Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Oi, Wayne, what have you done with all the news and all the sport? Oh, and the sunshine too, whilst we\u2019re at it?<\/p>\n
Yep, yesterday was a \u2018no news\u2019, trousers day. If one eradicates Brexit, Stormy Daniels\u2019 ex-boyfriend and her explanation for his tiny hands, mixed showings in the Champions League and high winds, we have not a lot to report on, news-wise and, if we take away the sun as well, we no longer have shorts on either.<\/p>\n
This, I think most of us can acknowledge, is a shame.<\/p>\n
I know many of you live for the opportunity to see middle aged men\u2019s legs striding purposefully towards the Ros\u00e9 fridge but such opportunities may well be gone for another year, as is much of the stock of ros\u00e9. When we continue to wear shorts, there is still hope, as we cling onto, for everyone\u2019s sake, the spirit of summer, to holidays and barbecues, to hours of fun punctuated by sporadic visits to work, to the dream that we\u2019ll never feel cold again or have to wear socks. Apparently, for hundreds of years now, such forlorn clinging has reaped no reward and autumn has continually ploughed its sharp furrow deep into December before flinging us into January, deep winter and, definitely, socks. Ever the optimist, a young chap of my acquaintance painted his rosier picture of autumn, as a period that isn\u2019t so hot and thus his sport kit won\u2019t smell as bad or need washing as much. Thanks, I knew I was missing the silver lining.<\/p>\n
But there is a silver lining. Or red, really. Whilst we can all be very proud of our roles in the attempted draining of the pacific sized Provence ros\u00e9 pool, at some point the party has to be over. All the bottles that ordinarily live on the shelves and never venture close to the fridge, have been sitting patiently for the last 4 months. With their ties loosened and in shirt sleeve order, they\u2019ve been heard to mutter under their breathes about how they can\u2019t quite see what all the fuss is about and why isn\u2019t anyone eating steak and kidney pie or thick vegetable soup right now; well chaps, straighten those ties and get your jackets on, you\u2019re back in play \u2013 welcome back red wine, we\u2019ve missed you, you\u2019ve now got a good eight months to impress and delight us.<\/p>\n
As Wayne suggested in the last missive, we have taken delivery of a few new wines over the last few weeks and I\u2019ll be honest, none of them were pink. However, with a view to easing ourselves back into the world of tannins and dark fruits, I have elected to open a red at the lighter end of the spectrum this weekend, but still with plenty of class.<\/p>\n
Jean-Paul-Dubost Beaujolais Lantigni\u00e9 2017 – \u00a316.99 \u2013 this is an utter charmer that we tasted for the first time about 2 weeks ago. There seems to be plenty of talk that Lantigni\u00e9, a smidge north of Regni\u00e9, will become the newest Beaujolais Cru. We certainly enjoyed this declaring it a \u201cburgundy lover\u2019s style of Beaujolais\u201d. It has lovely berry fruits, a touch of floral character with some soft tannins keeping it all together and, thus, it is very versatile food-wise \u2013 perfect for the changing of the seasons.<\/p>\n
We must, however, always show a white, in the interests of balance and of well, interest, so this time we will open up a wine that might just serve as a nice farewell to summer.<\/p>\n
Tornai Zenit 2016- \u00a312.49 \u2013 a bit more esoteric this one, hailing as it does from Soml\u00f3 in Hungary. Now, Soml\u00f3 is a big flat plateau with an extinct volcano in the middle, which is where the vines grow, sucking up all that volcanic minerality. Zenit is an early ripening white, a cross between Bouvier and Ezerjo. A fragrant nose, with aromas of nectarine, mint and a touch of summer blossom lead onto a palate of zippy, fresh acidity with hints of peach, wet-stone and spice. Very tasty and a real hit with a kedgeree, since you ask.<\/p>\n
That should really be it from us but I can\u2019t let the latest news from the world\u2019s greatest stonemason, go unmarked. We\u2019ve all read about it no doubt but if you haven\u2019t, the word is that Mr T, the man who instituted widespread business and personal tax cuts and who is now wondering where the money is to build his wall between Mexico and the US, suggested to Spain earlier this year that they build a wall across the Sahara.<\/p>\n
Where the money would come from; the sheer enormity of the Sahara; the fact that Spanish border, for the most part is across the Mediterranean not in Africa; the sheer imperialism of such a notion \u2013 all this was studiously ignored by the American artisan\u2026<\/p>\n
Oh, and Ronaldo. Sent off for pulling hair. When you read the headline it sounds like exactly something he would do, because let\u2019s face it, he\u2019s no Luis Suarez. However, when you see the \u2018offence\u2019 you just wonder, once again, about the parlous nature of modern football and its refereeing. If anything, Ronaldo could be sent off for grooming, by which I mean stroking another man\u2019s hair, like a barber. If we\u2019re now going to see red cards for such antics, I fear that diving could lead to life bans!<\/p>\n
Oh, and Russia. No longer banned from being in charge of banning drug cheats, Rusada will now be back in the labs poring over blood samples given by Russian athletes. And banning them, perhaps? Probably not. In other news, Mark Zuckerberg has just been appointed Head of Global Data Protection and Jeff Bezos is taking over at International Tax Compliance\u2026<\/p>\n
And with that, I\u2019m gone. Judging from a variety of \u2018jolly\u2019 texts I received from a number of customers and colleagues yesterday, the Experimental Beach Club in Ibiza is the place to be to drink magnums of Proven\u00e7al ros\u00e9 right now, not here \u2013 they even sent me photos to prove the point as the sun was setting \u2013 thanks for that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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