MAY WINE CLUB

Offers from Corney & Barrow are always extremely popular with Spectator readers. They may be one of the poshest of all wine merchants — two very wealthy writers whose books you have seen piled high in Terminal 4 were tasting for their own cellars the day I popped in last month. Lunch in their airy new offices is superb (we had oysters, and wild salmon that had just been thrashing about in the River Tay).

I only tell you this to make you envious. But the thing is that C&B wines are not all that expensive. In fact, many are tremendous value. And here’s what makes this deal so remarkable: C&B’s Adam Brett-Smith has taken off 15 per cent from the list price of every one. What’s more, if you buy in quantity (two cases or more if you live inside the M25; three outside), the fabled Brett-Smith Indulgence kicks in, taking off a further £6 a case.