Wine of the week: a vital and perfectly flavoured Menetou

2017 Menetou-Salon, Domaine de l’Ermitage, Laurence et Géraud de la Farge, Loire, France

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published 6 September 2019

There are few people as respected in our wine trade as Robert Rolls. I have known him for more than 30 years, but I rarely taste his wines and I am not sure why this is. Perhaps it is that he keeps himself to himself, and his modesty and the scarcity of stock of many of his wines mean that he doesn’t make too much of a fuss about his business. We bumped into each other the other day and he said he would send me a case of samples – and every wine was not only superb, but they were also all stunning value, too.