French Wine

Well we're back home but just for 24 hours! We're off camping with some biking friends tomorrow for the weekend. If you're lucky one of us will post a report next week!

Anyway, got home this afternoon and cooked a simple piperade ( courtesy of Keith Floyd's "Floyd on France" p83- quick simple tasty meal well worth trying & thanks to Madame Mimi!) The cooking and eating was accompanied by some lovely French wine particularly the Cabernet d'Anjou rose above. We're fortunate that our friends James and Sara visited us last week from their home in France and brought us a case and a half of mixed French wines. The price averaged out at £3.00 a bottle. I wish they'd visit every month. Good French plonk is just so nice, much lighter than the New World stuff filling supermarket shelves here. I'm no wine buff, I just guzzle down what I enjoy. The problem is that French wine is so expensive! Why? You would think that with shipping costs antipodean or Californian wines would be dearer but no, you can by 3 bottles of those for a tenner but French wine is£5 or £6. That's really frustrating when you can see it stacked high and cheap on supermarket shelves when you're in France. if I lived closer to Dover I'd be tempted by the booze cruises but it's not really economical from Wales. Anyway, enough moaning, we have a few bottles stashed away that will last us for a little while and then we'll be on hols sampling Hungarian and Czech stuff! perhaps we'll be on the beer by then!

Elvie