Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We had the King\u2019s Speech this week. Judging by its measured tone and relatively sensible content, we may have our work cut out mocking this lot, for the first couple of months anyway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I do have questions though. What\u2019s happened to Rishi Sunak? His measured and statesman-like speech could have been made by a completely different person. Is he a replicant?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lettuce Liz made a complaint. She didn\u2019t like her budget being attributed to her, claiming that was a political statement. Given how keen she is to keep her name in the spotlight, I was surprised she asked for it to be removed from the document but removed it has been. In the meantime, she described the King\u2019s Speech as containing \u201cStalinist\u201d house building targets. She is currently attending the Republican Convention in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also at the Republican Convention is Boris Johnson. He made an opening day speech to a room full of empty chairs. Nigel Farage is there too, the voters of Clacton clearly have very wide ranging demands of their MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere at the convention, Trumpolina announced a man with initials for a name as his running mate. JD Vance used to claim he was a \u2018never Trump\u2019 man. The junior senator from Ohio has also gained the endorsement of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Despite this, as well as backing Trump, JD yesterday quoted Nixon: \u201cProfessors are the enemy\u2026\u201d As if this wasn\u2019t mad enough, I saw pictures of the audience at the convention all cosplaying by wearing ear patches. It really would be quite funny if it wasn\u2019t quite so serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking of serious, the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio Two yesterday morning had a lady who makes political predictions based on how asparagus falls. No really. Her prediction is that the next President of the US will be a woman. She said it keeps coming up that way and she has dropped the asparagus a number of times with the same result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, sports fans will no doubt have spotted England batting first at Trent Bridge and that we\u2019re into the second day of the British Open at Troon. Whilst I write this, there seem to be quite a few scores with a plus in front of them. For this non-golfer, it seems a bit strange. Alex, however, mentioned something about wind and umbrellas. In real sports, the Tour de France is drawing to a close in the Alps. Today we\u2019ll be heading to the highest rideable road in Europe at 2800m, before finishing on Sunday with tough Individual Time Trial between Monaco and Nice. It really has been quite the ride!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile in wine news, Pernod Ricard has sold its Australian, New Zealand and Spanish wine portfolio to Australia\u2019s Accolade Wines but kept the French, Argentinian and Chinese wines in their portfolio. So that\u2019s Jacob\u2019s Creek back with the Aussies, just where it belongs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve heard it might be warm and sunny so we\u2019re putting Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles Bandol Ros\u00e9 2023 (\u00a323.99)<\/strong> in the fridge for the chilled corner. One of the top estates in Bandol, this 10 hectare estate is cooking on gas. Excellent drop and we\u2019d urge you to come and taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The red corner will be populated by Fleurie Cuv\u00e9e Sept 2022 (\u00a315.99)<\/strong> which will be really rather wonderful with pork shoulder you\u2019ve just decided to barbecue. A juicy red, with lovely cherry fruits and just a touch of fine tannins to keep it honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enjoy the sunshine \u2013 it\u2019s here for a good time, not a long time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, We had the King\u2019s Speech this week. Judging by its measured tone and relatively sensible content, we may have our work cut out mocking this lot, for the first couple of months anyway! I do have questions though. What\u2019s happened to Rishi Sunak? His measured and statesman-like speech could have been made […]<\/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-1854","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\/1854","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=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}