Wine Club 05 June

After a monumental, liver-challenging but heart-lifting and even tear-inducing 12-hour lunch with Fuzzy, Nigel and co, we’re back with a bang. We drank, we danced and we hiccoughed our happy way home as if Covid and the long, spirit-sapping lockdowns had never happened.

And so, jabbed and double-jabbed, drinks in hand, here we are strolling on the sunlit foothills of Mount Hope. Everything is possible and normality is just around the corner. Hurrah! Indeed, let me present to you my reworking of that beloved acronym SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fabulously Uplifting.

The sun is out, the birds are singing and it’s hard, even for a grumpy pessimist/realist like me, not to feel happy and excited. And even if longed-for trips abroad are off the agenda, we can still travel vicariously. Last time we were in Italy and this week we’re heading to Spain with a glorious, generously discounted selection of wines from Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Rías Baixas, courtesy of Armit Wines and mighty La Rioja Alta.