Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Thursday, the new Friday for one week only. It\u2019s not often we make excuses for brevity but this week we might have to make an exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ve been stock counting this week it really is as dull as you can imagine and takes the best part of a day. Not ideal when you\u2019re already wrestling with a shortened week but it\u2019ll be different next year, our year end doesn\u2019t move around like Easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Outside in the world, the party politicals are all gearing up for a local election campaign. We\u2019ve already seen New York subway footage falsely used to describe London, Labour mocking the successes (!) of levelling up and all the while child poverty is moving in the wrong direction. Still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UN Commission on the Status of Women is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women. For their 2025 session Saudi Arabia has been chosen as chair. I\u2019m not sure had them in my Top 10 of candidates but we all love a surprise. Reports the Garrick Club have offered to host are, apparently, somewhat wide of the mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We learnt this week that water companies up and down the land have been pumping raw sewage into our rivers for 4 million hours. That is the equivalent of 5.6 average lifespans for a human in the UK. As someone who likes to swim outside this really makes my blood boil. We also learnt that rowers have been warned not to go into the water after discovery of E Coli in the Thames (I wonder how that got there).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In sports news this week, the Boat Race is on Saturday. The women\u2019s race starts at 14.46 and the men\u2019s at 15.46. As far as I can see Oxford appears to be favourite to take both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whilst on the subject of sports, I\u2019d like to talk about the Barkley Marathons. Participation of the 100 mile race is by invitation and the course has a 60 hour cut off time. The challenge is obviously the distance, but more so the amount of ascent and descent, which is the equivalent of around two Mount Everest\u2019s. This week, the UK runner Jasmin Paris became the first woman ever to finish the race, arriving at the line with just 99 seconds to spare. Truly inspirational stuff, especially given that she is only the 20th<\/sup> finisher since 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst on the subject of tough sports, Classics season in the cycling is in full flow with the Ronde van Vlaanderen on Sunday. The race should have everything looking at the forecasts with strong cross winds on what should have been the easier part of the course. Looks like it\u2019ll be worth tuning in if you have time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve got this far without mentioning that it\u2019s a long weekend! So put on your comfy shoes, search for Voodoo Ray on your smart speaker and dance like it\u2019s the first time you\u2019ve heard it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll be open\u2026 Good Friday 12-5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday 12-6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we\u2019ll be back as usual on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That leaves me to talk about what we shall taste this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll start off with a trip to Piemonte for a sample of Gavi Folli e Bonato (\u00a317.99)<\/strong> before have a dash north through the mountains to alight in Burgundy for a taste of Beaune to be Wild (\u00a330.99)<\/strong> a red burgundy made without the addition of sulphites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That leaves me to wish you all a Happy Easter and just say if anyone has a 2009 Cheval Blanc knocking around, we haven\u2019t lost one in the stock count, but do have glasses and a corkscrew if you need any assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Welcome to Thursday, the new Friday for one week only. It\u2019s not often we make excuses for brevity but this week we might have to make an exception. We\u2019ve been stock counting this week it really is as dull as you can imagine and takes the best part of a day. Not […]<\/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-1811","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\/1811","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=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}