Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Well it seems the BBC has forgotten the adage about telling, rather than being, the story for yet another week. They banned Professor Brian Cox from attempting to make contact with aliens as BBC bosses were worried health and safety laws would be broken. Who\u2019d have thought there are already regulations and compliance to go through in case of communicating with aliens?<\/p>\n
\u201cPermission to speak, sir?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 We wish a sad goodbye to Clive Dunn this week, a man who has amused us since we were in short trousers.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the world, Obama\u2019s in, Hu\u2019s on his way out, and Rod Stewart was in tears as Celtic beat Barcelona.<\/p>\n Chuffed in Chile<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We are absolutely delighted to announce that for the second year running we were Runners Up in the Wines of Chile Independent Wine Merchants Awards<\/strong>. As you\u2019ve discovered we\u2019re pretty keen on the wines from there, Alex is even speaking at a debate in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n Gifts<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It is getting to that time of the year, so if you have chums you\u2019d like to send a case to, colleagues who deserve a bottle of bubbly for their efforts, or a cantankerous uncle who only likes Italian wine then \u201cDon\u2019t Panic\u201d <\/em>just come and have a chat with us. We\u2019ve done gifts in the past for an art gallery, architects, bankers and barristers, not to mention a GP\u2019s surgery!<\/p>\n Birthday \u2013 Terrible Twos<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s our birthday in a couple of weeks so we\u2019ll do something a bit special to celebrate, eyes peeled people, you wouldn\u2019t want to miss out!<\/p>\n Tasting This Weekend<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Finally our search is over! We have spent months looking for a white Rioja that was both interesting and worth its price ticket. Some have been delicious but too expensive, and far too many have just been dull as dishwater. Vetiver 2009 Rioja Blanco (\u00a310.39) <\/em><\/strong>is both deliciously tasty and a decent price, so we\u2019ll have this one open.<\/p>\n Keeping an Iberian theme we thought it high time to show you all a Portuguese red. We think the wine from Portugal are offering some decent flavours and excitement at the moment so will open Quinta da Falorca 2007 (\u00a313.29)<\/em><\/strong> a rich spicy number from Portugal\u2019s Dao region.<\/p>\n And Finally\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A speedy recovery to both Bradley Wiggins, and TeamGB cycling coach, Shane Sutton, both involved in cycling accidents this week.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s be careful out there folks, look twice!<\/p>\n Wayne & Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Well it seems the BBC has forgotten the adage about telling, rather than being, the story for yet another week. They banned Professor Brian Cox from attempting to make contact with aliens as BBC bosses were worried health and safety laws would be broken. Who\u2019d have thought there are already regulations and […]<\/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-130","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\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}