This is not a wine for drinking...

Victoria Moore strikes again. Her wine column in the Saturday Guardian includes a section entitled "What do you recommend?". This week "I'd like to try a Chilean carmenere. Can you suggest a good one?"
( Do I believe this is a genuine enquiry? )

The third paragraph runs as follows:

Finally, for a premium carmenere, Montes Purple Angel 2003 (£19.99, Hedley Wright Wine Merchants in Bishop's Stortford, 01279 465818) is a blend of 92% carmenere with 8% petit verdot. It is tremendously glossy and lustrous - the sort of liquid you could build a house with. Personally, I find wines like this a bit much for drinking, but it will suit some tastes.

"This wine costs twenty quid a bottle, and I wouldn't drink it myself" is not my idea of a recommendation.

In the immortal words of Monty Python...
( Footnote: FAO helenraven )