Christmas Wine Selection

[El Gordo]

Fantastic first sentence, SP. As early as the first full-stop, I knew I'd have to reply. I'm not being sarcastic, and I give full respect to the memory of your Dad.

Well done too on the first run. I'm in a shocking situation, where I did my Brighton race on Sunday, but seem to have lost all interest in both running and writing about it.

As for more interesting things eg suggestions for French wine... Hmm, well, I can only air some very personal prejudices, but here goes:

The greatest wines I've ever drunk have been from Bordeaux and Burgundy but these tend to be way too expensive to bother with.

In a nutshell, I LOVE Rhone wines and good Southern French like Fitou and decent single domain wines from Roussillon and Corbieres and Provence. If you can find any of these southern wines from 1998, snap them up.

Other personal favourites include decent single-village Beaujolais like Fleurie, Morgon, St Amour, Julienas etc. These are lighter in style, and not so 'serious', but still quite lovely.

Depends really on what you like.

Where's Richard? This is my Master of Wine mate who owes me a favour.....

He'll be along soon [gulp], and can help you further, SP.

Regards,

Andy