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This 'ere bottle of white was brought for one reason only; it wasn't because the wine was produced in 'region of the moment' Sicily, nor was it due to the 'interesting blend' of Catarratto and Viognier. T'was the label, Guv'nor. I admit to being a sucker for a chic label. Here we have colour and trendy graphics luring me, the punter, to hand over near £11 to the Oddbins counter-man for a bottle of Donna Fugata Polena 2008. Being from Sicily is a plus point but one negated by that £10.99 price point. After tasting that price becomes an issue - it's too high. A decent wine mind - green tinged colour, citrus and gravel nose, mineral texture, tropical fruit edge with a citric burst on the finish, a delicate edge - just more impressive at a £6.99/£7.99 price point. That's the equivalent of two broad-sheet Sunday's or two tubs of locally grown gooseberries form my local produce shop. All relative I guess. You have to pay for the trendy labelling (and matching yellow plastic cork) somew

That is, if it has a future and isn't subsumed by the joys of the blog world, social... Celebrating natural wine - and writing Celebrating natural wine - and writing saignee.wordpress.com saignee.wordpress.com --> As with the rest of journalism, there is endless teeth-gnashing about the future of wine writing.