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BREAKING: Benefits of Brexit finally begin to trickle through after Lithuania agrees to buy two boxes of mackerel.

Couple of youthful Gonons tonight, starting with the 2018 “Les Oliviers”-Apricot and flan nose, creamy and glycerol laden palate, proper Rhône richness here. More of a mini Hermitage in this vintage but such balance and class as ever. Drink Rhone @vinetrail

Finally found a tangible benefit to Brexit: our quota for Dover Sole is going up from 19.2% to 20% in five years time. Plus a lot more than that for species we don’t actually catch. Dan Saladino The Food Programme What are all these fishermen whinging about? James O'Brien

Agree..... it was great. Listen tomorrow or BBC Sounds or, as they say, wherever you get your #podcasts Dan Saladino The Food Programme MitchTonks Bournes Fishmongers

Just opened this for our loin of pork later. The 1990 of this was a favourite for many years, this still has proper Sangiovese grip with gorgeous, floral, cherry laced fruit. Should be ace in a couple of hours. Mark Priestley

hats on – it’s raining terroir, a cluster of STGT Soil to Glass Transfer 2019s from Gigondas, a vintage with admirable freshness, racy tones, real menthol-garrigue come hither. They’re still 35%-60% cheaper than Ch du Pape, reasonable, therefore #southernrhone #gigondas

Friday night treat with this Agrapart L’Avizoise 2010- toasted hazelnut with mushroom hints. Concentration and delicacy, pure Chardonnay, a beautiful aperitif. @vinetrail

Gonon 2009 with Ribeyes. Granite and loganberries on the nose. Cool raspberry elements roll along with that spine of granite in the palate. Sumptuous but at 13% in 09, so cool and digeste. Grand vin indeed. @vinetrail Drink Rhone

Sunday treats- finishing up a bottle of Boxler’s superb Gewurtztraminer Réserve 2017 The Wine Society then a young but delicious Cornas Renaissance Clape 2016 ( thank you Bianca Ford) Vrai Cornas steel with such cool brooding fruit. Fab with the 6 hour shoulder. Roasties 9/10 too.

Superb 20 year old Clos des Papes with some oxtail tonight. Elegant, fully resolved with herbal and soil elements. Cool fruit lingers with a lace like structure. Just 14% too. Drink Rhone

Last of a case of 2001 Gripa Le Berceau Saint-Joseph. Beautiful colour, haunting nose of cedar, dark fruit and its granitic soil. So cool(12.5%), intensely savoury and velvety. Long and very fine indeed. @vinetrail Drink Rhone

Perfect combo last night- simple Moules from Jenkins and Son Fish and Game with a sensational Loir (correct spelling!) Chenin 2016 from Domaine de Bellivière via @Vinetrail - pear skin and lemon zest with searing acidity from 80yo Bio vines with extraordinarily minimal intervention.

Another corker tonight- Selvapiana Vigneto Bucerchiale 1990 with Spaghetti Carbonara- Dusty church pews with still a glint or two of a damson or sloe. Graceful old age but still with superb acidity holding everything together. Fabulous for a 30yo Chianti.

Basic village Chablis but great producer and vintage. Steely, wet pebbles and lemon pith.

Intense raspberry and granite on the nose, cool fruited,savoury with poise and grip. Bessard/Méal Hermitage from the maestro. @vinetrail

I’d swear this was a cool vintage Graves if served blind- lifted, reds fruits and black currant leaf with gravelly terroir. Supreme elegance for a 2015 Saumur-Champigny from Joseph Vigneron’s top vineyard-Great name! @vinetrail

Classic, maturing Pomerol with a rack of lamb tonight. Glossy, deep colour with some bricking. Sensational nose of tobacco, smoke and dark plummy fruit. Silky continuation on the palate, some grip and freshness but à point, for sure.

One of my desert island combos. Chicken and morels with a Gonon St Joseph “Les Oliviers”. 2014 tonight- beautiful, mature apricot kernel and classic flan notes, more linear freshness than the 2018 recently drank. Perfect balance- Grand Vin for me. @vinetrail Drink Rhone

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