Desert Island Wines: Why a good bottle is the ultimate luxury item
A Desert Island Discs guest’s choice of wine is just as telling as their musical taste says Arden Fine Wines founder Stuart George...
Words: Stuart George
Guests on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, to which they can take eight recordings, a book, and a ‘luxury’ item (which must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside). Needless to say, wine has been a very popular choice of luxury over the years.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, for example, plumped for “two enormous casks of Château Margaux”, which he imagined had been released from the deck of his wrecked vessel and sent “bobbing towards the beach”. Host Kirsty Young suggested a batch from the “very good” 1990, the year of his wedding. “Yes, let’s go with that,” he said. “I feel then I could stand anything.”
Julian Fellowes
Chateau Margaux 1990 and 1961
Natalia Makarova
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