If you’ve just come back from a holiday in France, you may well be basking in the glow of all things French, particularly the wine you bought for a couple of euros down at the local cooperative. And even if you haven’t, the chances are that you still regard French wine as the best, especially if that was where you started your wine-drinking journey. (Gah? Did I just write that? Everything is a journey these days. Let’s try again: “Especially if, like me, the first wines you ever drank were French.”)
Brexit certainly doesn’t seem to have stopped us, either. From Lidl, which has just launched its latest French Wine Tour, to The Wine Society, where French wine accounts for 60% of sales, French wine has a special place in our hearts.
