what wine in calais?

OOps sorry....
I thought this was an announcement of a new magazine.

Bob

quote:

Originally posted by roman:
It looks as though I'll be coming back from france with a pal next week in an empty luton van. Any ideas of the best/cheapest place to buy booze, and any suggestions for a good fruity red, not too heavy, and an un-oaked dry white?

hic, ta v much!

I suggest you get two bloody great sterile polypins and fill up one with red and the other with white (as they're all basically overpriced and CRAP³ for the ignorant British market (I don't mean that negatively) , mix the two and yer have a great Rose', tis as simple as Mick.

Fritz Von Is Our Mat an Alien ?

Roman

Order it in advance from Majestic or Sainsbury's (online) so that it's ready for you when you get there and you do not need to spend any longer in the purgatory that is Cite Europe and its environs than is necessary.

Stick to wines that you are familiar with in the UK. The savings are not to be made because Calais is in France and France is a wine producing country. The savings are to be made because Gordon Brown takes £1.40 (plus VAT on the lot) every time you buy a bottle and Chirac does not.

On no account buy the cheap French stuff that you have never heard of. There are reasons it's cheap, and reasons why you've never heard of it (I think this is what Fritz is getting at*). The subsequent hangover is the least of the problems. As one French winemaker said to me: "if you made shit wine in France, where would you sell it? Calais, where people don't taste it first and cannot bring it back"

The same applies to that wonky necked Chenet stuff which tastes like piss. Actually I think I would probably rather drink piss.

Some very big savings are to be made with sparkling wines and Champagnes which are genuinely less expensive in France anyway and which the UK Treasury levies even more tax on. If you have a wedding or party coming up you could make a killing.

Cheap wine is a false economy. I often get people attempting to "catch me out" by bringing along execrable crap in the hope that I'll pronounce it lovely, whereupon they could delight in telling me it "only cost" 18 francs, or one and a half euros, or three beans or whatever. Unless I am in ultra-polite mode I tell them it's rubbish.
If you went round to someone's house for dinner and they took great pleasure in boasting of how little they'd spent on the meat you probably wouldn't go back.

I've had a terrible day - does it show?

I'll open another bottle of wine I think.

Rod

*I appear to be able to interpret a Fritz-ism, what the hell is wrong with me..?

Don't forget that late 2003 was a brilliant vintage year, so make sure you've cleaned yer cyphon out well with anti-freeze, innit.


Fritz Von Clear as claret