Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
And never has this felt truer. The Fellowship of Wine Lovers (Wimbledon Park chapter) seems to be going from strength to strength this month, in spite of Wayne\u2019s attempts last week to persuade us all to give up eating meat and grow their hair whilst riding a unicorn or something. Yes indeed, the potency of our 6 for 5 offer has brought plenty of you out of the woodwork, although I suspect most of you were quite near the surface anyway, and has even encouraged a few of the January abstainers to stock up whilst the going is good.<\/p>\n
And how long will the going be good, now that\u2019s a question?<\/p>\n
At least in December the raging uncertainty we felt every time March 29th 2019 was mentioned could be allocated to the \u2018let\u2019s worry about that next year, for now it\u2019s Christmas\u2019<\/em> pile but now the press countdown is in days rather than months. As ever the media is paying close attention to two subjects of particular fascination to the British public \u2013 house prices and holidays. Apparently the housing market is stagnant at the moment (isn\u2019t it always at this time of year) and if you\u2019re planning on driving to the continent this year you might need to get all the stuff we used to have to need to get 20 years ago when we drove to Europe. An International driving licence apparently takes 5 minutes in the Post Office whilst the Green Card could take up to a month to get from your insurance company, which seems odd considering you can set up a new insurance policy in about half an hour. All this doesn\u2019t seem so bad really to us but perhaps we have a vested interest in being positive since over the next few months one of us is planning on driving in Europe more than once, one of us is planning on buying and also selling some property, and one of us just likes going on holiday\u2026<\/p>\n The real battle we\u2019ve faced this week is to find some news that doesn\u2019t involve the obvious Westminster based shenanigans. Late night tennis, a new planetary diet that threatens to turn us all into walking mung beans and a 700kg pet crocodile mauling it\u2019s owner to death didn\u2019t seem worthy of further investigation. The USA is still in shutdown, which just serves to remind us that political madness, intransigence and an inability to negotiate with your opponents is not just for these shores.<\/p>\n So, if we can\u2019t tell how long the going will be good, might we suggest we just seize the day and take control of our own destiny \u2013 and what better place to start than getting some wine in and not paying for all of it, especially before the duty increases at the beginning of February (yep, that was hidden in the midst of the autumn statement).<\/p>\n 6 FOR 5<\/strong> \u2013 as Wayne explained last week, it\u2019s a remarkably simple mechanic but I\u2019ll go over it again just to be sure. Choose 6 bottles of wine, or beer, or a mixture of the two and you\u2019ll only pay for five of them.<\/strong> A straight 16.6666666666666666666666666666% discount in effect but one that we shorten to 16.66% since our till only works to 2 places. It also works for fizz but that is true all year round so needs less limelight but doesn\u2019t work with the posh cuvees or spirits unfortunately. Come into the shop and we\u2019ll walk and talk you through it.<\/p>\n The other thing that the Fellowship of Wine Lovers (Wimbledon Park chapter) seems to have become increasingly engaged with is wine tasting. We have already had about a dozen enquiries for private tastings and February and March are starting to look quite crowded. However, amongst all these private do\u2019s, we are still offering our Wine & Cheese evenings<\/strong> too.<\/p>\n Dates were released last week but I just thought I would remind you that the first of this year\u2019s series takes place on Thursday February 14th at 8pm, here in the shop, \u00a320 per person.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fully aware that occasionally people have other things to do on this date we have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of interest that has been shown \u2013 a combination of being the last Thursday before half term coupled with the perfect excuse not to go out for a set menu with dozens of other couples trying not to argue on this day, of all days, how could you? means that places will start filling fast \u2013 we can only fit in 12 of you in total, so if you fancy it give us a call 0n 020 8944 5224 or respond to this email \u2013 don\u2019t tarry!<\/p>\n Tasting this weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n The Creation wines went down magnificently last weekend and we are looking to get some on the shelves soon. The one issue with showing wine samples is that you can\u2019t buy them on the day so this week we are back to normal, as it were.<\/p>\n So the white corner will be populated with Castanzu Vermentino di Sardegna 2017 (\u00a310.79)<\/strong> a crisp dry white from Sardinia that is a splendid partner to frito misto, fish and chips and a gnocchi pesto.<\/p>\n For the red corner we\u2019ll drop in on somewhere enjoying warmer weather than us. Flametree Shiraz 2016 (\u00a318.99)<\/strong> from Margaret River in Australia would be a great partner to some beef short ribs and horseradish mash, or peppers stuffed with lentils and rice.<\/p>\n That\u2019s enough from us for this week, stay warm and upright!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, And never has this felt truer. 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