Dear OOOR,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope you don\u2019t\nmind me using your acronym, but I feel we\u2019ve got so close these last few days.\nI wanted to thank you for returning Barbara, James and Sarah to the fold, but\nat what cost? How many of our readers have you run off with this week? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you let\nthem know that the transfer window has slammed shut, with Arsenal getting a\nbargain in David Luiz, Newcastle\u2019s medical team becoming much busier now Andy Carroll\nhas joined and, despite much speculation, Danny Rose will be strutting his stuff\non the Tottenham Broadway? Once again, Manchester United led the way as ridiculous\namounts of money changed hands for players in the Premiership, whilst teams in\nthe lower divisions are going bust. Do you think it\u2019d make any sense for the\nlower leagues to get more cash and maybe act as some kind of academy process? Anyway,\nlet them know the Premiership season starts this evening, Liverpool and Norwich\nfirst up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you also\ntell them that the England cricket team have spent the entire week in the nets\npracticing defensive shots? They were definitely found wanting in the first\nmatch of The Ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I suspect they\u2019d\nbe quite interested to hear that despite Conservative members voting for Mr\nJohnson to be their leader, they seem to have ended up with Mr Cummings instead\nand we\u2019re sure he\u2019s not even an MP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
India has cancelled\nthe special status of Kashmir and the price of smart winter woollies are\nexpected to rocket. Jokes aside, I\u2019m not sure how ethical blocking all forms of\ncommunication are, the cynical part of me might find the government has things\nthey\u2019re trying to hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems Kermit\nis in charge of the railways as the UK train companies made complete fools of\nthemselves this week. On Wednesday they announced their decision to pull out of\nthe European wide Interrail scheme. By Thursday they were so happy with the\ndecision that they reversed it. Nice work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In France, those\npurveyors of the \u2018naturally\u2019 blue wine that we have discussed in the past are\nnow under investigation by the French authorities. It appears that chemists at\nthe University of Toulouse have detected E133 which is the same blue dye used\nin Blue Cura\u00e7ao, if found guilty the sentence for putting additives in wine is\ntwo years jail and a \u20ac375000 fine. You heard it here first!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While I\u2019m\nchatting with you, did you see that scientists at the University of Glasgow\nhave invented an artificial \u2018tongue\u2019 that can detect the differences in\nwhiskies with over 99% of accuracy. A\nselection of different whiskies and ages were used in the testing and it could\ndistinguish the different ages, the different barrels and the different\ndistilleries. When I read stories like\nthis I do wonder about our future, perhaps I just read too many Sci-Fi books as\na kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway I should\nthink about wrapping this up now, It\u2019s been nice to chat to you OOOR but I\nreally do need to get on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d just mention\nthat the Wine School<\/strong> that starts in October<\/strong> has four places left,\nso if you\u2019ve been checking the diary don\u2019t dally for too much longer. Full\ndetails are attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tastings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 18th July at 8pm \u2013 WINE &\nCHEESE TASTING – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 12th September at 8pm \u2013 WINE\n& CHEESE TASTING – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 10th October at 8pm \u2013 WINE &\nCHEESE TASTING – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 17th October at 8pm \u2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n DOMAINE TRELOAR WITH RACHEL TRELOAR – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jonathan and\nRachel Treloar own and run this small, highly-regarded vineyard and winery in\nthe Roussillon, France’s most exciting wine region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 7th November at 8pm \u2013 WINE &\nCHEESE TASTING – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 28th November at 8pm \u2013 WINE\n& CHEESE TASTING – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The greatest\nhits from all the tastings over 2019, just in time for Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Continuing our\ntour of holiday destinations, this week we\u2019re visiting the Loire valley for the\nwhite. Not far from the city of Nantes is Domaine des Herbauges. We\u2019ll taste\ntheir Moulin d\u2019Argent Chardonnay 2018\n(\u00a311.99)<\/strong> which is from vines around the lake of Grand-Lieu in Muscadet\ncountry. Crisp, dry, and completely done in stainless steel, the wine gets a\nlittle lees contact for complexity. We like to think of it as a Chablis\nreplacement, just without the price tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve heard\nSicily is popular this time of year, so we\u2019ll be making an offer you can\u2019t\nrefuse with Lumari Nero d\u2019Avola\/Syrah\n2018 (\u00a310.49)<\/strong> a deliciously juicy red that\u2019ll be tasty with all sorts of\nantipasti!<\/p>\n\n\n\n With that I\u2019m\noff, thanks for listening!\n\n\n\n\n\nu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear OOOR, I hope you don\u2019t mind me using your acronym, but I feel we\u2019ve got so close these last few days. I wanted to thank you for returning Barbara, James and Sarah to the fold, but at what cost? How many of our readers have you run off with this week? Will you […]<\/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-1180","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\/1180","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=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}