Bottle Of The Week

Here's the fantasy. You're having friends over for a casual weekend lunch - salads, cold meats, strawberries and cream - and …

Here's the fantasy. You're having friends over for a casual weekend lunch - salads, cold meats, strawberries and cream - and the sun is beating down so obligingly from a pure blue sky that you've laid a table in the garden.

What to drink? Gran Feudo Rosado, Navarra, 1998 (outlets above, usually £6.99), a wine that is a runaway success in Spain for the quality-oriented old family bodega of Julian Chivite. Fragrantly fruity and juicily appetising, it's a winner at this price - and should make your lunch one, too.

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