The lunch sold out almost the minute it was advertised and it was an expectant and – let’s be frank – thirsty bunch of Spectator readers that gathered ever-promptly in the boardroom last week to meet Nicolas Bureau from Glenelly Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Nick is not only the export director of Glenelly but also the grandson of the estate’s founder, the formidable and greatly celebrated May de Lencquesaing, the 94 year-old former owner of Ch. Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande in Bordeaux and one-time Decanter magazine Woman of the Year.
Guests tucked into some 2018 Glenelly Glass Collection Unoaked Chardonnay as Nick told us that in the 1990s his grandmother had instituted a Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Trophy for Best Blended Red Wine in cahoots with the International Wine and Spirit Challenge and discovered that it was nearly always won by a South African wine.
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