Dogberry
pfm Member
A plan comes together, part two.
Back in the days before going shopping was a great and scary adventure I found a Parisian wine merchant selling Perrin Ventoux 2018 (described by our patron as ‘moreish’) for a bargain £4.20ish. (Eeek!) Exercising my usual self-restraint I ordered two dozen. They were happy to defer delivery until I was next in France a month later, but asked if I was sure I would be able to come over. Of course I will, I scoffed. Who is going to stop me? A week later, French borders and shops closed, the merchant sent out all pending orders then pulled down the shutters and I received a text message to say delivery had been attempted and failed.
I managed to find the courier and asked them to deliver to a friendly neighbour, who also helped by putting a sign on the gate. A few hours later they were in his larder and have stayed there for four months.
Today I went to see him with a thank-you gift of six bottles of Rochefort 10 (he prefers beer to wine) and the exchange took place on his doorstep, due to you-know-what.
Answers to questions from yesterday - Manuel Jorel’s explanation of the different alcohol content between years is that the wine is made according to the ripeness and taste of the grapes and whatever ABV results, so be it. And the other 20% of his cuvée Champ is morrastel, apparently the same as graciano. He doesn’t mention it on website or label as it isn’t recognised by the AOC regs.
Some guys have all the luck.
The other night there I was buying some wine (not a drink and dial) I couldn't get the checkout
page to load eventually when I did I didn't realise the sale had expired and prices had gone up.Duh!