Fellow Wine Lovers,
Seven more sleeps and we’ll be there! Where exactly, I’m not sure – most likely here as we can’t go anywhere else…
Start again, Alex and try to sound more positive.
Seven more sleeps and we’ll be there! Having shed our Tiers on Wednesday we will all have travelled to far off parts of the UK to bring our newly mutated London virus to the masses…
Start again…
Seven more sleeps and we’ll be there! Having submitted to the cack-handed ‘divide and conquer’ strategy employed by the powers that be we will, in order to maintain a safe Christmas bauble, rank our friends and family on a sliding scale of how important they are to us. Do I see my sister or my mum? But my sister doesn’t want to see me however my Mum does. Do I really have to go and see Uncle Bob, isn’t this a great opportunity to swerve his salty anecdotes? And so family and friends are closely evaluated as we decide who we would save first, should the boat go down, and who we would leave to swim – no chance at all of any arguments or families falling out over this!
And again…
Seven more sleeps and we’ll be there! But not for long please and with the window open whilst wearing a mask and don’t touch each other please and certainly don’t stay the night! I can already see the headlines as various MP’s and Rita Ora apologise for ‘misunderstanding’ the rules….
Last chance…
Seven more sleeps and we’ll be there! We’ve had a tough year, there are undoubtedly tougher times ahead, enjoy your Christmas, be sensible, turn off all news broadcasts from the 23rd through to 27th December and raise a glass to absent friends and happy times. Like a tousle haired Jose Mourinho, Boris has his masterplan, has told us what to do and what his game plan is and now he just needs to sit up (and shut up) in the stands and leave us alone to get on with it on the pitch…
Far better
So, yep, by this time next week I will have consumed, hopefully, half a bottle of Champagne and 37 smoked salmon sandwiches whilst unwrapping the inevitable Everest of gifts that confront me. I will be safe in the knowledge that I don’t need to go anywhere for 3 days and that there is more food in the house than we would usually eat in a fortnight. Oh, and enough wine to keep Peter Langan going for at least an afternoon….
The question is, whilst I will have enough liquid supplies, will you?
Here’s my shopping list, if it helps:
BUBBLES
Lété-Vautrain Brut 204 NV £30
Canard-Duchêne Cuvée Léonie NV £30.99
Lété-Vautrain Grand Millesime 2012 £35
Joseph Perrier Cuvée Royale Brut NV £36.99
Canard Duchêne Charles VII Blanc de Blancs NV £40
Tarlant Brut Nature NV £45
Delavenne Père et Fils Grand Cru Brut Rosé NV £45
Bollinger Special Cuvée Brut NV £48
Collet Brut 2008 £50
Moutard ‘6 Cépages’ 2009/10 £53
Joseph Perrier Cuvée Royale 2008 £70
Thienot Cuvée Alain 2007 £90
Bollinger La Grande Année 2012 £112
Billecart Salmon Cuvée Nicolas-Francois 2002 £150
WHITE -MAGNUM
Greywacke Sauvignon 2019, Marlborough £41
RED – MAGNUMS
Lopez de Haro 2017, Rioja Crianza £25
Château de Paraza 2016, Minervois £30
Meerlust Red 2014, Stellenbosch £30
Filus Malbec 2016, Mendoza £32
La Côte Sauvage 2016, Cairanne £34
Château La Grave 2016, Médoc £38
Saransot Dupré 2015, Listrac-Médoc £46
Domaine Treloar Tahi 2010, Roussillon £50
The Chocolate Block 2019, Franschhoek £50
Valenciso Rioja Reserva 2009/11 £52
Meerlust Rubicon 2014, Stellenbosch £58
PORT
Krohn Ambassadors Ruby £11.99
Kopke Fine White Port £15.99
Krohn LBV 2013 £18.99
Quinta de Val da Figueira 10 year old Tawny £26.99
Smith Woodhouse Madalena 2005 £29.99
Krohn Colheita 1999 £34.99
Krohn Colheita 1982 £60
Porto Ramos Pinto 2000 £70
Taylors 1985 Vintage Port £85
Taylors/Fonseca/Croft Vintage 2016 Trio Gift Box £255
And then, for the mince pies, Foxdenton Estate Christmas Liqueur £20 just to help me nap…
So, that’s my list, there are of course other wines available, I haven’t even talked about Whisky but, rest assured, we have some.
Anyway, it may have come to your attention that there are only seven sleeps until Christmas. We won’t be sleeping so much though, our hammocks are slung up in the cellar already and our opening hours up until the January will be:
SATURDAY 19th DECEMBER 11AM – 7PM
SUNDAY 20th DECEMBER NOON – 3PM
MONDAY 21st – WEDNESDAY 23rd DECEMBER NOON – 7PM
THURSDAY 24th DECEMBER 10AM – 5 PM
FRIDAY 25th – MONDAY 28th DECEMBER CLOSED
TUESDAY 29th DECEMBER – THURSDAY 31ST DECEMBER NOON – 6PM
FRIDAY 1st – WEDNESDAY 6th JANUARY CLOSED
THURSDAY 7th JANUARY NOON – 7PM
Plenty of opportunity there to come and see us – pop in tomorrow and we might even have some wine open too!
Stay strong….