Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here at Park Vintners we like to think of ourselves of being somewhat involved in the fun business, even if it\u2019s just as supplying some of the ingredients. You can imagine then, our dismay at all the hoo-haa over a Christmas Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We normally like to have a festive party and the format involves Alex and Wayne going out to dinner together with their wives. Previous venues that may have featured on the invitation include The Fox and Grapes, The Lighthouse, Nutbourne, Santa Maria del Sur and The White Onion, All are places we feel you can have something tasty to eat and a glass or two of something suitably agreeable to accompany it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point we would like to clarify the actions that were taken last year. We will confess to having not one but two parties. Both of them had the same menu and wine list but no party games or dancing. Because of the government\u2019s rules we found plans changing rather rapidly. In the end we had a really rather delicious hare rag\u00f9 takeaway from our chums at Whisk and some rather tasty wine from a shelf in this very building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first party was here in Wimbledon Park with the second occurring simultaneously in Balham, the two linked by Zoom. We can attribute the Zoom link to the technical abilities of our wives, who spend a large part of their working days enjoying its attributes. We can attest that no other staff, press officers or journalists were present. There was no sleeping Prime Minister upstairs having an early night in a defiant \u2018non-attending\u2019 manner. Two teenagers may or may not have been in the building watching television but we cannot confirm or deny because their phones have been changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other than that, we have nothing further to say on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have you been following the Grand Prix? All to play for in the Drivers\u2019 Championship with Hamilton and Verstappen on equal points going into the final race of the season. Could be a nail biter, could be two cars off at the first corner, let\u2019s see on Sunday shall we? We weren\u2019t sure we wanted to mention the cricket but on reflection we\u2019ll just reference our email of 26th<\/sup> July 2019, the blond scarecrow had just become Prime Minister when we wrote: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTheresa was seen sipping a clear drink with a slice of lime in it at Lord\u2019s yesterday; she looked remarkably relaxed, unshackled and about 10 years younger \u2013 easy lays the head that no longer wears the crown, to horrendously misquote the Bard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n She did witness a bit of a fight back by the England team though, including an extraordinary innings by a number 11 plus the traditional mid-order collapse. Good to see Roy in the runs, bit of a concern about Burns though, is the step up to Test a bit too big \u2013 Australia will be watching and learning.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing further to say on that matter either!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other news we found lying around in the internet\u2019s dusty shoebox, Santa has survived another summer in the Bahama\u2019s and is back in Lapland working hard for the big day. A victim of soaring electricity prices and collapsing energy providers just like the rest of us, he has been harnessing the power from the Aurora Borealis to power the Elves workshop which explains why the colours have been so green lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Talking of Elves, Alex has put together some selections of seasonably suitable reds that may tickle your fancy on the gift or drinking front. We\u2019ve taken the liberty of attaching the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All that remains is for us to enlighten those of you who\u2019d like to taste some wine at the weekend. In the celebratory corner we\u2019ll pop the cork on Joseph Perrier Cuv\u00e9e Royale Brut NV (\u00a336.99 or \u00a3184.95 for six)<\/strong> because it\u2019s delicious and we\u2019ve not had it on tasting for ages. Running around in the white ski jacket will be Flametree Chardonnay 2020 (\u00a318.99)<\/strong> a stunning example from Margaret River and if those fishy folk at the farmers market have some brill, that might be just the ticket! Arriving with the speed of a Pat Cummins delivery will be Geoff Merrill Bush Vine GSM 2013 (\u00a319.49) <\/strong>if anyone is watching the cricket it\u2019ll certainly be Geoff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Here at Park Vintners we like to think of ourselves of being somewhat involved in the fun business, even if it\u2019s just as supplying some of the ingredients. You can imagine then, our dismay at all the hoo-haa over a Christmas Party. We normally like to have a festive party and the […]<\/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-1493","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\/1493","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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}