FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN

Dave’s been having a Marlene Dietrich moment this week and  ‘Falling In Love Again’ …. but, fortunately for me,  it’s with a wine !

 

Always a big Torres fan, he's rediscovered the many and varied delights of their Chilean Santa Digna Rosé, a mainstay of our wine list.

  

Deep red in colour, packed full of strawberry flavours and with a hint of sweetness, Santa Digna is the closest thing you’ll get to a red wine in a rosé  - and drinking it again started us thinking about chilled, light red wines for the summer should it return. This, inevitably, led to our giving a few of them a   ‘road test’   at home ..... purely in the interest of research !

The result of this marathon research project is that Dave’s  going to have a look through Smiths’ wine list to see which of our own red wines we could keep chilled during the summer. I'll have the details to post here in a few days, so have a look and maybe give one of them a go next time you’re in Smiths.  As a white wine drinker who rarely touches red these days, I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve enjoyed them and I'm passing the secret on !

In the meantime, if you want to try chilled reds at home, you could do far worse than getting yourselves a bottle of Aldi’s Fleurie….part of their ‘Exquisite’ range.  At around £6.99, it’s not one of their cheapest wines – but it’s well worth the money.

 “his lips drink water
  but his heart drinks wine”
e.e.cummings