"Gooseberries have a complexity of flavour that other fruits lack.
You will taste the complexity of flavour from the long fermentation process – think craft beer versus cheap beer.
It can't be about complexity of flavour and succulence – or have I been missing something all these years?
Few other alcoholic drinks can give you the complexity of flavour that a 3.5 per cent cask ale offers.
Sherry – the real stuff from Spain, that is – is loaded with the same complexity of flavour as any high-quality brown spirit, with about half the ABV.
However, I prefer to use honey in smaller quantities than the sugar normally called for – it has a greater complexity of flavour and is less cloyingly sweet.
Some red table wines appreciate in quality, developing less astringency and colour, and a greater complexity of flavour with aging in oak cooperage of up to 500-gallon size for two to three years.
But imagine how impressive you'll sound when you can not only stammer out "Un verre de vin, s'il vous plaît", but are also capable of ordering a fine Bordeaux, commenting on its complexity of flavour and describing the time you visited the very vineyard where it was created.
Digging around online, I happen upon a recipe for buns using what is known as a "pre-ferment" – a pre-prepared yeast "starter" which is thought to give the finished bread "greater complexities of flavour" as Wikipedia has it.
Unfashionable as these sometimes are today, Rutherglen's muscats and tokays remain famous for the depth and complexity of their flavours, and their oddity has shielded Rutherglen's producers from the troubles of over-production and glut affecting the rest of the Australian wine industry.In one important respect, though, Rutherglen shares the industry's problems.
But the depth and complexity of the flavour-texture – with this ham, the two blend into each other – are extraordinary.
