The past few weeks have been fraught with the underlying virus that will not leave. So, having read the wise words of Docteur Maury, a Frenchman who believed wine was a cure for everything, I decided to act.
In Tesco's I was somewhat surprised to discover almost no French wines available. Plenty from Chile, Spain, and Australia, yet French wine appeared to have been removed from the shelves. Is it possible the wine lover has lost interest in French vintages, or could it be an English response to French superiority in all things? The English have such a poor grasp of their history I suspect antagonism may have a place in this. It could of course merely be the price!
I searched the shelves, much smaller than Sainsburys collection I note, but eventually found one bottle, unpriced, standing almost alone and forgotten at the very end of the shelf. It was French so it went into the basket.
Docteur Maury suggests 'a good Rhone' for colds and flu, so hopefully this will have an effect. On drinking the stuff however, I realised why it stood alone! This is not 'a good Rhone,' but a half price one. £9:50 reduced to £4:75, not great wine but a better price.
This week I have slept a lot, eaten lots of strawberries, raisins, figs, dates, oranges, and the like, and eaten differently, the stew was ghastly, the soup similar, but the bread and cheese worked well. Has the wine made a difference? I may go back for another, or two, just to see for sure...
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