The return of the Lebanese red

Yesterday was J & A's retaliation for the wine tasting lunch we organised a year and a half ago: long-promised, and worth the wait. A splendid day of good food, good drink, great company and a beautiful setting - two tables put together down the length of the seventeenth century dining room, with the huge open fireplace at one end and a view through the windows across the garden to the fields beyond.

As before, each person brought a bottle wrapped to conceal its identity, and a suggestion about where it would fit in the sequence of wines; and as before, there wasn't a single wine I didn't enjoy, from the champagne with which we launched the party to synedrian's Tokay at the end, with desperance's Barolo somewhere in between. I can't reconstruct the full list this time, but three bottles stood out for me:

( Ramsay's bottle )

( John's bottle )

( My bottle )

( And a bonus bottle from David )