27 MAY 1960, Page 34

Wine of the Week

The admirable new Ecrin Maconnais-Beaul°' lais has been formed to protect the good naive of the wine: Gilbeys is shipping the first of its Beaujolais (there is a white Macon to folloW) and bottling it in a revival of the traditiC191 Indian-club-shaped 'Beaujolais pot,' two-thirds the size of an ordinary bottle. Like the dear old imperial pint of champagne, which I wish Was more frequent, this is just the thing for two people for lunch, when a bottle is sometimes too mud' and a half-bottle always too little. My own re" commendation for this time of year is to try this pleasant wine cool like a rosé, as the people do who grow it. Six and ninepence a 'pot' is a very fair price, especially for a wine with an appellip