From Paris With Love This Christmas. Jules Wake

wine from the Bordeaux region obviously; but the grapes, mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, come from the older plots.’

      ‘It’s very nice.’ He toasted her and took a long sip and then spoilt it by adding with a naughty grin, ‘Would you usually serve this with omelettes?’

      ‘But of course,’ she toasted him back with a wry smile. ‘Eggs and red wine, always. Haven’t you heard of nouvelle vin? Forget all those stuffy principles of white wine with fish and red wine with beef. That’s all terribly vintage chapeau.’

      ‘Really?’ Jason looked half convinced until she gave a gurgle of laughter.

      ‘No,’ she raised her glass and took an appreciative slurp. ‘I thought I deserved a treat after today.’

      ‘So it went well, did it?’

      Half an hour later they were still chatting as Siena emptied the last of the bottle into the two glasses. She was rather grateful that he got up to do the washing up. There did seem to be an awful lot of it.