Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re interrupting your Thursday as tomorrow is Good Friday, or Holy Friday if you prefer. It is certainly a Bank Holiday and many of you may well be away from your emails. Those of you, that is, who haven\u2019t already upped sticks and been away for a few days. It\u2019s been a quiet week; traffic has been light, service in the coffee shop brisk and wait-less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out and about in the world, we all now own a tiny bit of a blast furnace or two in Sheffield plus enough coal to keep it going. I learnt something this week and will share it with you. The main product of a blast furnace is carbon dioxide, it seems steel is almost a by-product. Every day\u2019s a school day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Across the pond the Tango Tariffmeister continues to make the US a safer friendlier place to visit. You can now get much cheaper flights than this time last, though Canada has warned its university teachers against travelling there. On the subject of universities, in a valiant attempt to ensure he is the smartest in the room, Tango Tariffmeister has threatened Harvard University with the removal of its tax exempt status after they had the temerity to decline his instructions to punish its students for exercising their rights to free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\u2019s not having a great week to be fair. Having spent all that time filling the Supreme Court with judges that he thought would do his bidding; they only gave a unanimous ruling against him over the illegal deportation of a citizen to El Salvador. Ever since I saw that news I have been wondering if his ignoring this makes the US a rogue state, a lawless country or if it\u2019s just another slice off of decency?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you catch any of Paris Roubaix? Mathieu van der Poel won the men\u2019s race for the 3rd<\/sup> year in a row, amazing consistency and quite the ride. In the women\u2019s race Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot stormed to victory, returning to road racing for her first season since 2018. Her comment about her plan that it was \u201cjust a training race for the Tour de France\u201d must have sent ripples of concern through the peloton! I suspect she may well have moved up the bookies list now. This week we have De Brabantse Pijl on Friday and the Amstel Gold race on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opening Hours<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tonight till 7pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Good Friday 12-5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday 12-5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Closed on Bank Holiday Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to normal on Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you need a local delivery I can do this evening after 7pm or tomorrow between 5-6pm. Usual six bottle minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This week we\u2019ll start off in Galicia. There\u2019s a lot of chatter about this region lately and it\u2019s thrilled us for a long while. We\u2019ll open Follas Novas Albari\u00f1o 2023(\u00a317.99) <\/strong>which comes from Val do Saln\u00e9s, one of the five distinct sub-regions of R\u00edas Baixas and is the oldest, coolest and wettest part, whilst also being the birth place of Albari\u00f1o sometime before the 12th century.\u00a0 The vines for this wine are between 20 and 40 years old and vinified in a state of the art winery completed in 2005.\u00a0 Fabulously clean and crisp with citrus and floral notes on the nose, tangy stone fruit on the palate and a lovely mineral laden finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the basis that we may be looking for a match with lamb, we\u2019re going to pull the cork on Ch\u00e2teau Ka \u2018Fleur de Ka\u2019 2008 (\u00a336.99) <\/strong>Ch\u00e2teau Ka is an extraordinary story of determination and resolve. Akram Kassatly built his winery in the Bekaa Valley in 1973. Shortly after the first wines were made, Lebanon was engulfed by war. The winery was forced to close and Akram moved into other businesses. Finally in 2005 he announced that he was going to try again. Today, Ch\u00e2teau Ka is the only winery in Lebanon to produce wine entirely from their own vineyards located at 1000m above sea level at the Eastern end of the Bekaa valley. The owner, Akram, actually trained to become a winemaker in Burgundy in the 1960\u2019s but here he doesn\u2019t try and emulate those wines and in fact the blend is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 8% Syrah. So, a wine with definite influences of Bordeaux, made by a Lebanese winemaker trained in Burgundy \u2013 what\u2019s not to like!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m off to read a dystopian novel before it\u2019s moved to the non-fiction section. Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, We\u2019re interrupting your Thursday as tomorrow is Good Friday, or Holy Friday if you prefer. It is certainly a Bank Holiday and many of you may well be away from your emails. Those of you, that is, who haven\u2019t already upped sticks and been away for a few days. It\u2019s been a […]<\/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-1950","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\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}