Out and About - Winter 2021

Out & About food & drink

LAITHWAITES, THEALE

L’etrangère Aligoté 2020 £15.99 Aligoté used to be regarded as Chardonnay’s poorer cousin, but it’s the style Burgundians love to drink. With warmer temperatures, the grape ripens better, retaining intense freshness, but with rounder peach notes too.

Familia Martinez Bujanda Reserva 2015Rioja £16.99

This 6-year-old Rioja is nearly all Tempranillo,

with a splash of Garnacha and Mazuelo, matured in American oak barrels for 15 months, to add an aromatic layer of vanilla spice to the mellow summer berry notes.

Pierre Bre- cht Riesling £12.99 This is an elegant white from the Gisselbrecht family’s 350-year-old cellar, with apple notes and lime zip.

Kutjevo Grasavina 2020 £11.99 Meet Graševina – queen of white grapes in Croatia. It has fresh apple and peach fruit, underlined by a saline, citrus zip.

Antakari Carmenère Syrah 2021 £10.49

Robust with deep bramble, cassis and spice character, it’s great with lamb. Best decanted.

NAKED GRAPE, HUNGERFORD

Gav Spe Pied £15 savi the Stra with glint refr di G of s blos gree the

i di Gavi rone,

Chateau Tertre de Calon, Montage St Emilion, France £15 in December, saving 15% on the full price. A blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon; this wine is a deep ruby colour with purple hues and has a soft nose of cherry, cassis, and spice. On the palate it is well balanced with a solid tannic structure and a complementary soft mid-palate of ripe fruits such as plums and red berries, well- integrated oak ageing added structure and spice to the palate. Ideal with steak tartare, roast veal and game, along with mature cheeses.

monte, Italy in December, ng 15% on full price. w yellow light green s, this eshing Gavi avi has notes pringtime som and n apples on nose.

Flor de Penalva Reserva Dao, Portugal £10.50 in December, saving 23% on the full price.

Made from a blend of Touriga Nacional, Jaen, Alfrocheiro and Tinta Roriz. Six months oak ageing gives subtle notes of vanilla and toast which combine with the juicy blackberry and cherry fruits.

Chablis Cuvee Emeraude Organic, Domaine Gatheron, France Introductory price of £20 per bottle The aroma is fragrant with lemon and mineral notes and a hint of hazelnut. This wine also achieves amazing complexity, it is ripe and flattering with a silky mouthfeel and very long satisfying finish.

Bodegas Pocas LBV 2012, Portugal £19.99 per bottle Full-bodied Port with a firm tannic

structure and very rich fruit.

53

O&A WNTER 2021