Fellow Wine Lovers,
Just a quickie this week and a day early, too – judging from sales this week, I can see how eager you all are to get out into those gardens and pop some corks, so I shan’t dally!
First up, opening hours.
This bank holiday weekend is a funny one, usually it’s just me and the man from Dalchini playing dominoes in the middle of the street as you all evacuate to bonnier climes far, far away. This year however, is different and as a consequence of you all staying around, domino tournaments are suspended until May. In the meantime, I thought I’d let you know when we’ll be open:
Today, Thursday 1st April – now until 7pm
Friday 2nd April – 12pm – 3pm – a short day just in case you need a bottle for lunchtime
Saturday 3rd April – 12pm – 6pm – plenty of time to stock up before we close for 2 days
Sunday 4th April/Monday 5th April – CLOSED
Tuesday 6th April – Back to ‘normal’…
Just as a memo to all this, I shan’t be able to make any deliveries on Friday due to the fact that the Volvo is a bit poorly and also Wayne is going to be busy at home with his latest side project.
After an umpteen of years talking about it he has finally got round to making his own wine, a red wine made exclusively from white grapes. Key to the blend are Muskat Alarff, Tsallalie and the Lithuanian grape Melagiu Diena. How he has managed to get the white wine grapes to produce red wine is a mystery to me but I imagine it must have to do with the prevalence of cochineal bugs, imported from Mexico to his vineyard in Balham that are accidentally crushed in the picking process (see, it’s really nigh on impossible to get a 100% vegan wine!). Anyway, a red wine from white grapes named Red Wayne 20/20 – perfect for the Italian seasonal speciality Pesce d’Aprile…
Gibberish.
Anyway, I said this would be short and sweet, so let’s make it so. Let’s also make it an email that doesn’t contain serious reference to Covid, bike racing, cricket or rugby, politics or European vaccine policy…
And with that, I’m gone – have a wonderful Easter break and let’s all hope it doesn’t snow on your garden parties!