Fellow Wine\nLovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FIRST A VERY\nIMPORTANT PIECE OF ADMIN: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to the fact\nwe\u2019ve been invited to provide the wine and run the bar at Kings College quiz\nnight tonight, we\u2019ll be closing at 5pm<\/strong>\nin order to set everything up. Apologies for inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This week\nTrumpolina and Kim Wrong \u2018Un met up in Vietnam for a couple of Summer Spring\nRolls, Bo La Lot (meat in Betel Leaves) and a couple of pints of Hu\u00e9. Sadly, as is\noften the case after a few cold ones, no agreement was reached. Instead Wrong\u2019Un\nwill head back to watch another thrilling march by with the Highsteppers. Trumpolina meanwhile, mulls over a failed\nforeign photo op, claims people are telling lies to congress and misses the GDP\ngrowth target. We\u2019ll get a Chinese trade deal soon folks, he\u2019s desperate for\nit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other\ninternational news India and Pakistan are handbags drawn at dawn over Kashmir\nagain, with captured pilots, shot down planes and furious moustaches. Do you\nthink Led Zeppelin know about this fuss?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Brexitania,\npeople you\u2019ve never heard of have resigned, we have three dates for meaningful\nvotes and anything could change at the drop of a hat. Someone has discovered we\nhave the wrong size pallets for exporting. I wondered do people still do\nwoodwork at school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob Rees -Mogg\nis enjoying his rock star status in a Tom Jones stylee with a sell-out night at\nthe Palladium. Unlike a Tom Jones gig, it appears the audience held on to their\nunderwear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Climate disaster\nor an unexpected nice spell in February? I\u2019m sure we all have a view, or maybe\neven several, but you can be sure the kids who saw the first ever snow in\nHawaii, or those in the Sahara who also witnessed a splash of the white stuff,\nenjoyed it just as much that kid in Wimbledon Park eating an unseasonably early\nice lolly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We also note\nthat today is St David\u2019s Day (Dydd Gwyl Dewi) and on further discussion\ndiscovered that we don\u2019t know how it\u2019s celebrated. According to the interweb\npeople attend special church services, wear daffodils or leeks, or eat Welsh Rarebit\nfor tea. Sounds quite different to St Patrick\u2019s Day! We do know of one young\nlady who celebrates it every year by getting older – A happy birthday to you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wayne\u2019s a bit\nnervous on the sport front, no rugby this week (which might be a good thing)\nand we have the North London Derby. Normally we don\u2019t discuss this too much,\nbeing opposite sides of the coin so to speak. Tottenham have now lost two on\nthe spin and Arsenal seem to be on a decent spell of form, so he seems to think\nthere is a chance of Arsenal winning something at Wembley after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In proper sports\nthe European Cycling season kicks off this weekend with Saturday\u2019s Omloop Het\nNieuwsblad bringing us the first cobbled classic of the season. We\u2019ll be cheering\nfor Ian Stannard I think, but think it\u2019s going to be difficult to beat Greg Van\nAvermaet. For the women\u2019s race we can\u2019t help wonder if it may just be Chantal\nBlaak\u2019s time to win. Sunday will give us Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne and we can\u2019t\nhelp but wonder if Matteo Trentin might grab the top podium place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the wine\nfront, a news story we found very interesting was that Constellation brands is\nto sell or discontinue 40% of its wine and spirits brands. It seems to us that\neverywhere you look people are developing \u201cbrands\u201d when we thought you went\nabout building a business. Constellation has built and bought lots and lots of\nwineries and spirits brands in the time we\u2019ve been in the wine trade, and this\nis not the first time they\u2019ve had a cull. We think there might be a note of caution\nto be learned somewhere in this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lillywhites\nwill be represented by Desjacques\nSauvignon Blanc (\u00a39.49).<\/strong> A lovely drop from Sauvignon Blanc\u2019s heartland in\nthe Loire Valley. A highly aromatic wine with fresh zesty citrus and gooseberry\nflavours and mouth-watering acidity. Fruit follows the nose nicely with some\nadded chalky mineral to the finish. Very much made in the image of a Sancerre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gunners are\nrepresented by a delicious Saumur Champigny in the shape of Les Clos Maurice Vieilles Vignes 2016\n(\u00a317.99)<\/strong>. I could give you all the guff about the soil in the vineyards,\nthe angle of the slope the vines are planted on etc. but the reason we bought\nthis was the label. Nothing at all to do with the lovely fruit concentration\nfrom vines planted in 1921, nothing at all to do with the fact that we loved\nthe fine balance of fruit, freshness and tannins, or the long finish. Certainly\nnot how delicious it would be with a pork chop, definitely the label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, FIRST A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF ADMIN: Due to the fact we\u2019ve been invited to provide the wine and run the bar at Kings College quiz night tonight, we\u2019ll be closing at 5pm in order to set everything up. Apologies for inconvenience caused. 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