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A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 5:40:32 AM

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Meeting PDM tonight in London for some food and no doubt buckets of wine.

For those London-based CTers check out this place where we are going.....I've drank there before and the wine list is utterly superb and the prices are not mind boggling either (well, not for London anyway)

http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/02/28/319229/dehesa-london-the-list.html

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 6:00:07 AM

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Meeting PDM tonight in London for some food and no doubt buckets of wine.

For those London-based CTers check out this place where we are going.....I've drank there before and the wine list is utterly superb and the prices are not mind boggling either (well, not for London anyway)

http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/02/28/319229/dehesa-london-the-list.html

u mean pbm? Don't want you hooking up with the wrong person.

Have fun and go for the 1964 Gaja, Barbaresco!!!

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 6:16:43 AM

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Ah, yes, thats the chap.

I'm hoping he is paying for Gaja.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 6:33:31 AM

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Ah, yes, thats the chap.

I'm hoping he is paying for Gaja.

Suddenly I may have a conflict.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 6:36:22 AM

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I'll get customs to stop you at the airport.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 6:49:58 AM

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A wine with my name on it!

2005 Weingut Niklas, Lagrein, Alto Adige, Italy, £30

That's a first for me, now where can I find a bottle of that?! Would be fun to have in the cellar

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 8:08:29 AM

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Paul - Sounds good but now you're meeting another man you met on the internet tongues really will be wagging!

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 8:26:58 AM

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Now I definitely have a conflict.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/17/2008 8:33:58 AM

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PBM - Had a great night with Paul (he was the perfect gent ;-)) but we both found it 'challenging' to tell colleagues we were out for the night with a man we had met on the internet -which is what you're doing. Try it - tell someone what you're doing tonight, it's pretty good sport once you've done the first one and have just come from dinner with friends where the origins of my friendship with Paul came up again and it caused a smirk and a laugh.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/18/2008 2:03:29 AM

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The morning after the night before!!! I have a hangover. I lost my jacket and wallet on the train going home as well.

pbm - what were we thinking when we ordered that last bottle?

By the way, we did have the Gaja - although not the 1961. We had a 1998 Gaja Barberesco - very very very nice.

Superb wine list as well - there was about 60 wines on the list and all of them (because it seems as though we drank all of them) were very good.

And yes, meeting men I met on the internet is a topic even my wife is asking me about now.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/18/2008 4:14:08 AM

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Paul really chose a great place. I'd highly recommend it. In addition to the impressive and reasonably priced wine list, the food and service were excellent. It was a lot of fun.

The last time I saw Paul he was switching trains in the Paddington station and had his jacket so I can only assume he had further adventures without me.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/18/2008 7:42:19 AM

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For those that are interested, here is the full wine list from the restaurant.

http://www.dehesa.co.uk/Resources/Documents/Dehesa%20Website%20Drinks%20Menu%20Aug%2008.pdf

We had the Gaja 98, which was utterly gorgeous - although needs time in the decanter to open up.

Also had the Vega Infante, which was a superb, rich opulent, full bodied wine for a cheap price. Highly recommended.

Had a glass of the Joven wine - which was not so good. A bit woody and austere.

Finally (and this was the bottle that finished me off) had a bottle of the Pittacum (I think). This was oozing with dark fruits and vanilla and other stuff that I was too smashed to remember.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/18/2008 9:40:59 AM

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Sounds like my kind of Wednesday night!

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/18/2008 9:51:31 AM

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We Londoners are basically alcoholics. It is the only way to survive here without going mad.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/18/2008 10:14:02 AM

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I have a good friend who lives there. Anytime we get together I have to warm up my liver for two weeks prior in order to attempt to keep up with him.

And he's an Aussie, so I think that increases his tolerance exponentially.

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RE: A London night out with PDM - check out this place. - 9/19/2008 1:43:20 PM

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For those that are interested, here is the full wine list from the restaurant.

http://www.dehesa.co.uk/Resources/Documents/Dehesa%20Website%20Drinks%20Menu%20Aug%2008.pdf

We had the Gaja 98, which was utterly gorgeous - although needs time in the decanter to open up.

Also had the Vega Infante, which was a superb, rich opulent, full bodied wine for a cheap price. Highly recommended.

Had a glass of the Joven wine - which was not so good. A bit woody and austere.

Finally (and this was the bottle that finished me off) had a bottle of the Pittacum (I think). This was oozing with dark fruits and vanilla and other stuff that I was too smashed to remember.

Paul's notes are right on the mark. He had the Vega Infante open when I got there and it was really a nice bottle. Find some and try it. I'm glad we had the Gaja early -- it was the second bottle -- we actually set it aside after a glass or two to let it open up. (We also moved it off the relatively small table we were sitting at because we were afraid we were going to knock it over.) I'd say it would last several more years. It really had a vibrant color to it and was fruity and crisp. The Joven was a bad mutually agreed upon choice in the middle of the Gaja -- probably a good indicator that our judgement was going south at that point. Of course, we definitely did not need that last bottle but since neither of us was driving we didn't really even debate it. It was the Pittacum and along with the vanilla it had some smoke and oak. It wasn't anything novel but it was a good bottle of wine that held up surprisingly well given its place in the line-up.

Many thanks to Paul for really going through an extraordinary effort to get there and choosing an excellent venue. The wine, food, and scenery were great.

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