My daughter Eileen and her boy-friend Phil are visiting us this week and, of course, one of our very rare wet weeks is coinciding with their visit.
They had been anxiously studying forecasts before their trip and Phil had predicted, at work, that they were due a wet week in the Herault.
Knowing that the area is almost completely covered with vines one of his colleagues had asked him if the rain wouldn’t dilute the strength of the wine.

Phil passed the question on to me and my reply (I apologise in advance) was:

” Not if you cover the glass with your hand”