Fellow Wine Lovers,
Welcome to your Friday update.
This week finds us still rather puzzled that the football season has started so soon, the Ashes may be won, but by no stretch is the cricket season over! It’s only August 14th surely any football games should involve only bare feet and beaches.
Talking of beaches, we were all glad to hear it wasn’t Alex who left his children at the service station earlier in the week!
Still talking of beaches, the two bobbies sent to Magaluf have been criticised for scheduling the patrols between 7am and 10pm when most revellers are sleeping or ‘chillin’. Don’t want to miss out on all the fun eh?
We were more than a little down heartened this week when we saw the IAAF had suspended 28 athletes that competed in the 2005 & 2007 World Championships after “adverse findings” on retested samples. It does make the Sunday Times story involving 5000 athletes rather more credible despite the IAAF’s assertion that it was “sensationalist and confusing”.
I’m sure they are falling over themselves to explain it though, especially with the news that the £1.3 million the Athletics governing body spends on testing is less than a quarter of the £6 million that is spent in cyclists testing.
What about football or tennis we wondered?
Science Fiction/Double Feature
We suspect there are a lot of themed parties happening up and down the land this weekend. We’d like to wish a very happy 40th birthday to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Difficult to believe that Brad, Janet and Frank’n’furter are that age already.
Just a jump to the left…
Is it only me, or does everyone find the Labour leadership election worthy of its own TV show?
…and a step to the right
The stars and stripes will be flown over the Malecón in Havana for the first time in a generation today, as Cuba and the US celebrate the re-opening of the US embassy.
With your hands on your hips…
It’s quiet out their people, virtually nothing in wine news but, with just a few weeks to go till harvest, it is looking like a good vintage across France at the moment. Crucial few weeks though…
Elsewhere, spam is down to a minimum in the inbox, and the nice folk that ring us every day to lower our business rates and cheapen our electricity seem to be on holiday too!
Even Tooting Bec Lido only had 6 swimmers on Tuesday morning, I felt like a millionaire with all that pool space to myself.
Timewarp
It seems like only yesterday I was choosing what we’d tantalise the weekend tasters with. This week the red corner will be all silky with Southern Dawn Pinot Noir 2013 (£13.99) a tasty little number from Marlborough.
The white will be the zesty and fresh Max Ferd. Richter Riesling 2013 (£14.99) a classic, crisp and delicate summery wine from the Mosel.
That’s it from us this week, if you’re in a bar with lots of people in fancy dress look out for the toast!