorų, vidutinių taninų. Kvapas geresnis. Stotas link tvirtų, bet tekstūra gruboka. 4 mėnesiai ąžuolo. Geriausias 2024-2026 m. ...

09/12/2024

Hedonist švenčia 2 metų sukaktį. Sveikiname!! Ilgiausių metų!

08/21/2024

Poland, Dziervani, BAR PO KLONIEM: in the middle of nowhere, or in a village of fifteen households. Hostess Halina arrives after ...metal to the metal chimes. The bar is opened in July and August only, as hiking and biking end by then. Two beers (2.3-2.5 eur) on tap and podpiwek from the fridge for the drivers. Actors Piotr Jankowski and Marta Jankowska were here too. A real pearl of the summer with a drowsing cat (don't they ever do so?)

08/18/2024

Savaitės vynas. Suraskit.

91, 1000 stories Burbon-Aged Zinfandel California 2020 JAV, 25 Eur

Rūkytos mėsos, slyvų, kepinių prieskonių, gervuogių natos subtiliai švariame aromate. Skonis harmoningas, tvirtas su džiovintų tamsių uogų, saldžių prieskonių ir šiek tiek miško natų. Minkšti taninai jau. Dar solidus. Geriausias 2024-2025 m. Platina UAB Momentin Lietuva, 14.5%