This is being written before the budget and goodness knows what the Chancellor has in store for wine lovers. Yet another bashing, no doubt, hard on the heels of the chief medical officer’s doleful pronouncement in which she slashed the recommended number of units of alcohol per week we should all be consuming.
Happily, Esme Johnstone of FromVineyardsDirect has promised that should duty go up, he’ll keep his prices firmly as they are for the duration of this offer. Not only that, even though FVD is celebrated for its cut-to-the-bone pricing, Esme has generously lopped a bit off the RRPs just for us.
The 2014 Domaine de la Chesnaie, a simple, undemanding but deliciously satisfying Sauvignon Blanc from Bernard Chereau in the Loire Valley. Chereau is best known for his first rate Muscadets, which, unusually for that appellation, bristle with character, and here he’s cannily combined freshness, fruit, complexity and balance in a wine of very modest price.
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