Hi roger, ive tried julians base and im not very impressed with it to say the least!, i did cook it twice and still wasnt happy, As curryhell has said kd was a base, a good starter base at that! cbm was a very good base and ive also tried taz'z base and that was very good too, ive played around using various bases and have now got a base sauce that suits me, there are loads of base recipes on here and all i can suggest is go through them each week, give them marks out of ten for each one you cook, if it works work around that to suit you.