Are we there yet? No, not a child on a long drive (remember those?) but me every day of last week as I struggled to stay strong towards the closing stages of Dry January.
Yes – finally we are there: the sunlit uplands of 1 February. Having spent the best part of a month dry, it’s fair to say I have done a good amount of reflection on the subject of alcohol and abstention thereof. No, not about how awful I’ve realised drinking is and how I now plan to stop drinking forever – none of that nonsense. I was thinking more about how it’s made me realise once again quite how much I love wine.
Now that January is over, here are my best wine and 2021 telly pairings to make the rest of lockdown fly by:
The Serpent
The popular crime mini series set on the Hippie Trail demands an ostentatious tropical fruit-noted new world Sauvignon Blanc – why not the original and best known of the style, Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc, 2019, (Sainsbury’s £23.00)?
Bridgerton
Something traditional but with a twist for modern times …how about a South African Klein Constantia, once a sweetie loved by Napoleon, now reinvented for the modern palate as drier crowd pleasers: Klein Constantia Sauvignon Blanc 2019, (Majestic from £12.
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