As I explained here, we got back from our family holiday only on Saturday night 29 Dec. On 25 Dec had been 12 hours’ flight away from the land of turkey dinners so had planned to pretend that Sunday, 30 Dec was Christmas Day.
In the pretty basic food stores of Mauritius there is a modest selection of heavily-taxed, mainly French and South African wine so we bought there, supplemented by a late raid on Gray’s, a relatively sophisticated wine store just outside the town of Pamplemousses. Overall however we didn’t drink anything wildly revelatory even in...