The Times has published the initial part of their Top 100 Winter Wines covering 25 wines under £5. Jane MacQuitty is the newspaper’s wine critic and has selected the hugely interesting Domaine de L’Olivette Blanc, 2006, as her Star Buy. It’s listed by Waitrose for £4.99 [See the note on Spittoon too].
“This unusual, organic, limited-edition (scarcely 3,000 cases) white, made predominantly from the grenache blanc grape, topped up with 20 per cent of the Rhône’s rich, spicy marsanne and ten per cent of the rare smoky bourboulenc, is a big food-suitable, concentrated, nutty, smoky star with a very fine, long, peppery, almost apricoty finish.”
The Times is running a competition to win all 100 bottles of the complete Winter Wines Top 100. Enter online.
