Fellow Wine Lovers,
We Sell Ice.
And that’s about all you need to know from us for this week…
What a wonderful week! Tennis in full flow, Tour de France in full flow, Cricket from Lords’ murmuring on in the background, sunshine flooding through the window, five fridges spewing out heat as they go into overdrive but my god it’s all worth it when we open their doors and feel the whoosh of chilled air in our faces….
But this idyllic scene has not been without controversy.
Kyrgios,Troicki, Dolgopolov, Klizan, Lopez, Tipsarevic and Potapova are amongst the ‘retirees’ in the first round of the tennis – all £35,000 better off than they were on Monday morning. Off the court Mr McEnroe has left Serena alone for a bit and stuck the knife into Novak, whilst Bernard Tomic has told us how bored he is – good to see that the force is still strong with the tennis super-brat!
Sagan knocks Cavendish off his bike. Or Cavendish hooks Sagan on his brake. Or they don’t touch each other at all. Or they collide. Whichever story you support the upshot is one broken shoulder, one expulsion, a knocked back appeal and now CAS have rejected any further action – so he stays out of the Tour and the trolls write disgraceful things on twitter about Cavendish and his family – almost makes one yearn for the days of drug cheats and illicit train journeys.
The cricket, as I said, murmurs on. The South Africans removed early wickets and then decided to have a bit too much pasta at lunch time resulting in a lot of runs coming England’s way in the afternoon but remember, it’s only day one and it’s always ours to lose.
Away from sport, the sun has properly started scrambling our journalists brains and resulted in a spate of what can only be fake news: Sir John Chilcot states that Tony Blair wasn’t ‘straight with the nation’ in the lead up to the Iraq War; Donald Trump has sent some ill-judged tweets; and Glastonbury blames part of the zero hours controversy on the weather being too good?
But whilst all this is going on in the big world, our little wine shop world continues to revolve happily. We have spotted the occasional star in a Wimbledon stamped car, we have sold a few bottles of posh wine to the pre-tennis luncheon crowd and we’ve taken delivery of more new wines.
We’ve taken on board two new white burgundys – Domaine Seguinot Bordet Chablis 2015 (£18.99) and Jean Loron Vieilles Vignes Viré-Clessé 2014 (£17.99) both wines we tasted earlier in the year and now realised we needed to buy soon before Burgundy becomes as expensive as Bulgari.
We’ve bought a delicious rioja – Torre Demontalbo Crianza 2014 (£11.99) from Berry Bros & Rudd; we picked up a joyful Pinot Noir from Lombardia – Castello di Luzzano Umore Nero 2015 (£15.99) and also picked up a stunning Nebbiolo with a bit of age on it – Vallana Gattinara 2007 (£28.99). They’re all here, we’re here, all we need now is you!
Wine School
It may feel like ages but September will be here before you know it and with it the start of the new term of Wine School. For those of you who don’t know about this we’ve attached some details but, in a nut shell, over the course of six weeks you will learn about and taste around 6o wines. You’ll fall in love with Chardonnay once more, discover life beyond Malbec and be able to spot a corked wine from 5 paces. You’ll do a lot more than this obviously and all for only £150.
Sign up today, before you go away.
Wednesday 4th October till Wednesday 15th November 2017 at 8pm.
£150 per person.
Wednesday 25th October off for half term.
Currently we have plenty of spaces left, so tell your friends too!
Tasting this weekend
Having mentioned Jean Loron Vieilles Vignes Viré-Clessé 2014 and Torre Demontalbo Crianza 2014 let’s get some of that in your glasses and you can let us know what you think!
Some of you may have noticed the absence of any rugby talk. For now, let’s keep it that way. Next week though, depending on the result, you might hear more!
And just in case you didn’t get it the first time:
We Sell Ice – How cool is that?