WINE & DINE WITH ANGELA LANSBURY

 Rsp 19 pounds a bottle. 100% Riesling Drinkable. 5/7 on my scale as at CLWS.

  Okanagan Valley wss named after or by Native people in the region. 100% Reisling. Not the petrol aroma I expected. So some would say not as good, but others would say better. At the recommended price of 70 pounds beyond my and many people's retail buying budget.. 

  Relaunching on the UK. A Canadian company.  It is Cider. 10% alcohol. Soon to be in Canadian airports. Try it with Shropshire blue cheese from Waitrose. A Xmas gift.. Useful Website Neige.co

  Prosecco from north east Italy. Elena of Bianca Vigna. Vigna means winery. Bianca is her eldest daughter. As you have guessed, a family business. Elena's brother is  an oenologist. You can buy the wines from Waddesdon's website  . Also Ocado could be 18 to 20 pounds depending on seasonal special offers.  

  How Spanish food has improved, like English food, over the past few decades. On Tenerife, the largest of the Canary islands, we were looking for a special place to celebrate my husband's birthday.  He found a Michelin standard restaurant. A place where the ingredients, tastes, and presentation would be a surprise, something we could not or would not do at home. (That is a challenge, because my husband is a keen cook. He downloads recipes in French and translates them. He consults three version of the same dish. He shops for unusual ingredients, ordering Jersey potatoes online to get the right texture and flavour.) The name of the restaurant is El Taller. This is Spanish for workshop, studio, repair shop, or garage, depending on the context, the surroundings.   Wine muscat. 9 couses 1 chocolate ball with sweet tomato soup centre   The open hatch into the kitchen at the back enables you to watch the chef owner, Seve Diaz, preparing the set meals. You can see the...

  The Interpretation Centres leaflet alerted me to the view and an eating place which was probably open, being part of a museum complex. Several restaurants had been closed on Sundays and Mondays. Others seemed to be closed in June. Waiting to open until high season., school holidays July and August and busy warm winter season September until January.  Our leaflet described the eating place as a cafeteria. But we had good, swift, waiter service from a friendly man who recommended a sweet verdecha grape wine which suited me. The dry wine for my husband was a blend including Malvasia grapes. The bread came with mango flavour butter. I had cod in a delicious slightly sweet red. Maybe tomato sauce. My husband,s salad looked like a flower. In the centre was a dome of white soft cheese covered in a skin of green sauce. The lettuce leaves, crisp, oval and green were arranged around the centre like petals. The spotless toilets for ladies had 3 cubicles all with wash basins plus anothe...