Fri 12 Mar 2021 09.00 EST
Regular readers of this column may recall that I was talking about wine descriptions a couple of weeks back and said I couldn’t understand why the word “lush” wasn’t used more often. Admittedly, it wouldn’t be part of your average Master of Wine’s lexicon, but if someone tells me a wine is lush, I want to try it. And not just because I live in Bristol, where “gert lush” is the ultimate term of approbation.
Anyway, having recently tasted a lot of whites I regarded as lush, I thought it might be an appropriate topic to return to for Mother’s Day. Not that I am suggesting for a second that your mother is a lush, even if she does have a glass every night – I wouldn’t blame her, given the unremitting tedium of the past 12 months.
The best white wines to buy for Christmas 2020
From bargain bottles to something special for the big day, these are the bottles to buy for your Christmas festivities Tis the season.
A couple of months ago I was talking to a wine merchant about its Christmas wine hampers. “You might want to rename the party one…” I suggested.
One of the many tricky things about this year has been the inability to plan, but it’s clear parties are off the agenda.
And on the agenda? Treating ourselves to a few good bottles, perhaps. Because even if we don’t yet know where we’ll be for Christmas or who we’ll be spending it with, we do know that no one is going to be trying to quench the thirst of the 5,000 from the rapidly depleting contents of their kitchen fridge.
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