A relaxing (slightly superficial) break. No deep philosophical thoughts, no heavy writing style. Just everyday life anecdotes, and fun.
Have a sip of refreshing and sweet Cabernet d’Anjou (not a joke) and start reading.
Helen Fielding, with her light and dynamic style, paints a very amusing portrait of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something spinster – as she describes herself – living in London, and whose love life (and, secondarily, professional life) is a terrible mess.
One day, as a New Year’s resolution Bridget decides to write a diary. There, she counts all the cigarettes she shouldn’t have smoked, all the alcohol she shouldn’t have drunk and all the weight she should have lost. And she resolves to properly manage her love life. There is a long road full of obstacles and ridiculous stories ahead of her.
Indeed, she is extremely talented woman when it comes to putting herself in embarrassing situations. She is the very embodiment of clumsiness. She makes blue soup out of blue string, she wears terrible grandma knickers, and she is incapable of speaking in public. Bridget Jones’s diary is a compilation of anecdotes each funnier and more ridiculous than the next.
As mentioned earlier, a bottle of Cabernet d’Anjou sweet rosé wine would be the right beverage to drink while reading such a novel. Obviously, it is not exactly what we could call a sophisticated wine. So what? As warned, reading Bridget Jones’s Diary is a pause in our erudite reading.
Made from a blend of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet d’Anjou wines usually offer a crisp nose with aromas of strawberry, roses and end with fresh notes of mint and white pepper. Tender in mouth, the Cabernet d’Anjou is impressive by the freshness it unveils. In a few words: a very quaffable wine that softens life’s hazards.
Beyond all the crap you may find at the grocery store, there is one Cabernet d’Anjou that grabbed my attention: the one made at Château de Brissac – which, by the way, you should really go to visit one day if you have the occasion.
Books and wines 