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After learning all about wine in the first two series of Oz and James’s Big Wine Adventure, James finally gets to drink a pint (or two) on home soil. The improbable duo travel the length and breadth of the UK, sampling the broad range of booze on offer, on a mission to find the drink that defines Britain.
For their latest adventure, James produces the wonderful combination of a classic Rolls Royce and an appallingly kitsch Sprite caravan from the 1970s. Living in cramped, leaky conditions, the bickering reaches new heights as James discovers that Oz is as knowledgeable about beer, stout, cider, whisky and lager as he is about wine. As James tries to air his knowledge, Oz struggles to keep the upper hand.
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That's that, then...,
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This review is from: Oz and James's Drink to Britain [DVD] (DVD)
Good grief, they'll be missed.
What will we do on Tuesdays without Oz and James bickering their way around the UK in a pretty old Rolls Royce Corniche with a rusty old caravan in tow? Series 3 puts much more focus on their relationship - series 1 and 2 put more focus on them as their chemistry became apparent, but Drink to Britian is almost more about them than the plonk, and it. is. awesome. There are 8 episodes: they travel to all corners of the UK... except negligible attention is paid to Wales, so Welsh viewers may feel a little jipped. They imbibe lashings of beer, buckets of ale, barrels of whiskey, orchards of cider and tanks of English wine (did you even know we have vineyards?)... then they wobble back to the caravan where they talk drunken gubbins into the night. Oz continues to become increasingly James-like, and James carries on grumbling about wine with bubbles in it and laughing til he coughs up a lung; they meander and weave their way from pub to brewery to whiskey dungeon, all the while cementing their extraordinarily precious friendship. In the final episode, ensconced in rain slickers and blankets, they sit under the awning outside their caravan on a Dover cliff, surrounded - truly, surrounded - by upwards of a hundred bottles trying to finally decide which drink speaks for Britain. And they choose... well, you'll just need to buy the DVD to find out. Between all of that and the staggeringly beautiful shots of driving along endless, winding, tree-canopied English country lanes, this is just unmissable tv. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful sunshine-dappled heaven and they will be missed dreadfully until they return.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic,
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This review is from: Oz and James's Drink to Britain [DVD] (DVD)
I really enjoyed this dvd. Oz Clark and James May are well teamed and provide hours of information in an entertaining and enjoyable way. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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An Oz and James Winner,
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This review is from: Oz and James's Drink to Britain [DVD] (DVD)
Oz and James set off for another drinking holiday. This one is a bit different from their previous adventures (if you're familiar w/the wine holidays). This time they are in search of the drink that speaks for modern Britain.
Although an American, I can easily say this has to be the most entertaining and informative documentary I've seen for quite some time. James is articulate and poetic. Oz is informative if not a bit annoying. But that only leads to more fun between James and Oz. They visit many places all over England as well as going to Scotland, Ireland and a brief stint in Wales. The whiskey cask caretaker in Scotland is phenomenal. Their visit with him makes that whole episode a special treat. Oz and James even try their hand at making their own beers which are judged by a panel of experts. I won't say who wins, but the judges were a bit disappointing. They mumbled a bit about each of the beers, but it wasn't clear which one they were trying and what their actual thoughts were. James does manage to get a hint of Top Gear into the program as well with a radical racer running on whiskey! All in all, Oz and James were delightful, witty and totally right about their choice of the drink that speaks for modern Britain.
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