Jonathan Ray Jonathan Ray

The Joy of our Spectator Wine Club lunches

Our final Spectator Wine Club lunch of the year was a huge success last week. There was something of a festive, end of term feel to it and although we didn’t quite have to flick the boardroom lights it was clear that nobody was going anywhere until the last dregs of the last bottle were drained.

In fact, such was the demand from readers that we were obliged to run two final Spectator Wine Club lunches in successive weeks. Martin Vander Weyer, our esteemed Business Editor, co-hosted the lunches with me and whilst I showed and discussed half a dozen wines that I had included in my revised and updated version of dear Simon Hoggart’s mini classic, Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Wine (available online and in all good bookshops, hint, hint…), Martin read from and discussed his inimitable tome, Any Other Business: Life In and Out of the City (available online &c &c…).

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