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December Wine Club

Friday, 7th December 2007

This is our positively final offer for Christmas, and it’s terrific. Thanks to Lay & Wheeler we have half a dozen French classics, all of which would be very welcome on the Yuletide dinner table, or at a memorable party. What’s more, every one is generously discounted. They are not cheap wines, but they are tremendous value.

Take the magnificent 1966 Lay & Wheeler 150th Anniversary Cuvée Champagne (1). It’s made by the people at Duval-Leroy, and at £27, its list price, it is a good buy. For £22 (a £60 discount per case) it’s incredible. You can easily pay that for a non-vintage champagne from one of those companies that seem to spend more on advertising than on wine-making. This is a rich, complex champagne, offering all those wonderful biscuity, toasty, vanilla, and fresh peach flavours. It’s a wine that seems to caress the tongue (sorry, getting carried away here). They say that the test of a great champagne is that it tastes just as good when it’s gone flat; I had meant to try this out, but I couldn’t because three of us just glugged the whole lot with silly smiles on our faces. Completely delicious.

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