Wine Club 15 June

We were quite the merry band. Forty or so Spectator readers — many of them veterans of our fabled Spectator Winemaker Lunches and graduates of our equally celebrated Spectator Wine School — joined me for a bespoke wine tasting at Majestic’s St. John’s Wood store last week. One impressively hardy soul polished his drinking boots especially well and joined us for the Seresin Estate Winemaker Lunch the following day too. Excellent work!

We tasted almost 50 wines, all Spanish, and our six favourites are herewith offered to fellow readers at generously discounted prices. All wines were tasted blind. That’s to say the bottles were completely covered to obscure any hint of provenance and each wine was marked entirely on merit, not on how jolly the label was nor how fine the vintage was deemed to be. There were 16 whites, one rosé and 28 reds, along with some very tasty Spanish-themed canapés.