Dan Connolly started Adamas Wines with Manoel Bouchet to get Burgundian wines drunk by people who would normally shy away from the complicated labels that normally cover the bottles. After spending time working for Louis Latour, Bibendum and Quinta do Noval port, he started Adamas based in Burgundy, and in his home of... errr... Fife, Scotland!I've looked at his wines before, and liked them, so here we are more interested in the man and what his own wine likes and dislikes are. I asked him six questions.
What would you do if you weren't in the wine trade?
Park Ranger. I love the countryside and the fresh air.
What is the best wine that you have ever tried, and what is the worst?
The best was 1963 Quinta do Noval Nacional (Breathtaking), and the worst was my home made Redcurrant wine 2008 vintage (filthy!). First rule of wine making: always use grapes.
Aside from your own, what is your favourite producer?
Chapoutier Rhone Valley
Who has been most inspirational to you?
Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker, both of whom are going straight to heaven.
Any regrets?
...I've had a few...actually no I haven't.
Name three people, real or fictional, living or dead, that would be guests at your dream dinner party and what would you be drinking?
1. Obviously Morrissey to ask him how he managed to come up with the lines "...with loves and hates and passions just like mine, they were born and then they lived and then they died. Seems so unfair." Genius.
2. Dr Beeching and all his successors so I can ask them why they think that closing down the railways and covering the country in Tarmac so that we can all sit in ever larger traffic jams, is a sensible transport policy.
3. Alex Salmond so that I can ask him if he was drunk when he decided to pull down the newly erected tool booths on the forth road bridge and scrap the toll and also try to get an explanation as to why the state employs 51% of the working population, what they do all day and why I have to pay for their pensions.
Morrissey and I will kick off the evening with a pint of Exmoor Gold Real Ale, followed by a couple of glasses of 1990 Montrachet Grand Cru Domaine Thenard with the starter. For the main course we would share a magnum of 1966 Romanee St Vivante Domaine Latour.
The politicians would have Buckfast!
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