Fellow Wine Lovers,
Goodness gracious, c’est le weekend, encore un fois. Sacre bleu and zut alors all round, what an earth shall we write in the email.
We could write about Wayne washing his jeans with the winning lottery ticket in it. We could write about the tennis and the cricket. We could comment on the bomb scares at Ricard’s Lodge and Raynes Park High. We could confess to turning up to a supplier tasting at the Institute of Directors on Tuesday, 24 hours early, and being told to stroll on. We could suggest setting Zika onto ISIS. We could share the news with you that iconic German brand, Black Tower has announced a major ad spend and a national marketing campaign, using the phrase I know we all associate with the wine “Wow! It’s Black Tower”. Apparently there will be special packaging for the retail trade which will highlight the new look, as well as a range of regional activities running from March to July in northwest England – think we might have found their target market!
But we won’t bore you with any of that, because we want to keep your minds clear to focus on a couple of things:
The Park Vintners January sale
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times. 6 bottles for the price of 5. 16.66% discount off a box. And you can mix it too.
The catch.
You have to partake before close of play on Saturday – come February, this deal will have been put to bed for another year.
So, even if you’re doing dry January now, be sure to be properly prepared for monsoon February.
Wine & Cheese Tasting – 8pm – Thursday 11th February £20 per person
And so we start our sixth year of quest to find the perfect match. It’s a few days before Valentines Day and as we all know nothing says ‘I love you’ more than a spoonful of Stinking Bishop and a glass of Rioja. Forget about buying him a new decanter or getting her 60 red roses – this is what everyone really wants! Sign up quick, spaces are filling
Tasting this weekend
We were setting up a tasting the other day and were ruminating on the fact that if we turned up to an event, say a wedding or such like, and the two wines on offer were Mezzogiorno Fiano £8.99 and Campos de Luz Garnacha £8.49 how very happy and potentially over the limit we would be! So with this in mind we’re going to open them both this weekend purely because we quite fancy it.
So there you go, that’s the first two wines in the case, only four more to go and you’re in big discount country!
Roll on the Thirst of February…