A particular favourite of mine is the Hawksmoor steak restaurant in Spitalfields, near Liverpool Street Station.
It's the original of a fast expanding chain of five, and does excellent steaks.
Importantly, the folks who run it offer £5 corkage on a Monday evening.
And so I've spent a fair few Mondays enjoying great food and wine, at a much lower cost than usual, thanks to them.
Last night, for the first Monday night in a while, we sampled Beau-Site 2005, a Chateau I must admit I had not heard of.
As you can see from Wine-Searcher.com prices vary. We paid about £35 for our bottle, which is about the top end of what it's worth, I'd say.
If you sample some, it needs serious decanting. We had it open for half an hour but on first taste it was bitter and overly mineral. I almost declared it undrinkable. After another thirty minutes or so it opened up beautifully and went well with rare streak, as dry reds always do.
For most who sample it, it rates in the 80's and I'd say that's fair. It's still too young to drink really, but of course, the problem with storing lower/mid range wines like this are cost and space.
It's not amazing value at over £30. But if you paid under £30, you'd feel you'd done well.
Berry Brothers say the estate is good value and drinks well early. The 2010 looks like it will be worth sampling.
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