Fellow Wine Lovers,
Wey hey here we are, happy Friday to you all. Nothing in the news much to write about in the UK, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has declared that nobodies numbers add up, but is anyone surprised? With two weeks still to go till the election we’re expecting the promise of pet Unicorns for all children and free glitter to feed them with. Not to mention shorter working hours, free bicycles and more sunshine. However we digress….
Park Vintners is celebrating a birthday this weekend, we are nine years old now, halfway to being old enough to have a drink! It seems a long while ago that we opened with snow on the ground and a curious public wondering what had happened to turn that empty shop into a wine shop. Now we’re not at all sure where the time has gone, it seems to have whizzed past us. We appear to have consumed rather a lot of cheese, with last night being our 75th Cheese & Wine tasting. Between you and I that’s a lot of strange dreams we’ve had. Thanks to all of you have joined in the fun, more dates for 2020 to come.
As luck would have it our birthday once again ties in with the turning on of the Christmas lights at Christ the King at 4.15. The Mayor of Merton will be performing the ceremony and there will also be carol singing. I suspect a taste of Foxdenton Christmas Spiced Gin (£20) might be just the ticket to revitalise those vocal chords.
A few of you have asked if we’ll be doing our Christmas cases this year. The answer is of course yes and we will bring them out next week. We’re just dotting eyes, crossing the t’s and making sure the wine is in the building.
Whilst I’m on the subject here are our opening hours for the season.
CHRISTMAS OPENING HOURS
MONDAY 16th – FRIDAY 20th DECEMBER 11AM – 8PM
SATURDAY 21st DECEMBER 10AM – 8PM
SUNDAY 22nd DECEMBER 11AM – 3PM
MONDAY 23rd DECEMBER 11AM – 8PM
TUESDAY 24th DECEMBER 10AM – 5PM
WEDNESDAY 25th – FRIDAY 27th DECEMBER CLOSED
SATURDAY 28th DECEMBER 12PM – 6PM
SUNDAY 29th DECEMBER CLOSED
MONDAY 30th DECEMBER 11AM – 8PM
TUESDAY 31st DECEMBER 11AM – 6PM
WEDNESDAY 1st – MONDAY 6th JANUARY CLOSED
TUESDAY 7th JANUARY – BACK TO NORMAL – 11AM – 8PM
It is St Andrews day on Saturday too, I feel we can’t let it pass without mentioning that our annual allocation of Japanese Whisky seems to be leaving the building with a bit of a swagger in its step. There are of course some great whiskies from Scotland too, one I would mention is the Benromach Sassicaia Wood Finish (£48) a stunning drop that has spent two years lazing around in barrels recently vacated by tip top super Tuscan wine Sassicaia (clue in the name perhaps).
Tasting This Weekend
We’ll start off the celebratory season with a soupçon of Lété-Vautrain Brut 204 (£29.99) a small producer we discovered earlier in the year, who is making great champagne. A blend of Meunier, Pinot noir and Chardonnay it is just perfect for aperitiffing, partying and celebrations.
The white gloves will be sported by Pulenta Estate Pinot Gris (£13.99) a cracking example grown at 980m altitude in Agrelo, Mendoza it is crisp and dry with an almost Alsace like richness to it.
Sporting the red scarf will be Sylvain Dussort’s Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2016 (£20.99) a deliciously juicy Burgundy that might feature as an early call for the Christmas table, but if not definitely a wow with all the game birds that are in the butchers at the moment. Come in and see us, have a taste and we’ll take it from there.