Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We thought we should start off this week by correcting some of the mistakes we\u2019ve made in recent news letters. But let\u2019s face it – nobody has that much time on a Friday. So, I\u2019ll just \u2018fess up to the fake news that that Lewis Hamilton is leaving Mercedes not McLaren as some of you read last week. Mercedes, McLaren, mistake and momentary madness all start with an \u2018m\u2019, as does muppetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week Dishy Rishi has made impressive efforts to demonstrate the excellent judgement and political nous that makes him the perfect person to lead the country. This week\u2019s achievements include blocking a pay deal with Junior Doctors whilst simultaneously blaming them for increased waiting lists at the NHS, having a tone deaf \u00a31000 bet with Piers Morgan over the Rwanda policy and then capping it off with a cruel jibe at the expense of transgender people whilst Brianna Ghey\u2019s mother was in parliament. Despite cries of \u2018shame\u2019 from all sides of the house he refused to apologise and is, a day later, refusing to apologise and blaming Kier Starmer for his problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking of Kier Starmer, after weeks of \u2018will he, won\u2019t he?\u2019 the Labour leader has announced the party will be scaling back its \u00a328 billion green prosperity plan by almost half. The main victim appears to be the home insulation plan, deemed expensive, despite everyone agreeing it to be a very effective and simple solution. I\u2019m sure all the storms and flooding have created no extra cost and we\u2019ll have to set nothing aside for future problems. Would it be nice if there were some politicians out here who\u2019d engage in a grown up conversation with the electorate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over in Paris, the farmers are yet to starve the population that this correspondent thought lived mostly on coffee and cigarettes. We also learn that medals for this summer\u2019s Olympics will contain iron from the Eiffel Tower. Before we all get over excited about the structural integrity of the iconic landmark let me reassure you that the metal was removed at its last refurbishment and stored in a secret warehouse for exactly this sort of thing. A nice touch we thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kamila Vilieva, the Russian figure skater banned for four years in January blamed her positive doping test on her grandfather\u2019s strawberry dessert. Apparently he had crushed his trimetazidine on the same chopping board he used to slice the strawberries. The Court for Arbitration in sport found this explanation was \u201cnot \u00adcorroborated by any concrete evidence\u201d. Strawberries marching up that superfood list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our man on the ground in Rome last week tells me the atmosphere was absolutely electric and the entire place was on their feet for the last Italian try. A word of caution though, the van outside the stadium that tempts you to get a beer for the walk back into town might be as expensive as the Ritz! For this week\u2019s fixtures England host the Welsh at Twickers for Saturday\u2019s late game. France will have visited Scotland in the earlier game and Italy will be in Dublin for some after show Guinness on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we move onto proper sports, the cycle road racing is edging closer, Tour of Columbia is underway, Mark Cavendish was third on stage one with Ferdinand Gaviria taking the stage and Davide Persico second. Oscar Sevilla, who raced in the Giro d\u2019Italia that Marco Pantani won in 1998, is racing his 26th<\/sup> season at the age of 47 and was third on stage two! Omloop het Nieuwsblaad is traditionally the first World Tour race on European soil and is just 15 days away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting this Weekend<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We thought we\u2019d pay a visit to the Chablis region of France and our chums at Domaine Fournillon<\/strong>. This is a 23 hectare family run domaine situated in the small village of Bernouil, close to Chablis. They currently only bottle 10% of the production but are expanding to meet demand. The soil in the vineyard has a high sand content alongside the Kimmeridgian limestone and has managed to resist phylloxera and avoid the need for grafted rootstocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n White wise we\u2019ll naturally plump for the Chablis 2019 (\u00a319.99) <\/strong>an absolute classic style with green apple and mineral notes, a lovely finish too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Red we will open their Bourgogne Epineuil 2020 (\u00a318.50).<\/strong> Epineuil is the name of a hill just opposite the Premier Cru vineyards of Tonnerre. It shares the same soil mixtures and where it was once well known for Pinot Noir ros\u00e9, the climate changes have meant that it has become a decent source of Pinot Noir more suitable for red wines as you can see with this example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, half term starts today, Lent starts next week and Valentine\u2019s Day rolls in on Wednesday \u2013 you have been warned\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bye for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, We thought we should start off this week by correcting some of the mistakes we\u2019ve made in recent news letters. But let\u2019s face it – nobody has that much time on a Friday. So, I\u2019ll just \u2018fess up to the fake news that that Lewis Hamilton is leaving Mercedes not McLaren as […]<\/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-1792","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\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}