Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Thank God that\u2019s over.\u00a0 January doesn\u2019t make anybody happy.\u00a0 Except, perhaps, the taxman who takes his pounds of flesh both on a personal level, on a VAT level and on a corporation level.\u00a0 Any money we earnt in December we got to look at in the account for just over 3 weeks, and then we sent it all off to HMRC.<\/p>\n
So, yes, we dislike January.\u00a0 It sucks any of the remaining festive joy from us, it\u2019s cold and dark and hugely underwhelming.\u00a0 Even people with birthdays in the month are embarrassed and ashamed of January \u2013 how many picnics, barbecues, beach parties or weekends-away did you get invited to last month?\u00a0 My point exactly.<\/p>\n
But February\u2019s cool.\u00a0 Released from the arbitrary detention of the first 31 days of the year, we emerge into the bright lights of the next 29 to see that there is more to life than Ecuadorean telenovelas, guinea pig for breakfast, lunch and dinner and Pilsener.\u00a0 It feels like life has restarted.\u00a0 Having a glass of wine midweek is no longer verboten, the gym is no longer your second home and stoically eating healthily (kale?) is done with.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, might we suggest beer?<\/p>\n
It may be a tenuous connection but a competition known as the Six Nations starts this weekend.\u00a0 It involves people playing rugby against one another whilst a few million other people watch them on television, usually whilst drinking beer.\u00a0 And here\u2019s where we can be of assistance.\u00a0 It\u2019s only been a week but already we miss the 6 for 5 deal.\u00a0 <\/strong>So, as a consolation we have decided to do a mini offer.<\/p>\n The Park Brewery Killcat Pale Ale (3.9%) <\/strong>and Rocky Head Brewery Session Ale (4%) <\/strong>will be available at a discount of 16.66% off six (mixable) whilst stocks last.\u00a0 The Killcat (\u00a32.59)<\/strong> is a refreshing pale ale with the hoppiness and punch of an IPA but without the high ABV.\u00a0 The Session (\u00a32.50) <\/strong>is brewed for easy drinking but with the hop punch of an IPA.\u00a0 Similar beers, brewed locally, easy on the alcohol \u2013 perfect for the rugby and indeed for any other pastime where beer might help oil the wheels!<\/p>\n For those of you less than interested in oval ball sports drinks, might we suggest wine?<\/p>\n We\u2019ve been having a few late openings of late, all due to our visiting various supplier tastings with a view to refreshing or adding to our range.\u00a0 These late starts have not been in vain though and we\u2019ll open a couple of our new arrivals tonight and tomorrow.<\/p>\n Vivir Sin Dormir 2014, Jumilla, Spain (\u00a311.99) <\/strong>100% Monastrell.\u00a0 100% Organic.\u00a0 A real favourite of ours, Monastrell.\u00a0 We have always enjoyed but hadn\u2019t had one we thought fitted the bill until last week when we tasted this.\u00a0 Monastrell is very much the main grape in Jumilla which is inland, west of Alicante.\u00a0 Enormously appealing ripe red and spicy black fruits abound, with just a gentle grip of tannin.\u00a0 Fabulous finish and a typically Spanish red \u2013 works with all manner of food choices as well as being fantastic on its own!<\/p>\n Greywacke Wild Sauvignon 2013 (\u00a325.99) <\/strong>we have been meaning to taste this wine from Kevin Judd for a while now.\u00a0 Barrel fermented using wild yeasts this is an intricate Sauvignon Blanc with fabulous texture and a lingering savoury finish.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t write a huge, long tasting note when we tried it \u2013 very elegant, two ticks<\/em> \u2013 which is short but says everything it needs to say, we reckon!<\/p>\n So, come by and try some wine and buy some beer and celebrate the fact that February has arrived and we no longer need to be abstemious!<\/p>\n Hang about, doesn\u2019t Lent start next week…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Thank God that\u2019s over.\u00a0 January doesn\u2019t make anybody happy.\u00a0 Except, perhaps, the taxman who takes his pounds of flesh both on a personal level, on a VAT level and on a corporation level.\u00a0 Any money we earnt in December we got to look at in the account for just over 3 weeks, […]<\/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-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}