To a plug for Luzo Trading, who must, in their shop on the South Lambeth Road, carry the finest range of Portuguese wine available in this country.
This includes a good number of mid range wines but with prices up to £100 a bottle or down to £5 a bottle if you want that. I made a start with three different mid rangers from Casa Ferreirinha, an outfit which Professor Google seems to know a good deal about, even if they do not sport their own web site. Clearly a bit old-fashioned. I shall report further in due course.
A proper wine shop which wraps any individuals bottles you may have bought in black tissue paper so that you do not clank on the train - although quite a lot of their wine comes in rather smart looking boxes of three. Something which the very nearly extinct Odd Bins used to do - and they were rather a good booze shop too, albeit in a rather different way. As well as their idiosyncratic range, I also liked the way that they encouraged their staff to be knowledgeable about, even to try out the stuff they sold in a serious way; not quite the same at all as the chaps in a Tesco Express. Still, not a business model which seems to work any more as Tesco is up and they are down - but hopefully there is still room for a speciality outfit such as Luzo.
See http://www.lusotrading.co.uk/.
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