Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
It has turned a bit fresh in the mornings perhaps but it seems incredible that we\u2019ll be putting the clocks back this weekend, doesn\u2019t it? If you\u2019re stuck for something to do with the extra hour I might suggest having a spin through Richmond Park, the colours are turning really rather splendidly.<\/p>\n
We received an email this week, it was an apology. Intrigued, I read it all the way to the bottom so surprised was I to receive an email apology. It turns out there was good reason for being sorry, they\u2019d sent us an email from a sister company, in direct contradiction of all the GDPR rules.<\/p>\n
Let me explain, a company we\u2019re on the radar of, let\u2019s call them \u2018Only Booze\u2019, continually try and sell us in-depth industry studies and annual subscriptions. So far we have managed to resist their temptations, cynically viewing the in-depth study of \u2018Big Seven Booze Trends\u2019 and it\u2019s \u00a3600 ex VAT price tag as perhaps less relevant to our small local wine shop.<\/p>\n
So to get to my point, it seems this sister company, let\u2019s call them \u2018Only Clothing\u2019 also seem to offer in depth industry studies and annual subscriptions at exactly the same price as Only Booze. Interestingly, the latest in depth study they offered us was entitled \u2018When Things Go Wrong\u2019 for which they apologised.<\/p>\n
In a similar vein Trumpolina, who only last week was making jokes about a Republican Congressman convicted of assaulting a Guardian reporter, has this week taken a very different approach to civility. He is suggesting that \u201cThose engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective,\u201d and called on the media \u201cto stop the endless hostility\u201d. Sadly, I didn\u2019t see the speech so can\u2019t tell you if he blushed, even a little, when he said it. Seems to me even Fake News is now so yesterday, you don\u2019t even need to make it up. It\u2019s a good job he doesn\u2019t think restarting the Cold War will fix global warming. Err\u2026<\/p>\n
In Brexit news this week, UKIP MEP\u2019s may have had their best ever attendance record in Strasbourg as the Parliament announced the transition payments and allowances for clearing their desks and offices by the 29th March. All good things come to an end, it would appear, but not before a pay off!<\/p>\n
In wine news this week there are all sorts of snippets. A bottle of 1945 Domaine Roman\u00e9e-Conti sold for \u00a3424,000 last week, undoubtedly a great vintage but you can\u2019t help but wonder if it\u2019s getting a bit long in the tooth? Still it\u2019s the most expensive bottle of wine, ever. England\u2019s grape harvest is looking fairly sensational, only a winemaker can mess it up now! Most excitingly though, there is talk of a new train service that could link London and Bordeaux in less than five hours. It seems to me that\u2019s a proper sit down lunch, in Bordeaux, in a commutable time. What\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n
Finally, a 20 year old in Selkirk has been ordered to carry out 90 hours unpaid work after admitting hitting himself over the head with a wine bottle, drawing blood and knocking himself out.<\/p>\n
Wine School<\/strong> New Wines<\/strong> Tasting this Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n Having mentioned it above I propose opening the proceedings with Max Ferd. Richter Zeppelin Riesling 2017 (\u00a314.99)<\/strong> before moving swiftly on to De Martino Legado Carmen\u00e8re (\u00a313.99)<\/strong> which could be just the ticket with that Roast Pork on Sunday (make sure the oven is hot for first 20 mins so the crackling is crisp!)<\/p>\n Bill and Ted were right \u201cBe excellent to each other\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, It has turned a bit fresh in the mornings perhaps but it seems incredible that we\u2019ll be putting the clocks back this weekend, doesn\u2019t it? If you\u2019re stuck for something to do with the extra hour I might suggest having a spin through Richmond Park, the colours are turning really rather splendidly. […]<\/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-1067","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\/1067","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=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlthough we\u2019re only a short way into the current term, many of you have been asking dates for when we\u2019ll run Wine School again. We\u2019ll start on Wednesday 6th February<\/strong> and run the six week course over seven weeks skipping 20th February for half term and finishing on Wednesday 20th March.<\/strong> We\u2019ve held the price at \u00a3150 and you\u2019ll taste around 60 wines. (An absolutely spiffing Chrimble present!)<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ve bought some new wines this week. Domaine Cherrier Sancerre Rouge 2017 (\u00a322.49)<\/strong> is not something we generally go for, but to be honest this was so tasty we didn\u2019t want to miss it. (Apparently that\u2019s known as FOMO, we are reliably informed by young people). Also Vieux Chateau Gaubert 2010 (\u00a326.99)<\/strong> a delicious Graves from a great vintage that\u2019ll be very tasty should you be planning some roast beef in the near future. On the white front, the new vintage of Zeppelin Riesling 2017 (\u00a314.99)<\/strong> has finally landed.<\/p>\n