Wining-Up

The Valdarno wine co-operative has been offering a third off - and even more on various wines. The Landie has just left to pick up as much as it can carry of Dovizio (white) and local chiantis, including some of the grander ones.

There is nothing like a month of being subjected to WC1 wine prices under the collapsed pound regime to realise the priority of cellar restocking when the iron is hot (so to speak).

We used to have vineyards but the Years of Abandonment led to their collapse and then the English made a fuss about wine lakes (what is the matter with them? What could be nicer than a lakeful of wine?), and we lost the right to grow more than a hectare's worth. Honestly it's preferable to put in the effort elsewhere, like at the keyboard, and benefit from other people's expertise and low prices. The trouble with the ecology movement is it tends to denigrate the worth of the division of labour.