Order the wines online
I’m just back from my annual trip to Adnams of Southwold. It’s one of those events that makes the end of summer rather more tolerable. Their shop in town (they are soon expanding into other parts of booming East Anglia) is cool, elegant and stuffed with exciting wines which Adnams’ buyers have found all over the world. A tasting of a few dozen wines is followed by lunch at the Crown Hotel, which has some of the best food in the region. And I am invariably spoiled for choice; every single one of the wines they suggested this year was of the highest standard, and trimming the number to eight was almost impossible.
But we did it. Alastair Marshall and Rob Chase are offering generous discounts, usually 10 per cent, starting with the wonderful Sauvignon Blanc 2005 from Casa Rivas in the Maipo Valley. The terroir here is more or less perfect for growing vines.
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