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Wine Tasting Adventure

2020 Crozes-Hermitage 'Certitude', Francois Villard, Rhone Valley, France

£23.99 GBP
£23.99 GBP
Drinking this Crozes-Hermitage reminded me that wine is made from grapes. Quite a “Eureka!” moment, I’m sure you would agree, but in the daily ebb and flow of the wine trade, you tend to forget that wine is made from something that has a primary purpose over and above that of being fermented for the pleasure of human beings. In nature, fruit is a lure. It’s made to attract birds and insects for the vital business of pollination. So, it needs to look, smell and taste good. Birds don’t read reviews or choose grapes with gold medals, they don’t do vertical tastings or keep cellar plans, they just want to eat tasty, ripe fruit and when I tried this wine, made from the Syrah grape, all of the extraneous noise that surrounds wine just fell away and I imagined how delicious the grapes on the vine must have been to produce such a heaven-scented, fabulously delicious wine, redolent of violets, black cherry, cassis, black pepper and loose tea. 12.5% alc. Drink now-2030.