Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week we found ourselves admiring the French. Not, this time, for the quality of their wines, but for their energy and commitment to the cause. A mere 234 years after their Revolution, large parts of the population are out on the streets protesting, setting fire to the Town Hall doors, and fighting with the police. It\u2019s been amazing to witness the lengths they\u2019ll go just to keep a king out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Germany though, more welcoming or just a bit slow off the mark? Berlin hosted the first state visit from King Charles this week with photos aplenty in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Quite symbolic really, it\u2019s the first time the Brandenburg Gate has been used to welcome a head of state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We went to a wine tasting this week. We call it work, and have a system to slim down the 300+ wines that are there. Clearly many of them we have some kind of representation or similar chum already on the shelf so we don\u2019t need to taste them all. Like always we waded through the list and marked on the sheet what we wanted to taste and set off to start with the whites. As we sipped, swirled, sniffed and spat (it\u2019s not pretty!)we looked along the tables to see if there was anything visually appealing that we may not have checked on the list. Well there was, a Spanish red with a very fetching label so we popped a drop in the glass gave it a sniff, swirl, had a swig and then reached for the spittoon. It was really tannic, might be a pleasure in 10 years or so but won\u2019t be appearing here anytime soon. Pretty label though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news, British politics has not improved at all since we last spoke. We\u2019ve had a queue of MP\u2019s lining up to take jobs from a fictitious Korean company, including our very own one! Interests have not been declared properly by Mr Sunak, although the policy seems to be to answer the wrong question repeatedly rather than just correct the record. Locally, the potholes on Strathearn Road are growing at such a pace that we look forward to the imminent opening of Strathearn Lido!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Across the pond the mass shooting epidemic continues, proving once again that America still has too many guns and way too many idiots that think the solution is more guns. The town of Raymond in Minnesota has been evacuated after a train carrying both ethanol and corn syrup was derailed. Given the accelerants on board it will come as no surprise that the area suffered from a rather large fire. Trumpolina has become the first former President to be indicted (or indicated as he typed it!) on criminal charges. Apparently the privilege of being a former President means he won\u2019t be pushed to the ground with a knee on his neck whilst they cuff him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sportswise, the football is back after the international break, but the real excitement is for the Ronde van Vlaanderen on Sunday. In the men\u2019s race, Mathieu Van der Poel seems to be the bookies favourite but the odds don\u2019t offer us much room for error, or indeed cobblestones! We\u2019ve had a chat with our chum Dave and particularly like the idea of a Ganna\/Pidcock combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the women\u2019s race Annemiek van Vleuten is going to want revenge after being beaten by Lotte Kopecky in the last hundred metres last year. I just wonder if all the favourites are marking each other out it might Pfeiffer Georgi and Megan Jastrab just sneak off into the distance? They seem to be having rather a lot of fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Easter is nearly upon us but it\u2019s not too late to stock up on some Chocolate Block 2021 (\u00a325 or \u00a3135 for six).<\/strong> It\u2019ll be a very suitable partner to some lamb!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Easter Opening Hours<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday 6th<\/sup> April – Noon – 7PM<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Good Friday 7th<\/sup> April – Noon – 5PM<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday 8th<\/sup> April – Noon – 5PM<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sunday 9th<\/sup> April – CLOSED<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Monday 10th<\/sup> April – CLOSED<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuesday 11th<\/sup> April \u2013 As you were!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting this weekend<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll populate the white corner with a glass of Dog Point Section 94 2019(\u00a327.99)<\/strong> \u2013 a Sauvignon Blanc sourced from a single organic vineyard parcel planted in 1992. Natural fermentation and ageing in old French oak barrels for around eighteen months make it a real treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sitting to attention in the red chair will be Familia Cecchin Carignan 2018 (\u00a313.99)<\/strong> \u2013 also organic, the Cecchin family have been winemakers since 1959. They are very hands off in their approach, use minimal sulphur and produce really very quaffable wines. This is one of Wayne\u2019s favourites!<\/p>\n\n\n\n With that, we\u2019re off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, This week we found ourselves admiring the French. Not, this time, for the quality of their wines, but for their energy and commitment to the cause. A mere 234 years after their Revolution, large parts of the population are out on the streets protesting, setting fire to the Town Hall doors, and […]<\/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-1673","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\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}