Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Where to start this week? I think we\u2019ll start with something relatively low key.<\/p>\n
Some of you may have heard of a horse called Frankel. He\u2019s been relatively successful so far, and has caused a somewhat unseasonal sell out at Ascot this weekend, where he will be running his last race. By all accounts he will then enter an entirely different training regime, lazing around in the fields, chatting up the ladies: bet he can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n
Rolling Stones tickets are HOW MUCH!<\/p>\n
Awesome Sauce<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Now, I know we always deny sitting around tasting wine and shooting the breeze with our chums from the wine world, but sometimes it just has to be done.<\/p>\n On one such occasion, over the summer, we met a couple of very nice chaps, Tom and Paul, who are agents for a small champagne producer: Chassenay d\u2019Arce<\/strong>. We tasted several of their wines (it\u2019s work I\u2019m telling you!) and filed them under \u2018To Be Listed\u2019.<\/p>\n Well, they are here (the Champagne, not Tom & Paul) and Awesome Sauce they are too\u2026<\/p>\n Chassenay d\u2019Arce Cuv\u00e9e Premi\u00e8re Brut – \u00a333.99 \u2013<\/strong> an appealing blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay which has a beautiful lemon\/gold colour and a fine, vigorous mousse. Rich and elegant on the palate, with apple fruit, honey and spicy floral notes. In short, it\u2019s delicious.<\/p>\n Chassenay d\u2019Arce Blanc de Blancs 2004 – \u00a340.99<\/strong> \u2013 is a pure Chardonnay, matured on its lees for 5 years. Golden coloured, with a persistent fine mousse and pretty acacia and white fruit aromas. On the palate it is crisp and delicate with a lovely elegant tension between citrus and honey notes. \u00a0Way more exciting than some of the more famous vintage champagnes knocking about.<\/p>\n If you need an excuse to drink some champagne, just ask, we have an extensive excuse list, from the sublime to the ridiculous!<\/p>\n Claret shelves restocked!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It’s not a wine, it’s a life, right there in the glass.\u201d <\/em>\u2015 Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World<\/strong><\/p>\n Cheese & Wine Evening<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Is this Thursday, 25th<\/sup> October, at 8pm. As I type this there are 2 places left. You know you want to come, but have you just missed out?<\/p>\n Tasting This Weekend<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We shall bring our Rh\u00f4ne extravaganza to a gentle close this weekend and open up Vignes du Prince C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne (\u00a38.99)<\/em><\/strong> which is made by Celliers du Prince, the only co-op in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape area. When we tasted this wine with our chum Adrian, we thought \u2018an inexpensive Rh\u00f4ne red from the Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards, what\u2019s not to like?\u2019<\/p>\n We will also open Domaine de Coyeux\u2019s Muscat de Beaumes de Venise (\u00a311.99)<\/em><\/strong> if only because it\u2019s ages since we opened a sticky. Don\u2019t say we don\u2019t spoil you!<\/p>\n And finally\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A happy birthday to Tarzan, who is 100 today.<\/p>\n Aaah aaah aah aah aah!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Where to start this week? I think we\u2019ll start with something relatively low key. Some of you may have heard of a horse called Frankel. He\u2019s been relatively successful so far, and has caused a somewhat unseasonal sell out at Ascot this weekend, where he will be running his last race. By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","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\/121","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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}