Wine Club: incredibly tasty, ridiculously good value wines from Domaine du Grand Mayne

So, I finally got the plague. No, not monkeypox, the other one – Covid. I blame that Tuscan wedding. Not the hot’n’sweaty event itself, nor the jam-packed flights there and back; no, I blame the three subsequent days on the wagon, strictly enforced by Mrs Ray to prove that we’re not complete and utter lushes and can, on occasion, do without.

Well, as any fule kno, Muscadet keeps the doctor away and water won’t. Thus it is that I’m still testing positive after 14 days. Sigh. But I’m back on the vino now and feel much better for it, thank you, the associated vitamins and antioxidants putting a distinct spring in my step.

The first wines to aid my recovery were these little gems from Domaine du Grand Mayne in the Côtes de Duras, sampled – thanks to Zoom – in the company of wine-maker Mathieu Crosnier.