Desert Island Wines: Why a good bottle is the ultimate luxury item

Guests on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, to which they can take eight recordings, a book, and a ‘luxury’ item (which must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside). Needless to say, wine has been a very popular choice of luxury over the years.