Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week, Reuters, a news organisation founded in London in 1851, revealed a major investigation to unlock a decades long kept secret. The investigation ran to 8000 words, featured some rather good pictures and referenced sources in London, Bristol, Horenka, New York and Kyiv. There were comments from war photographers, musicians and a hotel worker. Having read all of the 8000 words we can safely reveal that, apparently, Banksy is the same person that the Mail on Sunday revealed over 20 years ago. He has, over the years, used several pseudonyms and still isn\u2019t Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll admit to being a little surprised to find there were no more pressing topics to investigate other than an \u2018almost\u2019 anonymous artist who was unveiled two decades ago. Does knowing his name and what his face looks like improve or lessen his work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, in Cuba, Juan Carlos Pino has modified his Polish-built Fiat Polski with scrap and repurposed parts, to run on charcoal. His efforts to get around the US oil blockade involved burning charcoal in a sealed former propane tank sealed with an old transformer. It has a filter that is a stainless steel milk jug stuffed with old clothes. Whilst it all sounds really rather Heath Robinson, his two cylinder Fiat Polski can achieve 70kph! This ingenuity has been copied and now has a 50 kilowatt generator powering a neighbourhood and an icemaker able to make ice again. Juan Carlos said \u201cjust about any engine can <\/em>\u200b<\/em>be converted to run on charcoal by drawing hot gas instead of gasoline into the carburettor\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This week the King opened a project that started in 2009. The King Charles III coastal path is a 2689 mile stroll around the coastline of just England currently and was originally instigated during Gordon Brown\u2019s premiership. There are a couple of challenging spots to negotiate, the Mersey crossing requires a ferry, and to get across the River Erme in South Devon you have to time your crossing within an hour of low tide and wade across as there is no bridge. Should 2689 miles not be quite enough for you, the Wales Coast Path, completed in 2012, adds another 870 miles and most of Scotland\u2019s coast is accessible under the right to roam so that could get you all the way up to about 9000 miles. Those of you who have six weeks off in the summer will be expected to update us with your progress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but the man who would be king has won a war, needs help to win a war, doesn\u2019t need anybody\u2019s help ever, especially to destroy what he already told us was destroyed back in November. Oil is up, gas is up, stocks are down and Russian sanctions are lifted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In booze news, the Office for National Statistics has booted \u2018Premium Lager\u2019 out of the calculation for the Consumer Price Index and shipped in alcohol-free beer instead. New World white wine and Old World white wine are now merged together and just exist as white wine. Randomly, motorhomes have also been included for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In cocktail news, bone broth is coming to a cocktail near you in the near future. Predictions are of a rise in popularity of Bullshot. We have no comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasting This Weekend<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will start off in Marlborough with a glass of Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc (\u00a322.99)<\/strong>. We\u2019ve stocked this since the first vintage of 2009 and love the restraint that Kevin brings to the now traditional Marlborough character. We\u2019ll head over to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for the red: Hochar 2021 by Chateau Musar (\u00a326.59)<\/strong> is a blend of Cinsault, Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from a single vineyard in the Western Bekaa Valley, near the village of Aana. The vines are 30 years old and yields kept low. We tasted it recently for the first time in a number of years and thoroughly enjoyed it. Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, This week, Reuters, a news organisation founded in London in 1851, revealed a major investigation to unlock a decades long kept secret. The investigation ran to 8000 words, featured some rather good pictures and referenced sources in London, Bristol, Horenka, New York and Kyiv. 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