{"id":532,"date":"2014-12-12T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:31:41","slug":"bollinger-hambledon-and-wombles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Bollinger, Hambledon and Wombles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fellow Wine Lovers,
\nThis week has been a bit hectic if we\u2019re honest, it took us ages to find the bulb that wasn\u2019t working in the lights, Wayne was a bit wobbly on the ladder with the tinsel, and we haven\u2019t even stuck the star together yet.
\nElsewhere we saw Yodel wave the white flag really early (10th Dec is surely some record), Fidel Castro won a peace award, and Heineken has been struck off of the JD Wetherspoon\u2019s Christmas Card list.
\nIn wine news we discovered that Jose Mourinho\u2019s price per play is a \u201cnice bottle of red\u201d if you\u2019re a rookie, and two ladies in Abruzzo have been fined, and imprisoned, for stealing two bottles of wine from a church.
\nTastings done<\/strong>
\nAll our closed shop evening tastings for this year are now done, rest assured we\u2019ll be back with some more in the New Year.
\nWe finished on a bit of a high though with some stunning wines on Wednesday night, the Bollinger Grand Ann\u00e9e 2004 (\u00a370)<\/strong> was particularly fine, and, with a slice or two of smoked salmon, might just make the perfect Christmas morning breakfast.
\nPresents Wrapped<\/strong>
\nWe have a perfectly shaped gift that keeps on giving. \u00a3150 will buy a place at the table on our six week wine course. We\u2019ll talk about sniffing, slurping, swirling and of course wine. Wine is the entire point really, you\u2019ll taste around 60 different ones including sweet and bubbly styles. It\u2019s very easy to wrap up and full details are attached\u2026
\nStories Told<\/strong>
\nThose of you with a better memory than Wayne will recall us mentioning our new English bubbly Hambledon Classic Cuv\u00e9e (\u00a329.99)<\/strong>. What we never got round to talking about was the history behind the wine. It seems that Hambledon was in fact the old name for Wimbledon which for many centuries was known as Hambledon on the Hill. It was only when Elisabeth Beresford wrote her thesis on a rare pointy nosed beast that inhabited the common at the top of the hill, that the area was re-named. So there you go folks, a fizz from Hampshire with a name uncannily like the ancient name for our area.
\nOne for the Road<\/strong>
\nThis week we will be pulling a cork, shooting the breeze and with a bit of luck selling a bottle of wine or two. To help us get through the day we will open\u2026
\nLunetta Prosecco Brut NV, Veneto \u00a310.49<\/strong> to help Alex celebrate a new grey hair in his beard (Italian at Uni blah blah)
\nPulenta Chardonnay 2013, Mendoza \u00a312.99<\/strong> a lovely creamy Chardonnay from Argentina
\nChateau Durandeau 2006, Bordeaux \u00a39.99<\/strong> absolutely delicious mature Bordeaux for a tenner!
\nDomaine de la Pointe 2010, Pomerol \u00a334.99<\/strong> because it\u2019s Pomerol and our friend Mark used to go dancing with the lady who does the winemaking!
\nTaxi!<\/strong>
\nI would just mention our deal on Bollinger a six box for \u00a3198 makes it just \u00a333 a bottle,<\/strong> at some point we will run out, you\u2019ve been warned!
\nDing dong
\nWayne & Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fellow Wine Lovers, This week has been a bit hectic if we\u2019re honest, it took us ages to find the bulb that wasn\u2019t working in the lights, Wayne was a bit wobbly on the ladder with the tinsel, and we haven\u2019t even stuck the star together yet. Elsewhere we saw Yodel wave the white flag […]<\/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-532","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\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}