Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Today we\u2019ve decided to start with some numbers for you, wee brainteasers for while you\u2019re eating your sandwich at your desk and pretending to work \u2013 answers at the end….<\/p>\n
16 \u00bd – 11 \u00bd<\/p>\n
42,000 bottles (or was it pints?)<\/p>\n
253mm in 3 hours<\/p>\n
12.3 billion vs 11 billion<\/p>\n
1.95m and 34 years old<\/p>\n
So now you\u2019ve had a think about that, back to the news.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve a natural aversion to NIMBY-ism so are finding it a bit tricky how to phrase this next bit. I suppose the simplest way of putting it is this: a planning application has been submitted to develop the Butcher\u2019s shop \u2013 the reference is 14\/P3288 on the Planning department bit of the website www.merton.gov.uk \u2013 have a look and see what you think.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s October now and the Chile September has drawn to a close, hopefully you all enjoyed your forays to Limari and Elqui and ideally you have tried some wines that you wouldn\u2019t normally have selected. Anyone who has been past the shop recently will notice that where the window once was festooned with all things South American it now contains a solitary bottle of Dodd\u2019s Gin and a glass. This is Wayne\u2019s art installation entitled \u2018Ode to Autumn\u2019. He is hoping to encapsulate the passing of the seasons, the sense of desolation that comes with the falling of the leaves and the shortening of the days. Much like Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box, the artist himself can regularly be seen lying in the window, nursing a gin and wailing.<\/p>\n
When he\u2019s not prone in the window he has been extremely busy organising our tasting calendar for the coming months. All the tastings below still have tickets available (apart from the private events of course) so if any of them tweak your interest phone us 02089445224 or email us shop@parkvintners.co.uk or come in for a gin.<\/p>\n
Thursday 16th October \u2013 Wine & Cheese – \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday 19th November \u2013 Private Tasting<\/p>\n Thursday 20th November \u2013 Christmas Wine & Cheese – \u00a320 Jonathan and Rachel Treloar own and run this small, highly-regarded vineyard and winery in the Roussillon, France’s most exciting wine region. Thursday 27th November \u2013 Private Tasting<\/p>\n Wednesday 3rd December \u2013 Sparkling & Champagne Tasting \u00a325<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday 4th December \u2013 Private Tasting<\/p>\n Wednesday 10th December \u2013 Clive Ashby from Mentzendorff \u00a325<\/strong><\/p>\n Our chum Clive will be pouring (and talking about) a selection of delights from the Mentzendorff magic box. We\u2019ll kick off with some Bollinger, have a splash of white, a drizzle of red and send you all home with a lingering sweetness from one of the world\u2019s top stickies!<\/em><\/p>\n And while we\u2019re discussing tastings, how about having a slurp this weekend. <\/p>\n We\u2019ll be opening the Free Sauvignon Blanc (\u00a39.99 or 6 bottles for the price of 5)<\/strong> and Templars Hill Pinot Noir (\u00a319.99)<\/strong> I had to open a wine named after a temperance society that used to meet in a local inn- you couldn\u2019t make it up!<\/p>\n Back to the top now \u2013 and the answers \u2013 did anyone get them all correct.<\/p>\n 16 \u00bd – 11 \u00bd – the Ryder Cup score of course \u2013 another epic effort and one that would have definitely worth trying to get a ticket for.<\/p>\n 42,000 bottles (or was it pints?) \u2013 Winston Churchill\u2019s lifetime consumption of Pol Roger \u2013 the story goes that he had specially made pint sized bottles but either way it\u2019s evidence that wartime rationing didn\u2019t necessarily effect the top in the same way as the bottom.<\/p>\n 253mm in 3 hours \u2013 the amount of rain that fell in Montpellier in the Languedoc last Sunday which is quite a lot. Especially mid harvest. Bugger.<\/p>\n 12.3 billion vs 11 billion \u2013 according to the Office of National Statistics, in 2013 \u00a312.3 billion was spent on drugs and prostitutes in the UK whereas only \u00a311 billion was spent on booze. Not sure how they got their stats but frankly we can see a new tax revenue stream here.<\/p>\n 1.95m and 34 years old \u2013 Andrew Sheridan, the newly retired prop forward who has stated that he will be now seeking a career in the wine trade \u2013 pity the fool who pays late….<\/p>\n Finally an unashamed sales plug\u2026<\/p>\n We have managed to lay our hands on a small parcel of Boekenhoutskloof Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 (\u00a335)<\/strong> (you know the one with the chairs on the label!). <\/p>\n We\u2019ve never managed to get an allocation before and this time was pure luck so please form an orderly queue!<\/p>\n Have a lovely weekend<\/p>\n Alex & Wayne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Today we\u2019ve decided to start with some numbers for you, wee brainteasers for while you\u2019re eating your sandwich at your desk and pretending to work \u2013 answers at the end…. 16 \u00bd – 11 \u00bd 42,000 bottles (or was it pints?) 253mm in 3 hours 12.3 billion vs 11 billion 1.95m and […]<\/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-496","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\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWednesday 26th November \u2013 Winemaker tasting with Jonathan Hesford from Domaine Treloar \u00a320<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTheir path was rather unusual. They lived and worked within 500m of the Twin Towers on September 11 2001 and witnessing that event made them rethink their life and provided the catalyst to make their dream a reality. On the 10 hectare estate they do all the work in the vineyards and winery themselves. Describing it a labour of love to make the best wine possible at an accessible price, even if the quantities are very limited.<\/em><\/p>\n