There’s a wine on sale at Naked Wines called La Gare Old Vine Carignan from Domaine Jones. It’s a sumptuous Languedoc red; rich, complex and full of the sunshine of the south of France. But when you look to see where it’s from all you find is Vin de France. This is an appellation that only became legal in 2010; before that these wines had to be called Vin de Table – the lowest description possible in France. The French do love to categorise everything, especially everything that can be eaten or drunk. Continue reading Vin de France→
If I were to write “I’m a Naked Angel’ you might think I’m a columnist desperate for the reader’s attention. But the truth is that I am a Naked Angel, along with 125,000 others in the UK.
Naked Wines is an online wine seller with a difference: they take your money in advance, invest it by funding winemakers upfront, and sell you their wines for a price that, as value for money, beats the supermarkets. They are Naked because they aim for transparency (and they want to cash in on that use of the word that Jamie Oliver made fashionable) and we are Angels in the sense that is used in the entertainment world – people who fund something upfront which could not otherwise be made. Sounds great; but is it just another online wine club with a fancy way with words?
There’s a wine on sale at Naked Wines called La Gare Old Vine Carignan from Domaine Jones. It’s a sumptuous Languedoc red; rich, complex and full of the sunshine of the south of France. But when you look to see where it’s from all you find is Vin de France. This is an appellation that only became legal in 2010; before that these wines had to be called Vin de Table – the lowest description possible in France. The French do love to categorise everything, especially everything that can be eaten or drunk. Continue reading Vin de France 
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