Fellow Wine\nLovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll drink to\nthat. A sunny Thursday, just before the\nlong weekend, can only make everybody happy and, by all accounts, thirsty. Thirsty Thursday. Whilst many of you enjoy Ros\u00e9 all year\nround, for some of us it\u2019s a seasonal treat and I think that yes, yesterday was\nthe season opener!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll drink to\nthat. Park Vintners voted best high\nstreet retailer, forever. Ok, not\nentirely true, in fact not true at all but, with the persistent demise of \u2018big\u2019\nhigh street names, never say never \u2013 give it a few years we might be the last\nmen standing. First up this week was\nthe Jamie Oliver business. In many\nrespects not a great surprise, as the writing seems to have been on the wall\nfor a couple of years now, quality of the food has slumped and if you ever get\nthe chance to read Marina O\u2019Loughlin\u2019s review from September last year you\u2019ll\nbe amazed it lasted this long. So that\u2019s\n22 empty sites on the street already. And\nthen we move onto Croydon\u2019s favourite son, Philip Nigel Ross Green, who surely\nnow must be stripped of his knighthood and who has had one hell of a good\nweek. He too is shutting stores and\nlooking to re-negotiate rents on his current sites, never a good sign \u2013 that\u2019ll\nbe 200 of his stores closed in the last 3 years\u2026 Oh, and at the same time,\njudging from what Peter Hain revealed in the Lords yesterday, Mr Green\u2019s \u00a32\nbillion net worth might be taking a bit of a hit quite soon in the courts. I\u2019ll drink to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, and whilst we\u2019re\ndrinking, is anyone else just a trifle bored of what\u2019s going on in Westminster? We\u2019ve all been more engaged than ever with\npolitics for the best part of the last three years, we\u2019ve all learnt a lot more\nabout the political machinations and taken a far more vested interest in what\nthe politicians are doing ever since that vote. \nNow, though, we (here at least) have had enough. We are really struggling to keep our eyes\nopen every time a new democratic procedure is suggested; struggling to like, or\nempathise with, any of the key protagonists and, ultimately, struggling to see\nanyone coming out as a winner in this process. \nSo Teresa is actually now going? \nHas she mentally already left, do you think? When she goes, is that the problem\nsolved? Who is that great white knight\nwaiting in the wings \u2013 or is it just the same old overweight mop? Oh, and seeing David Cameron sending\nsupporting tweets just served as bitter reminder of where all this started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s all have a\ndrink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yesterday,\nin a continuation of the bizarre times we live in, we voted in the European\nelections. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been\nconfronted with such a long list of options to vote for and certainly a lot of\n\u2018independents\u2019 who I had never, ever heard of and, I have to confess, didn\u2019t\nget a second glance. In the booths you\ncould see people standing there with the paper trailing down to the floor,\nputting their \u2018X\u2019 nearer the top and ignoring the bottom half \u2013 where does all\nthe lost deposit money go to we wonder? \nEurope? How does that fit with\nthe current situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And there\u2019s not\neven any sport really to distract us. \nWayne is on his bike to Baku with 6,000 spare tickets, should you wish\nto make him an offer. The Cricket World\nCup is yet to start and the kerfuffle over a man born abroad but with a British\npassport and an English parent being picked ahead of other players has died\ndown \u2013 let\u2019s face it Eoin Morgan is the simply the lead that Jofra is following. The Giro d\u2019Italia, with Simon Yates almost 8\nminutes off the pace, has been less of a viewing fixture here this year and all\nthat means really is that Alex has been doing far more work with less\ndistraction \u2013 I\u2019ll drink to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upcoming tastings – update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems we\ncaught you all in receptive mood last week as the Treloar tasting on 27th<\/sup>\nJune is now completely sold out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We still have 4\nspaces left on the Ros\u00e9 tasting on Thursday 13th<\/sup> June – \u00a325 per\nperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have 8 spaces\nleft on our 72nd<\/sup> Wine & Cheese tasting on 18th<\/sup> July –\n\u00a320 per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Further ahead,\nwe still have plenty of space on our next Domaine Treloar tasting on Thursday\n17th<\/sup> October but that might be a bit far into the future for most of\nus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wine School<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst we are\nlooking into the future though, it\u2019s worth me pointing out that we now have the\nautumn dates for our wine course \u2013 full\ndetails are attached<\/strong> but, in a nutshell, this is a six week, tasting\nfocused course, with the purpose of getting you to try new wines and revisit\nold wines that perhaps you\u2019d given up on. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll open about\n60 wines over the duration, so at the very least your tastebuds should be\ntantalised. Plus, you\u2019ll be all educated\nand suchlike just before the Christmas party season kicks in and you\u2019ll be able\nto impress your boss when you explain exactly how Champagne is made and why\nit\u2019s so much better than Prosecco \u2013 we should all drink to that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wine School<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wednesday 2nd<\/sup> October \u2013\nWednesday 13th<\/sup> November (no class on 23rd<\/sup> October due to\nhalf term)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a3150 per person \u2013 first come, first\nserved!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Weekend wine drinking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As ever, we\u2019ll\nendeavour to put something tasty in your glass this weekend and as a result we\nwill be opening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sameir\u00e1s Blanco 2017 – \u00a317.49<\/strong> \u2013 which is made from 5 grapes that just\ntrip off the tongue – Treixadura, Albari\u00f1o, Godello, Lado, Loureiro – but that\nare all indigenous to the Northwest of the Iberian peninsula. A really quite exotic pineapple and nectarine\nnose with touches of mandarin and similar orange fruits on the palate followed\nby a beautiful dry\/savoury finish with hints of pithy acidity as it fades \u2013\nmonkfish tail saut\u00e9ed in butter with some steamed green leaves would rock here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Domaine des Mailloches Bourgueil 2017 –\n\u00a313.49<\/strong> \u2013 which is a\nlight red made from Cabernet Franc in the Loire valley. This style of wine is one of life\u2019s great\njoys and we have doubtlessly bored you all rigid about this before so no need\nto bore you again. Lovely, juicy fruit\nand fine tannins, could be chilled if the weather suits, I\u2019ll drink to that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And with that we\u2019re gone – in fact, it’s worth noting that as of 6pm tomorrow we will be gone until Tuesday morning, so, if we don’t see you, have a bonne weekend and stay hydrated, as I think I might have suggested more than once\u2026..\u0002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, I\u2019ll drink to that. A sunny Thursday, just before the long weekend, can only make everybody happy and, by all accounts, thirsty. Thirsty Thursday. Whilst many of you enjoy Ros\u00e9 all year round, for some of us it\u2019s a seasonal treat and I think that yes, yesterday was the season opener! 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