Hello and welcome to my blog about decent wine.
Just to put this 'decent wine' thing into perspective, what I mean by decent wine is essentially the very best that I can afford on a fairly limited budget.
Like many people in 2009 I am juggling a collection of consumer debts and rising fuel and accommodation costs with trying to find some solace in the occasional bottle of interesting and memorable wine.
As I, and I suspect many of you, are not in the position of being able to open a bottle of Chateau Latour '49 every evening after a hard day at the office I wanted to find a way of telling people about the thrifty good wines I find on my travels.
I live near Clitheroe in Lancashire, home to Byrne's Wine Shop which is a mecca for all serious wine drinkers with a cellar load of thoroughly decent Clarent, Burgundys and Reislings from France as well as case loads of brave new stuff from the US, Argentina, Chile, Aussie and South Africa.
Apart from Byrne's in Clitheroe I am also 5 miles from my nearest Aldi which is fast becoming a very shrewd place to find some seriously decent Clarets at seriously indecent prices.
Anyway, I'm just about to open my very first bottle exclusively for this blog and will tell you how I go on.
Cheers
Tom
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