Staying in…

Sometimes we go to our pub, the Dolphin on a Wednesday night, but when I mentioned it we decided to go tomorrow night instead; so with our dinner of delicious Powters sausages we had a little glass of wine… a little glass of Yellowtail Shiraz. it reminded me of how I first came across Yellowtail, flying back from Ireland, and I looked back at a post I wrote at the time, and here it is:

I was flying back from Belfast with my daughter and drifting round the duty-free shop wondering whether to buy some whiskey for my husband when I was approached a gentleman who worked there asking if I would like a free taster… What me? Taste whiskey? Was he joking? Yes pleases!!!

He poured us a generous wee dram of The Irishman, and one for my daughter as well… now she doesn’t like whiskey but she obediently sipped then handed it to me… well, it was very nice…

I thought I might buy a bottle as an anniversary present so the kind gentleman suggested I try the others in the range; they were too expensive for me but he said if I was never going to buy a bottle of the expensive one (£70) then I could at least have a free try from him… so I had another wee dram, and my daughter’s wee dram too.

Did I like Yellowtail wine? No matter that I wasn’t going to buy any right now, maybe I’d like to try some Shiraz Cabernet? Oh smooooooooth!!! Mmmmmm!

…and maybe some Merlot? Oh I like it!!! Now, I had already decided to buy a cheaper and a more expensive Irishman whiskey and we couldn’t really manage more bottles so I didn’t buy any more wine… but the kind gentleman gave me several product ‘souvenirs’ for Yellowtail.

I think he must have had a quiet day because he then offered samples of a vodka, the name of which I don’t now remember  hardly surprising after Irishman, Irishman, Yellowtail, Yellowtail, but that was very nice too and took me back to earlier days when vodka was my drink.

Since that experience I have bought many Yellowtails of different variety and they really are lovely, I really recommend them, whatever your taste in wine. My present favourite, as an aperitif…