{"id":1324,"date":"2020-08-28T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:26:42","slug":"raise-a-glass-to-boris-if-you-see-him-sprint-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Raise a glass to Boris if you see him sprint past\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we\u2019re not necessarily Boris\u2019s number one fans but we did feel for him when the media snark yesterday turned to his health.  We would all hope, having been hospitalised with a life threatening illness and subsequently being told some quite scary lifestyle home truths, that the move to appoint a personal trainer to help you get into shape would remain, you know, personal.  It\u2019s not news; in amongst all the things he\u2019s \u2018achieved\u2019 in the last 6 months or so, this should be the lowest on the trolling list \u2013 however that\u2019s not how news works these days\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the world of heavy weight prize fighting, we hear that the current belt holder, 74 year old Donny T, has been trash-talking his next opponent, 77 year old Joey B, suggesting that he\u2019s been taking performance enhancing drugs and that they should both take a drug test!  History shows that he did the same with Hillary C in 2016, which she ignored, but nonetheless it looks like he\u2019s going to use the same playbook for this fight, which might be an interesting sign of what is to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what performance enhancing drugs are septuagenarian millionaires interested in, we wonder?  Taking our minds out of the gutter, we discover that Donny confesses to a \u2018one aspirin per day\u2019 habit whilst Joe has yet to comment.  Considering both their ages and, dare I say it, the well documented high level of legal prescription drug use in the USA, I certainly doubt that one aspirin is the end of the story but I\u2019m not sure it ends in a meth lab either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a side note, Donald Trump is already the oldest President of the USA to take office and Ronald Reagan was 77 years old when he left the Oval office whilst Boris Johnson is  55 years and a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stung by all the criticism we received last week for failing to talk about wine in a weekly missive that misleadingly calls itself \u2018The Weekly Wine\u2019, the word from on high was that we need to concentrate a bit more on vinous matters rather than, say, the Tour de France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, where to start.  I imagine the deluges we have had over the last few days will perhaps dilute some of the fruit for this year\u2019s vintage in the UK unless we get some decent sunshine again over the next few weeks.  Equally, depending on how the canopy management has been, and I imagine most vineyards might have kept a bit of leaf on to protect the grapes in the recent hot weeks, then there is a risk, again rain resultant, that the leaves might have provided insufficient protection to the ripening fruit beneath and we could see lots of lovely grapes lying in the mud, beyond hope of vinification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still sure you want us to talk about wine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the much anticipated return of the schools next week and with that a small sense of routine returning to perhaps a handful of local households we thought we too would return to a bit of normality with the re-launch of our monthly case club.  To those of you as yet unaware of this, for the past 8 years or so we have been putting together two cases a month, one containing 6 bottles for \u00a360 and the other with 6 bottles for \u00a3100.  These cases attract a better discount than what would usually be offered in the shop plus they contain wines that we enjoy, the occasional bought in bin-end, often some esoteric stuff that we think people should be trying and of course some old favourites.  We call it, rather cleverly we thought all those years back, The Park Vintners Wine Club<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve attached the tasting notes for the September case (or at the very least, I intend to attach them), have a look and see what you think.  In a nutshell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n