Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How\u2019s life this week? We received an exciting email offering us a chance to join a scheme to help increase our biscuits sales. They promised a selection of Point of Sale items, advice on shelf placement, feedback from their thousands of members and even a free case of biscuits just to welcome us to the team. The only drawback, as far as we could see, was that we don\u2019t sell biscuits. But if this kind of promotion is your thing, we don\u2019t sell Porsches either but might be willing to entertain the idea of a free 911 or two in order to help improve our sales!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
None of the main childhood vaccines reached their uptake targets in England this last year, with uptake of the four-in-one pre-school booster vaccine (for polio, whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria) at just 81.4% among five-year-olds in England in 2024\/25. As somebody whose grandmother wore a calliper on her leg for most of her life after contracting polio as a child, I would call this a victory for stupidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Nottingham, Reform leader of the council has banned councillors from speaking to the Nottingham Post, which doesn\u2019t sound to me as great for democracy. That\u2019s Reform demonstrating their well-advertised unwavering commitment to free speech – imagine how it\u2019d be if they actually got into government!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
International relations are all rocking and rolling too. Denmark called in the top US diplomat over covert influence operations with respect to Greenland. Whilst it seems that talks of peace between Ukraine and Russia seem to often lead to escalation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the employers National Insurance Contributions changed in the budget, The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that 50 000 jobs would be lost. So far, of the 164 641 jobs lost since then, 53% of them have been in hospitality. This correspondent went to a free musical event at a local pub this week and it was almost empty – use them or lose them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Vuelta news, it seems Juan Ayuso may have already gone pop so we\u2019ll see Wayne\u2019s predictions as being as useless as ever, though Jay Vine has won a stage and Jonas Vingegaard is looking comfortable so far. In the men\u2019s football, it looks like it\u2019s going to be a tough season for Manchester United and West Ham United supporters. In the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup England captain Zoe Aldcroft has been ruled out for the rest of the pool stages with a knee injury. It\u2019s a much changed team that face Samoa on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we welcome you all back from your summer sojourn we thought we might mention a Cheese and Wine Tasting evening on 2nd<\/sup> October at 7.30pm.<\/strong> We have a maximum of 12 people per tasting and a seat at the table costs \u00a330, first come, first served. You can reserve your place by giving us a call on 020 8944 5224<\/strong> or just pop in and see us on Arthur Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll start off in the Loire Valley with Chatelain Desjacques Chardonnay 2023 (\u00a312.49)<\/strong> A light, crisp and appley Chardonnay given a bit of depth by some time spent on its lees but, with no time spent in oak, this fits into that comfortable space where you\u2019d like a glass of Chablis but don\u2019t have the posh Burgundy budget!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then we\u2019ll head down to Jumilla in Spain. Sierra de Enmedio Monastrell 2023 (\u00a311.49)<\/strong> Alce\u00f1o is a family owned winery that has been making wines in Jumilla since 1870 and specialise in Monastrell. We\u2019re both fans of this medium bodied red that is a fine match for a burger!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nice to have some rain last night but wouldn\u2019t it be nice to have some sunshine for the last weekend of summer \u2013 fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, How\u2019s life this week? We received an exciting email offering us a chance to join a scheme to help increase our biscuits sales. They promised a selection of Point of Sale items, advice on shelf placement, feedback from their thousands of members and even a free case of biscuits just to welcome […]<\/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-1999","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\/1999","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=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}