A. Mano Aleatico Passito 2007 Posted by Andrew Chapman in New Products, 10:18am 21/05/2008.  Having arrived at the fair much later then planned on day one, I really only had time for two 'meet-the-winemaker' interviews for our Blog (hear my chat with Charlie Melton), and get the latest gossip from the Liberty stand.
But, I did manage to taste a few wines - more to do today - and I couldn't resist blogging about this one in particular as it is both from an old favourite in terms of producers from our list, and made from a grape variety I hadn't herd of until yesterday. A. Mano Aleatico Passito 2007 is a red sweet wine made form the Aleatico grape variety. Lovely dark chocolate notes, ripe plums and hints of dark berry fruits. Really interesting bitter-sweet finish that, I think would make this wine a great partner to that most difficult of food-stuff, chocolate. Nice to taste something new, and a very good reminder of one of the reasons that Italy is so interesting as a wine producing country. Namely, it has a whole host of native grape varieties to tempt and intrigue us with. More like this please... Apologies for photo quality. I didn't want to be bothered lugging a camera to London as well as an MP3 recorder and laptop, so this is taken with my iPhone. I love my iPhone, and I was happy to see it could handle the odd photo situation too. Now I'm off on a train again for the hard slog back to London Excel and day two of the fair. It's a pretty torturous experience getting to the fair - Wantage to London is the easy bit with Paddington only a 45 minute train ride away. It's the bit from Paddington to Tower Gateway, and especially the DLR train ride to London Excel that is the real killer. At least I have 'Spooks' on the iPod part of the phone to keep me company - oh, and a few more blogs to get up too! ^ Back to top
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Posted by Kelv at 8:16pm on 21/05/2008 Rumour has it that the new 3G iPhone is to be announced at the Apple WWDC 2008 (9/06 to 13/06) in San Francisco. This would make sense given the 1st gen iPhone is out of stock on Apple's site.
There's a strong possibility that the 3G iPhone's camera will be 3 megapixel, and there's going to be a way to upload video straight to YouTube. Perfect for the blog! :)
Posted by Andrew Chapman at 10:31am on 22/05/2008 iPhone: Hope that doesn't mean UK has to wait a year or something after 3G arrives in USA before it comes to us! By time it's here I'll be ready for my upgrade. Love idea of uploading straight to blog/web sites, and if it can do video too, even better :) House rules - No advertising / spamming, or profanity. All comments are moderated and will not appear immediately.
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