Jonathan Ray Jonathan Ray

Wine Club 20 June

issue 20 June 2020

As regular followers of these offers will know, Jason Yapp and Tom Ashworth, co-proprietors of Yapp Bros (they are, in fact, step-bros), are a wicked, evil pair. Nothing delights them more than luring innocent and naïve drinks writers to their doom over endless glasses of their vino.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have succumbed to their wiles. Only the other day I had reason to recall one particular shirt-popping, liver-challenging lunch and its aftermath when I found a receipt for a hideously pricy bottle of champagne I seem to have bought in a place called Tranny Shack. Goodness knows where and what that is and with whom I shared said bottle. Bloody Jason!

The trouble is that the wines the Yapps waft under my beak are always so darn tasty. The boys might be absolute devils but, crikey, they know their wines.

Six corking French regional wines and one superlative English fizz

The 2019 Saumur Blanc (1) is a case in point.

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