Spectator readers are famous for being richer than most, which is why the magazine carries ads for cashmere hip flasks and handbags made from the toenails of hand-reared angora rabbits. Nonetheless, we all like a bargain, and I do my best to seek these out. Sometimes merchants will have too much of a wine which they bought because it was absolutely delicious but, lacking a famous name, didn’t sell as well as it deserved. So they offer it to us, sometimes at ludicrously low prices. We have two very good examples here from the famous old house of El Vino in Fleet Street, known as ‘Pomeroys’ to Rumpole fans.
On the other hand, sometimes a wine is enormously popular, and in that case they don’t offer a discount, as with our two ‘house’ wines. The white Choisi de Boyier (1) is from the Côte d’Or, and though I’m not supposed to say this, it is overproduction of Burgundy.
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