Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Who knew \u2018Greek Barolo\u2019 was going to be so popular? Wayne\u2019s feeling very smug. Having spent more years than either of us will admit to nagging Alex about Greek wine and space on the shelf, we\u2019ve bought some, sold it all and now there\u2019s space on the shelf!<\/p>\n
It seems someone has had their finger in the pie at Patisserie Valerie, as this week forensic accountants were called in to establish exactly what has caused the \u00a320m hole in the numbers. Now, call me old fashioned but even for a posh cake shop that\u2019s been around for 92 years, \u00a320m buys you an awful lot of Rum Babas.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been involved with the accountant a bit this week, last year\u2019s accounts, this quarter\u2019s VAT blah blah blah but we were also discussing the business going forward, as you do. You can imagine our horror then to read headlines that suggest our future maybe in some peril.<\/p>\n
\u201cNearly 30% of young people in England don\u2019t drink\u201d<\/em> doesn\u2019t make for happy reading from this side of the counter. Looking closer at the study you notice that by young they weren\u2019t joking, some 22% of the people discussed aren\u2019t even legally able to buy anything other than tonic water or Biltong in our shop! We do think over the years it\u2019s become much harder for under age teenagers to buy alcohol since the licensing laws changed, so probably that is leading to wholesale behavioural change.<\/p>\n \u2018Quick Alex, lets diversify. There\u2019s a golf course around the corner, should we have a chat with Big Bertha?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSlazenger may be more appropriate Wayne, and the street already has a tennis shop.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It would appear some light fingered ne\u2019er-do-well has made off with Geraint Thomas\u2019s Tour de France Trophy. The naughty folk on the Pinarello stand left it unattended and, before you could say \u201cGeraint get the beers in\u201d, it was missing. Talk that the police would like Messrs Froome and Quintana to help them with their enquiries is wide of the mark, apparently. If anyone gets offered a big blue fruit bowl with gold trim, or even a cuddly furry lion toy please email the guys at Sky.<\/p>\n In a quick sports round up its an international week in football so nothing interesting there. (What not even Faroe Islands vs Azerbaijan?). Over in Formula 1, despite decades of competition, Ferrari seem to have lost their tactical nous. To close the cycling season, \u2018Ride of the Fallen Leaves\u2019 or Il Lombardia is this weekend. All those involved are looking forward to eating cake and letting the hair on their legs grow back for the winter. Finally, those of you who like to watch a swinging stick and a lawn with sand holes should get yourselves down to Walton Heath Golf Club for the British Masters, it\u2019s just down the road.<\/p>\n Tasting this weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n Desperately clinging on to thoughts of summer, and having gone Greek last week, this week it\u2019s all Y Vino Espa\u00f1a! On the red front we shall weigh in with Palacio del Camino Real Crianza 2015 (\u00a310.99)<\/strong> a delicious Rioja Crianza that has fallen into our lap rather fortuitously.<\/p>\n Thanks to everyone who attended last night\u2019s Cheese and Wine tasting, you\u2019ll be pleased to hear the negotiations with the printer were successful, and it is behaving perfectly normally today. Technology making life better every day\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Who knew \u2018Greek Barolo\u2019 was going to be so popular? Wayne\u2019s feeling very smug. Having spent more years than either of us will admit to nagging Alex about Greek wine and space on the shelf, we\u2019ve bought some, sold it all and now there\u2019s space on the shelf! It seems someone has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAssuming that our chum Jaime delivers, the white corner will be occupied by a shiny new listing in Eido da Salgosa Albari\u00f1o (\u00a314.99<\/strong>) about which Alex said \u201ca really special mouthfeel. This should be on our shelves.\u201d<\/em> Mmm, not sure anything needs to be added to that, come and taste for yourselves.<\/p>\n