{"id":709,"date":"2016-03-24T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2016-03-24T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:37:38","slug":"easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Easter Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n<p>The scribbled message Alex wrote to me, on a scrap of paper he had clearly salvaged from the bin last night, had definite traces of Yoda:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018if approaching long weekend, shorter email must you send!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frankly, having just got back from holiday, my last couple of weeks have been one long weekend, but I don\u2019t think he was talking about that.\u00a0 I think he\u2019s referring to the upcoming Easter break which starts this evening and demands that you vacate the office until Tuesday morning, at least.\u00a0 Hurray, the longest free holiday of the year is here, so the last thing I want to do is distract you with lengthy epistles about upcoming tastings and sporting trivialities.<\/p>\n<p>So, as we haven\u2019t used this format for a while, let\u2019s bullet point things for speed and clarity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Friday \u2013 we are open from 11am until 3pm<\/li>\n<li>Easter Saturday \u2013 we are open from 10am until 6pm<\/li>\n<li>Easter Sunday and Easter Monday \u2013 we are closed<\/li>\n<li>Easter Tuesday (?) \u2013 we are open, as usual and for the foreseeable&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>England won the rugby \u2013 hooray!<\/li>\n<li>Afghanistan very nearly beat England in the cricket \u2013 hooray?<\/li>\n<li>Further to our Aldi comment last week, we discover Tesco selling a champagne for \u00a37.50<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s only a couple of quid more than the cost of the required volume of grapes to make a bottle of Champagne, off the vine, prior to any vinification<\/li>\n<li>We think the supermarkets are just super!<\/li>\n<li>Tasting a white and a red this weekend, unusually<\/li>\n<li><strong>Champalou Vouvray Sec 2013 &#8211; \u00a315.39<\/strong> \u2013 <em>\u2018very good indeed\u2019,<\/em> is what we wrote<\/li>\n<li><strong>Belisario Lacrima di Morro d\u2019Alba 2014 &#8211; \u00a313.49<\/strong> \u2013 <em>\u2018hailing from near Ancona, this is a bit special\u2019, <\/em>is just the start of an exceptional tasting note&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Come and see us today, tomorrow and Saturday but definitely not Sunday or Monday&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that\u2019s it for this week.\u00a0 Have a lovely Easter, hug your loved ones and stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Wine Lovers, The scribbled message Alex wrote to me, on a scrap of paper he had clearly salvaged from the bin last night, had definite traces of Yoda: \u2018if approaching long weekend, shorter email must you send!\u2019 Frankly, having just got back from holiday, my last couple of weeks have been one long weekend, [&hellip;]<\/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-709","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\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}