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Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a gift to you, we\u2019ve let the sun out, so I don\u2019t want to hear any more moaning as it\u2019s here all weekend and now is the time to start polishing your Ros\u00e9 glasses\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all voted for our favoured candidates last week and still ended up back where we started, with Sadiq keeping his Parker Knoll Statesman Como Leather Recliner at the head of the table with 11 of his party colleagues around him.  Reform gained a seat, the Conservatives lost a seat, Binface beat Britain First, the ULEZ vote proved to be less important than most candidates had hoped it might be and Si\u00e2n Berry giving her seat to Zo\u00eb Garbett seems to have got a lot of people dangerously hot under the collar about nothing, frankly, since it was a London Wide Assembly seat where people had voted for a party not an individual\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, just short of 60% of voters were washing their hair, had a flat tyre, were double booked or just couldn\u2019t be bothered to exercise their right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we move on.  Sleeper cells seemed to have been activated in Westminster when we watched with incredulity as Natalie Elphicke sashayed across the floor to Labour \u2013 it\u2019s always the ones you least expect.  However, when she stated in 2023: \u201cDon\u2019t trust Labour on immigration they really want open borders\u201d<\/em> little did we know that she would be making her own brave journey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s next? Liz Truss?  J R-M?  Rishi?  Journalists everywhere are licking their lips\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving away from Westminster, we stumble into the world of classical music, not somewhere we know much about but we have heard of some of the big noises, including Beethoven.  It would seem that a couple of clever clogs from Harvard have been studying the big dog and, courtesy of The Drinks Business, we discover that, in the journal of Clinical Chemistry<\/em>, the authors argued that \u201csuggested primary sources of lead exposure include plumbed wine, dietary factors, and medical treatments\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plumbed wine?  Yep, it\u2019s a new one for me too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, the plumbing of wine involves adding Lead to the liquid and certainly dates back to the Ancient Romans.  The rationale was that the Lead sweetened the drink, made the tannins less aggressive, helped to preserve it and made it look clearer in the glass \u2013 all of which can be seen as positives, why would we stop doing this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Alex, perhaps because it\u2019s a devastating neurotoxin that can lead to irreversible brain damage, damage to your kidneys, your liver, your nervous system, seizures, unconsciousness and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in Beethoven\u2019s case, it \u2018lead\u2019 to his hearing loss\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tough week to be a Spurs fan, a Quins fan or a Northampton fan \u2013 nuff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, assuming that you took my advice at the top to polish your Ros\u00e9 glasses, they should now be ready to fill \u2013 here\u2019s what we can offer you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n