Lambrusco

Last week the great and some not-so-good crammed into the gardens in Old Queen Street to gossip and carouse, sipping on seemingly endless reserves of Pol Roger and Whispering Angel. As I surveyed this magnificent scene, it occurred to me just one thing was missing from The Spectator’s summer party: a glass of chilled red wine. For that is the drink of the moment – at least according to Ocado, which has reported a 1,020 per cent year-on-year increase in searches for ‘chilled red wine’. What’s even more encouraging for those of us who have concern to spare for the puritanism of the young is that this interest comes predominantly from young drinkers. Ocado’s research suggests that 56 per cent of Gen Z and younger millennials have enjoyed chilled red recently.