Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How are those ski slopes? Have you been elegantly swishing to the left and to the right making gentle soundwave patterns down the mountain? Or do you tackle the slope head on whizz straight down the mountain in a more \u2018Spy Who Loved Me\u2019 sort of fashion? Here in Wimbledon Park we\u2019ve had some lovely sunny days, the doors been open and the sweater stayed off till late afternoon. Skiing? Not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whilst we\u2019re on the subject of spies, a large number of police forces, the Ministry of Defence, The National Crime Agency and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary have all been taken to task for using video cameras made by Chinese firms despite flagged security and ethical concerns. Just imagine, the UK could be one great Truman Show, or we could all be Candid Camera stars on Chinese Central TV and not even know it. At least we won\u2019t have to worry about all those pesky balloons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whilst we\u2019re talking Canada it\u2019s capital, Ottawa, is home to the world\u2019s largest naturally frozen ice rink. The Rideau Canal Skateway is 4.8 miles long and normally welcomes around a million skaters between January and March. None at all this year though as Ottawa is experiencing one of its mildest winters ever and the temperature has not been cold enough to freeze the ice to a safe depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Margate, a new work of art by Banksy appeared. Entitled Valentine\u2019s Day Mascara, the comment on domestic violence features a 1950\u2019s style women with a blackeye and Marigolds pushing her husband into a freezer. The only trouble with it is that the freezer has been removed so our hero housewife is left on the wall with just her husband\u2019s legs which seems a bit more sinister than perhaps intended!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now often when I get to this part of the Weekly Wine I begin to notice that I have completely forgotten where I was heading when I started out. This week is certainly one of those, the swishing left and right was key, but key to what exactly? I think I might have to abandon that idea as one of those known unknown items in the weekly briefing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We could mention Kier Starmer announcing that Jeremy Corbyn won\u2019t be a Labour candidate at the next election, we\u2019ll see how that plays out, I can\u2019t see him going quietly. Meanwhile, Starmer has headed off to Kyiv to assure Mr Zelenskiy that nothing would change under Labour. After Wednesday\u2019s flag laden press conference I\u2019m beginning to wonder if plans aren\u2019t afoot to make him appear rather statesman-like!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not much noise on the Conservative front, 30p Lee-anderthal is spouting all sorts of nonsense that\u2019s best ignored. The blond scarecrow, still not in Uxbridge and West Ruislip, has been ranting about the expansion of ULEZ, conveniently forgetting it was originally his idea!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the wine front, anyone with $35 million down the back of the sofa might want to cast an eye over Juslyn Vineyards in St Helena, Napa Valley. Lord and Lady Butler who own the estate on Spring Mountain are selling up, wanting to downsize. Seems a great opportunity for the area, they even have a well which is increasingly important in parched California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This segues nicely into a glass of wine. After the flooding and landslides experienced in New Zealand this week we thought we\u2019d show some solidarity with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White-wise we shall open Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc 2022 (\u00a321.99). <\/strong>This probably needs little introduction now, but safe to say we still think it\u2019s the best NZ sauvignon we\u2019re being offered. More restrained than many from this region, with a lovely zesty complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Running around in the red corner will be Clos Henri Petit Clos Pinot Noir 2019(\u00a320.99)<\/strong>. The Bourgeois family behind 10 generations of Sancerre growing in the Loire were so excited about the Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc arriving from Marlborough in the early 1990\u2019s they headed out and bought some land. Planting was finished in 2003 and the estate is now farmed organically. We think it rather ace, come and tell us what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, How are those ski slopes? Have you been elegantly swishing to the left and to the right making gentle soundwave patterns down the mountain? Or do you tackle the slope head on whizz straight down the mountain in a more \u2018Spy Who Loved Me\u2019 sort of fashion? Here in Wimbledon Park we\u2019ve […]<\/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-1656","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\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}