Simon Hoggart

August Wine Club

August is a slow month for wine sales, which no doubt is why Mark Cronshaw of The Wine Company in Colchester has slashed so many prices in this offer. These six wines are all delectable. One is reduced by a remarkable £48 a case. (Often this happens because a wine is absolutely first-rate but largely unknown, with the result that it doesn’t sell off the page, so to speak. So it is heavily reduced, and the people who snap up the bargain are thrilled by their luck.)

Three of my choices this week are from France, two from South Africa, and one from Chile. Two are what I think of as party wines: moderately priced bottles which will still leave your friends delighted at your generosity and good taste.

We start with a Sauvignon de Touraine 2011 (1), a party-pleaser from the Domaine Bellevue.

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