Fellow Wine\nLovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We really didn\u2019t\nknow where to start this week. Should we start with the new immigration rules\nthat literally rule out (sorry) enough people to pick our home-grown\nvegetables? Given that imported from Spain veg will take that much longer to\nget in, what will we all eat? Then we\nhave leaving the entire hospitality industry with the impression that the\ngovernment neither finds them skilled or of much consequence. Would you call a\nMaster Sommelier, who gets about 10 years of training, takes 4 sets of exams (with\nonly 269 people qualifying worldwide in the last 50 years) an unskilled job?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We found\nourselves wishing for a government that actually had an idea of how the economy\nworked before we realised those new specs were a bite rose-tinted! Suffice to\nsay, we\u2019re expecting some slippage on this in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news,\nwe see that some parts of the country are receiving a month of rain in a day,\nfor the second time in a week. Anecdotally, Alex reports that Sports Direct\nwere getting low on wellies but had plenty of swimming trunks left should your\ngarden be getting a bit on the dampside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also saw\nreports that Japan is sprucing up hundreds of public toilets ahead of the\nOlympics arriving in Tokyo. Wayne reckons if there is any country in the world\nthat knows about a clean public toilet it is Japan, so it seems a bit like\ngilding the lily!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rugby is back\nthis weekend with the Six Nations finding its way back onto our screens.\nSaturday\u2019s early game finds the Scots travelling to Italy to collect a wooden\nspoon, whilst France will be bringing their canoes to Wales for an adventure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sunday will see\nEngland hosting the Irish at Twickenham. It seems Bono has been in to give the\nIrish a pep talk, explaining, no doubt that \u2018The Fly\u2019 is to score \u201840\u2019 if they\nare to be \u2018Magnificent\u2019 in the \u2018City of Blinding Lights\u2019. Personally, I\u2019m\nhoping they\u2019ll be \u2018Running to Stand Still\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In wine news, I\nhave much less esoterica to tantalise you with this week. The Swedish alcohol\nmonopoly Systembolaget are suing Vivino for breaking strict booze laws in\nSweden by offering reviewed wines for sale through the app. Like all the modern\nupstarts, Vivino insists it\u2019s done nothing wrong. My money is on Systembolaget, clue is in the\nword monopoly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new system\nof classification for Cru Bourgeois came into effect in Bordeaux yesterday. It\nhas taken the best part of ten years to get here, and from 2018 vintage there\nare now three classifications that will be reviewed every five years. The 2020\nclassification contains 249 Bordeaux Chateaux, 179 Cru Bourgeois, 56 Cru Bourgeois Sup\u00e9rieur and\n14 Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel. We have a list, if you\u2019d like one, let us know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We shall open\nthe account with a touch of white represented by the Doran Family Chenin Blanc 2015\n(\u00a313.99)<\/em><\/strong> it\u2019s a lovely barrel fermented Chenin with a good deal of\nelegance to its creamy poached pear fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pulling up its\nred socks you\u2019ll find Le Seigneur du Raveil Vacqueyras 2016\n(\u00a318.49)<\/em><\/strong> from a Rh\u00f4ne village producing some lovely richly textured\nreds. This has really lovely brambled fruit, a touch of spice, some tannin to\nkeep it honest and is just the tick for the weekend we feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019ll do from\nus this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, We really didn\u2019t know where to start this week. Should we start with the new immigration rules that literally rule out (sorry) enough people to pick our home-grown vegetables? Given that imported from Spain veg will take that much longer to get in, what will we all eat? Then we have leaving […]<\/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-1250","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\/1250","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=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}