{"id":591,"date":"2015-05-08T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:21:44","slug":"electing-a-cheese-rivaner-and-sancerre-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Electing a cheese, Rivaner and Sancerre Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fellow Wine Lovers,
\nDid you vote? Did you get it right? Are you now in charge, or are you one of the repressed minority? Did you stay up all-night? Do you think that changed the result? Are you mad with sleep deprivation?
\nEnough questions for now, I think. Neither of us got the result we hoped \u2013 Wayne\u2019s dream of a government banning everything apart from Wine, Cycling and Protein failed to arrive \u2013 too many beer drinking, pizza-eating runners was his gripe \u2013 whilst Alex\u2019s dream of a bearded, golf loving Prime Minister is still just a dream \u2013 perhaps he should stand for election.
\nWe did have a quick vote amongst ourselves though \u2013 spot the clumsy segue – as we elected the cheeses to have on our Wine & Cheese tasting next week (Thursday 14th May).<\/strong> The winners were:
\n\u2022 Crofton – a semi-soft naturally rinded cheese made with unpasteurised cow\u2019s and goat\u2019s milk from Cumbria
\n\u2022 Soumaintrain – a soft washed rind cheese made with unpasteurised cows\u2019 milk from Burgundy
\n\u2022 Shropshire Blue \u2013 a semi-hard blue cheese with a natural brushed rind made from pasteurised cow\u2019s milk from Shropshire one would imagine
\n\u2022 Wild Garlic Yarg – A hard mould ripened cheese, leaf-wrapped made, with pasteurised cow\u2019s milk from the republic of Cornwall
\nAlthough there are doubts as to whether Soumaintrain will be able to take his seat, being French and all that. The votes are still being counted with regards to the winning wines, the only certainty, thus far, is Clos des Eglantiers Rivaner 2014 (\u00a312.89)<\/strong> from sunny Luxembourg.
\nSo, if you want to find out which other wines make it in to the (drinks) cabinet and whether Soumaintrain gets past the border police, then join us next Thursday at 8pm<\/strong>. It promises to be great fun as always, the formula of wine + cheese being a winning coalition! Tickets cost \u00a320 per person<\/strong> and need to be bought in advance \u2013 you can do this by phoning us on 020 8944 5224, responding to this email or, if you\u2019re passing, pop in and see us. There are still spaces but they won\u2019t last forever!
\nAnyway, enough election tomfoolery, it\u2019s now time to indulge in a bit of Schadenfreude. In our missive on 17th April we were meandering around the subject of American craft beer, when craft stops being craft, and Anheuser Busch (not craft). Well it seems that Miller Coors (not craft) owners of Blue Moon (allegedly craft) are being sued in California for engaging in deceptive marketing \u2013 apparently the Miller Coors chaps have gone to great lengths to disassociate their name from Blue Moon Belgian White, to give the impression that it is a small brewery and as a result allowing them to charge more. Crafty, but not in a good way. Miller Coors production is said to be in the region of 76 million barrels which is suspect is almost 76 million more barrels than Steve at Rocky Head is producing in Kimber Road!
\nOtherwise, not much more to add from us. The 6 week Wine School starting on 3rd June<\/strong> is gradually filling up so if you had ambitions to enliven your palate prior to the summer hols, don\u2019t hesitate, give us a call today. It\u2019s \u00a3150 per person, you\u2019ll try at least 60 wines over the course plus you\u2019ll get to hear Wayne\u2019s oldest and best jokes each week \u2013 who could resist?
\nWe will be opening some wine this weekend because we like wine and we like weekends. We have just listed a Sancerre Rose for the first time which surprised us a bit. For more years than we care to remember we have been shown the pink wines from Sancerre by a variety of producers and never managed to convince ourselves that the juice in the bottle was worth the price on the shelf. Then this chap called Simon wandered in and insisted we taste his one. Fully expecting another disappointment, we dutifully put it in the fridge and tasted it that evening with a few customers:
\n\u2018Blimey, that\u2019s really good!\u2019<\/strong><\/em>
\nsaid Wayne, and before we knew it, we\u2019d ordered it in!
\nIgnore any derogatory comments we may have made previously, this is the real deal and definitely deserves a space in your fridge \u2013 if you don\u2019t believe us come and have a taste!
\nPascal Jolivet Sancerre Ros\u00e9 2014 \u00a319.99 – 10% off six bottles<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019ll also be opening a red, the magnificently named Magnifico Rosso Fuoco Primitivo di Manduria Riserva 2010 \u00a314.99<\/strong> which, according to my tasting note, has \u2018lovely voluptuous rich black fruits and oodles of spice on the nose – concentrated black currants and berries and bright sweet fruit on the palate with masses of crowd appeal \u2013 we\u2019ll sell masses of this!\u2019<\/em> Come and tell me if you agree.
\nSo, now I\u2019ll let you return to your daily business and, if you need a drink at the end of today and I suspect you might, you know where we are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fellow Wine Lovers, Did you vote? Did you get it right? Are you now in charge, or are you one of the repressed minority? Did you stay up all-night? Do you think that changed the result? Are you mad with sleep deprivation? Enough questions for now, I think. Neither of us got the result we […]<\/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-591","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\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}