Lunch with the Evanses

Last Monday I told you about a very special lunch I enjoyed not long before leaving London for summer in the Languedoc. Just two days before our departure I enjoyed another lunch just as much, even if only one wine, rather than a dozen, was drunk.

It was a very special wine and, most importantly, very special company. The picture here shows Trish, widow of the man who turned the Australians on to fine wine, Len Evans, with the bottle we enjoyed. She was on an extremely rare trip to the UK from her home in Sydney, over for...