Jonathan Ray Jonathan Ray

June Wine Club II | 25 June 2015

issue 27 June 2015

We’ve a selection of simple summer quaffing wines this week, full of bright flavours, courtesy of our old chums Tanners of Shrewsbury. I am confident that you will find the wines as amenable and easy to get on with as I did and that you will find them very keenly priced.

Indeed, there must have been something of a heatwave in Shropshire because Tanners’ private sales director, Robert Boutflower, has clearly had too much sun. With barely any recourse to thumbscrews or water-boarding, he offered generous discounts on the already remarkably modest RRPs, ensuring that every wine is well under eight quid. This means that the mixed case comes in at paltry £89, delivered. A bargain!

The 2014 La Cabane Reserve Marsanne/Viognier (1) from the Languedoc is right up my street and, I hope, up yours too. A blend of gently pressed Marsanne and Viognier, it’s crisp and refreshing with hints of peach, pear and apricot leading to a rounded, supple and satisfyingly savoury finish.

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