It’s difficult to make a case against buying wine from Majestic, especially when you can source wines like this 2004 Reserva from only £12.99.
Cune (a.k.a. CVNE) Rioja is a pretty good marque to look out for, should you decide to scour this historic wine region of northern Spain. But the food match I’m going to recommend might surprise you.
When I am in a really good mood, my Opus Dei style self-flagellation is a mooch through the wine aisle at Sainsbury’s. Brings me back down to depression with a bump. Yard after yard of unremitting boredom. Branded wines at prices that, once you have removed duty, VAT and cost of shipping, indicate an investment of around $0.20 in the actual wine. It’s a bit like reading a John Major biography. Grey, grey, and thrice grey. Where is the Edwina Currie moment? Could this Yali “Gran Reserva” Carmenere (sic) be the money shot? At £9.99 for a Sainsbury wine, it better explain itself.
I am self-flagellating tonight, berating myself for being a man. Claret coloured sores are starting to appear on my otherwise pale and tender back. And I’ve never even heard of Opus Dei. And I am not in the mood to tell you about my 6 ft leather bull whip – maybe another day.
I’ve been waiting a few weeks for the right moment to drink a bottle of Gaston Hochar’s finest. Tonight, I finally reached into the fridge and yanked the cork. But, being a man, I didn’t read the instructions before chugging a good glassful.
Stumble It!