What would you drink if you won the lottery?
Actually, if you do win, Scotland is well placed with decent independent wine merchants to cope with your new-found largesse, which is handy, because Tescos ain't gonna do it folks.
If it was me, I’d have to have three or four decent vintages of Chateau Latour or Mouton Rothschild, I mean let’s face it, a grand a pop isn’t going to worry you is it? I’d also have a few cases of Vosne Romanee from Burgundy which is more expensive than a date night with Paris Hilton, and perhaps a case or two of Chateau Beaucastel’s excellent Chateauneuf Du Pape.
No lottery-winning cellar would be complete without a couple of cases each of Tiganello from Tuscany, a snip at around £200 a bottle for a decent vintage, and Chateau Mouser’s awesome 1983 vintage red from the Lebanon, but it’s to the New World that I’d go for those relaxing treats. You know, the ones you don’t need a three-course meal with but which could just as easily cope with one. Screaming Eagle 2000, from the Napa Valley, is a snip at £2,500 a bottle as is Henschke’s Hill of Grace at around £600.
Anyway, it’s time to wake up folks, there’s a real life to be led!
Chateaneuf Du Pape, Chateau Beaucastel 2007
Abundant red fruits on the nose with a spicy, almost leathery palate which is simply out of this world.
Corney & Barrow £529.26 per case of 6
Jasper Hill ‘Emily Paddock’ Shiraz Cabernet Franc
Dark and aromatic with soft yet complex fruits, juicy tannins and an exquisite finish.
App Brothers £76 per bottle
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