Wednesday Wine of the Week

Dry and Fine

We drink a lot of wine here at Maxim, being the cultured chaps we are. There is, of course, a problem with this. The better the wine we drink (and we are sent many, many fine wines to sample) the harder it is to drink poor plonk. Spoiled as we are, the days of £2 litre plastic bottle of Red Wine are long gone. Now when a wine come in we look after it. We chill it if it needs chilling. We've been known to decant a decent claret to let it breath. But above all we taste it properly. So it was we sat down with our Louis Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse 2007. Chilled to prefection, we got a hint of citrus and a slightly rich, nutty back note. We weren't eating, but it would have gone a treat with a lemon sole or a spatch-cocked chicken. Not to be confused with the equally delightful Pouilly-Fume, which is a lighter wine, this lovely drop is our Wednesday Wine of the Week. It goes for £13.99 from Sainsburys, Tesco, and many other outlets - not bad at all when out up against five pints of bog standard lager, which is what you'd expect for the same price in most pubs nowadays.