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  1. Mattstrugnell

    [Music] Scandinavian music

    Jaga Jazzist, Norway. If you like prog you might like this
  2. Mattstrugnell

    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    The border goes around the edge of the vineyard. I live in the west though ;)
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    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    I've been the vineyard manager there for 22 years now. As for visiting, well anytime if the weather is good, restaurant, tours, self guided vineyard tour. (Although occasionally we have to close that if we're using machinery in the vineyard.) The restaurant in summer though is stunning. Worth...
  4. Mattstrugnell

    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    Nice! be good to hear what you think when you open them
  5. Mattstrugnell

    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    I'm at Ridgeview, Ditchling Common.
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    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    it's very rewarding and at times frustrating and difficult, like growing any crop really. I got into it by mistake (bringing this thread back to Riesling) I had a casual job on a Riesling vineyard in Clare Valley, fell in love with it, that was 26 years ago
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    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    I am, right here in Sussex 😉
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    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    Yep, I think it just took a couple of brave people to move away from (mostly) German varieties and plant classic varieties for sparkling and it went very well. When I started in viticulture 25 years ago there was about 20 hectares of Chardonnay in England; it's just shy of 3000 ha now.
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    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    Sussex, not yet. One grower I know of tried it and grubbed it up. Maybe one day, after all they said that about Chardonnay in England and now it's our most widely grown variety.
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    [Drinking] Happy Riesling Day!

    I was in Niagara in 2022 at the International Cool Climate Wine Symposium. Was surprised how the Niagara Peninsula region is such a fascinating grape growing region, so many styles, the most well known winery there probably Inniskillin, (icewine.) nova Scotia was interesting too, some great...
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    [Music] What was the first single that somebody else bought you?

    A whisky at Piries in Horsham around 1989, might've been a double, can't remember.
  12. Mattstrugnell

    [Albion] Best ever Brighton goal

    I was trying to see if there was any footage of it. What a crazy away day that was
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    [Albion] Best ever Brighton goal

    This was absolute class. George Parris v the Gas
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    [Albion] Best ever Brighton goal

    Munday, 2 nd leg League cup v Leicester.
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    [Music] Your first ever (proper) gig?

    Anthrax , Hammersmith Odeon , 1987. I dearly miss the annual Cardiacs November gigs at the Astoria; they were very special
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    [Music] Your favourite Concept Albums

    Radio Gnome Invisible 3 albums on the same story about Zero the Hero and pothead pixies in flying teapots Part 1 Flying Teapot Part 2 Angel's Egg Part 3 You (my favourite)
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    [Albion] What Albion chant (past or present) still brings a smile to your face?

    We are mates Of Colin Pates etc Port Vale are a load of s**t when they beat us and got promoted, that still makes me smile, for some reason
  18. Mattstrugnell

    [Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

    Just finished JG Ballard High Rise, grim but brilliant. Currently Catcher in the Rye and Stephen King , On Writing...and I'm writing
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    [Albion] Club cancelling ST due to non-attendance

    Why would you buy a season ticket in the first place if A; rather watch on TV B; not liking the cold when a reasonable chunk of the season is played during the winter?
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    [Albion] Positives from tonight

    Frustrating but better than our last home game against Croydon. Good to see Solly back. Gruda and O Reilly look promising. Looking forward to the trip to Villa

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