Dear OOOR,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here we are\nagain, another week of August passed by in a whirlwind, several showers and a\nsunny Thursday. I discovered this week that you have a cousin OOAR – Automated\nReply, who knew? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First up, can\nyou please pass our congratulations to everyone who received their A-level\nresults this week. All that hard work and now the flush of excitement of\nsomething entirely new – Well done all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere,\nEngland harnessed the power of rain to improve their chances in the 2nd<\/sup>\nTest of The Ashes with no play whatsoever on the first day. Those refunds are\ngoing to smart!<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the political\nfront, it is much more of the same old hubris from BoJo, the same old Jezza, despite\nthe latest wheeze to get himself in Number 10. Win a no confidence vote,\ninstall yourself in No.10 then offer a new referendum AFTER a general election.\nWhy not put it on the same ballot? That would at least save some taxpayers\nmoney on the organisational front. That said, his no confidence votes are like\nNairo Quintana\u2019s mountain attacks – much talked about but rarely witnessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Home Office\nseems to think it a good idea to put warnings about carrying a knife on fried\nchicken boxes. Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \u201cThese chicken boxes will bring home to thousands of young people the\ntragic consequences of carrying a knife and challenge the idea that it makes\nyou safer.”<\/em> Now, I\u2019m all for warning people about the dangers of knife\ncrime and doing all you can to prevent it but surely I can\u2019t be the only one\nthat thinks this is, at best, rather stereotyping their target audience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This weekend\nmarks the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of Woodstock. To celebrate this milestone\nthere is an archive box set of 38 discs being released. Now, I know many of us\njust don\u2019t have the time to relive the entire weekend, so it may be worth\nsearching out a copy of the original album for a spot of nostalgia (maybe on\nSpotify or Deezer). Richie Havens \u2018Freedom\u2019 and the version of \u2018Soul Sacrifice\u2019\nby Santana, just as they were garnering public attention, are both well worth\nchecking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only wine\nnews of note is that a huge winery dating from the Crusades has been found\nunder a house in Mi\u2019ilya in northern Israel. \nThought to date from the 12th<\/sup> century it has two enormous treading\nfloors for crushing grapes and could be the biggest in the Levant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll carry on\nwith wines from places you may spend a holiday. This week the white t-shirt\nwill be sported by something a little special, one of our more esoteric wines. Las 30 del Cuadrado 2017 (\u00a320.99).<\/strong> Hailing\nfrom Sanlucar de Barrameda, just around the corner from C\u00e1diz on Spain\u2019s\nsouthern coast, this is made from Palomino grapes grown on 70 year old vines.\nWild fermentation on natural yeasts in old Manzanilla barrels gives this wine a\nreally savoury character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, the\nred swimming trunks will be worn by Cambria\nBenchbreak Pinot Noir 2013 (\u00a327.49)<\/strong> from California\u2019s Santa Maria Valley. It\u2019s\none of those really soft Pinot Noir\u2019s that just scream \u2018drink me\u2019 from the\nmoment you pour a glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s probably\nit from us except to say have fun to those who enquired about holiday drinking\nin Sardinia, the Marche and Portugal this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear OOOR, Here we are again, another week of August passed by in a whirlwind, several showers and a sunny Thursday. 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