Hemingway’s Ways

Las Campanas was Ernest’s favourite rosado wine in Spain. He drank it as he drove across the great Meseta plain from bull ring to bull ring as he collected material for Death In The Afternoon. Las Campanas means ‘The Bells’ in English and, who knows, may have influenced the choosing of his book title For Whom The Bells Tolls or, maybe, there is a reverse association. In any case, as a lover of both these books and Hemingway, in general, I always look for it and feel a special little something when it is the house wine. As tonight in Chin’s Japanese place, Toyoda.