Wine with Leslie: Buy as much of this €10 French wine as you can
O'Brien's' sale also continues with reductions across the range and both Aldi and Lidl have some new wines in store since last week.
This week I want to show a bit of love to the French wine industry after one of its toughest years in recent decades. Of course, 2020 was not the easiest of years either with so many restaurants around the world shuttered, but now it seems the 2021 harvest is likely to be down by 30%, with some producers comparing 2021 to the disastrous 1977 vintage.
Frosts in April destroyed the young buds in many vineyards, most notably in the Rhône, Burgundy, Loire, Bordeaux and Champagne. But thankfully the dire predictions last April were a little exaggerated.
