I don’t know about you but lockdown is slightly losing its lustre Chez Ray. Joke over, thanks, let’s just get back to normality, whatever the new normality might be.
In the meantime, though, as the drear days of social distancing and isolation turn to weeks and the weeks to months, it’s strange what delight one finds in tiny — often guilty — pleasures. You know, like doing jigsaws for the first time in 50 years, listening to the complete Gilbert and Sullivan, re-reading Dick Francis and Dorothy L. Sayers, cataloguing my heavy metal LPs and scoffing garlic by the bag-load without fear of making folk faint on the Tube. Oh and not shaving. What utter bliss that is!
And, goodness, who knew that doing my nightly exercise by walking through town in the middle of the road for an hour could be such a childish treat?
The world’s finest rosés complete with a chance to nab a free magnum
Of course, the greatest delight is that first glass of vino in the evening. Is it very bad to crave it quite so much? And since spring is in its pomp, what I crave most is rosé. What excellent timing, then, for this very competitive offer of four cracking wines from Le Roi de Rosé himself, Sacha Lichine, via our mates at FromVineyardsDirect.
It has always been Sacha’s sole aim (and that of his late partner, Patrick Léon, former head winemaker at Ch. Mouton-Rothschild) to make the finest rosés in the world at his Ch. d’Esclans estate in Provence. Many critics would say he has succeeded.
2019 The Palm (1) is the estate’s entry level wine, a finely judged blend of Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah and Carignan, complete with easy-access screwcap and garish capsule and label, apparently inspired by the Nevada brothel school of design.
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