Christmas Wine Selection

[Seafront Plodder]

He died almost 15 years ago, and one of the things I inherited from him was his watch. Or to put it more accurately, his 'timepiece', or 'chronometer'. It is a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, and although this rolex has never been what could be called an 'everyday' watch, it has been lately.

My mere mortals watch is back at the manufacturers at the moment having a new battery fitted. Waterproof to 100' it has to be sent back to be re-sealed, otherwise I can never go scuba diving with it again. (Not that I ever have but the possibility is there).

I went out on my first run tonight since completing Dublin almost a month ago. I wasn't too sure how it would go after the lay-off, so rather than a circular route from home, I drove down to the seafront and plodded up and down there, completing a comfortable 5 miles. Half way through the run I realised I still had dad's watch on! So there am I, running along in the pitch black, wearing a chronometer on my wrist that would cost about the same to replace as a small hatchback! I won't make that mistake again. I don't know why I decided to post that, other than that it's just happened. I meant to ask about wine.

Off to France on a golf jolly next week, and we usually make time to stop at the hypermarket to stock up. My partner knows sod all but usually manages to spout some pretentious guff about which wine I should buy (although I usually just go by price), but as Ian had kicked this thread off I thought I'd get some honest advice here.

You can tell from my previous post that I'm no connor sewer, although I know what I like when I've tried it. Open-some-cheap-crappy-red-and-by-the-second-bottle-it's-drinkable; that's more my style.

Any suggestions for French wines? I shall probably come back with around 4 cases of assorted stuff.

Cheers

Andy.