Simon Hoggart

Spectator Wine Club July Offer

This offer is, I think, exceptional value. Merchants occasionally overstock on first-rate wines which don’t sell off the page.

issue 22 July 2006

This offer is, I think, exceptional value. Merchants occasionally overstock on first-rate wines which don’t sell off the page.

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This offer is, I think, exceptional value. Merchants occasionally overstock on first-rate wines which don’t sell off the page. For example, if you saw, on the list published by the old and distinguished house Averys, something called Rare Spice Petit Verdot at £71 a case, you might wonder what on earth it was, and why you should pay nearly £6 a bottle for a grape you’ve never heard of from a winery you don’t know. But seeing it at £4.58, and being told that it is a delicious, round, spicy, violet-scented and beautifully balanced wine for cheery glugging or sipping with food, you might try it. Which is why Averys Richard Davis knocked 23 per cent off the price.

Richard offered such remarkable deals that for the first time we are proposing 12 wines. The offer is open for a month, so I’d get the sample case now, guzzle it, then buy many more of the ones you like best.

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