Friday, 30 July 2010

Pension day, I hope?

Phew - solvent again. I read recently that the collapse of the BT Pension Fund would leave pensioners with a minimum of 57% of current income. Well, as long as it hangs on until I'm of an age to be saving from my state pension, let's make hay while the sun shines. The new car should arrive in September, the new boiler should be in and working by the time we return to the UK, and I'd little compunction this morning in spending a few days' pension on some decent red wine.

Château Aiguilloux is always a rewarding visit (though usually for them more than for us in crude monetary terms). Madame Lemarié speaks with passion and humour about their wines, and they reliably make silk purses out of sows' ears through judicious combinations of ancient carignan with syrah, grenache and mourvèdre: syrah and carignan only for their best stuff. I've been buying from them at intervals for some years, and tend to leave a few of their bottles to mature here for a year or two. We opened one on Wednesday, and it was pretty damn' good. Meanwhile, we have stocked up with everyday stuff from Camplong. The rosé seems fine - better than last year's; the white is 'correcte', and we'll see how the red is when we finish the box of château newsagent.

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