In praise of Vouvray and new potatoes

New recruits to purple pages may not be aware of the ghost of coincidence that regularly stalks members’ forum (and its precursor your turn, archived in all its glory here). But it is quite extraordinary how often purple pagers refer to wines or other things that I just happen to have come across or be thinking about. One very recent instance if this comes with this new thread in which Nic Bernard asks what to drink with his delicious Huet, Le Mont 1998 Vouvray Sec.

 

Before reading this, I was on the point of writing about various...