Waitrose sell a brace of Brazillian wines: one red, one white (the red is reduced to clear – which makes me wary of it). This is the first Brazillian wine I’ve tasted, in fact the first I’ve ever seen. I shouldn’t be surprised that a country as vast as Brazil produces wine; I’ve been to neighbouring Argentina and tasted wines in San Juan and from further North in Salta – and this wine is from Southern Brazil only a few hundred miles away. In South America this is a stone’s throw. At a wine tasting in Maipu in November our host said that she liked to shop in neighbouring Chile, which wasn’t far – “only a seventeen hour drive…”