{"id":723,"date":"2016-04-29T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2016-04-29T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:53:48","slug":"this-could-be-as-good-as-summer-gets-so-lets-pretend-were-on-the-cote-dazur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"This could be as good as summer gets, so let\u2019s pretend we\u2019re on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you can lay the blame squarely at our door this week.\u00a0 Confident that the rain on Monday was the last dampness we\u2019d see until September, we decided to write this message on our blackboard outside:<\/p>\n

BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND \u2013 Is this the official start of the Ros\u00e9 season?\u00a0 I think it probably should be!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I think you all know what happened next \u2013 hail, snowstorms and stair-rod rain, blue skies interspersed with darker-than-night grey clouds, stiff breezes, all rounded off by a rumbling thunderstorm on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 Well, at least the storm cleared the humidity…!<\/p>\n

Living in the UK has made us stoic when faced with poor weather and it has been a pleasure to be selling plenty of Provence Ros\u00e9 all week in spite of the climate \u2013 it\u2019s the stiff upper lip, it\u2019s the blitz the spirit, it\u2019s the \u2018this could be as good as summer gets so let\u2019s pretend we\u2019re on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur\u2019.<\/p>\n

18 Celsius and bright sunshine in Cannes, as I write.<\/p>\n

Sand-buried heads<\/u><\/p>\n

Not sure if you\u2019ve noticed, it certainly has crept up on us, but this time next week we\u2019ll have a new Mayor.<\/p>\n

I know, what with all the jangling and jostling over the EU referendum that is taking place on Thursday 23rd<\/sup> June (after the group stages of the Euros have finished, any significance?) we seem to have paid less heed, or perhaps there has been less to heed, about who should be next in line to imprint their vanity project on London.<\/p>\n

Ken gave us the congestion charge, oyster cards, brought the prologue of the 2007 Tour de France to our streets and was the incumbent when London got awarded the Olympics.\u00a0 Nowadays, he\u2019s making headlines for slightly different reasons.<\/p>\n

Boris gave us bikes and banned boozing on the buses.\u00a0 He poked his big stick into the hornet\u2019s nest with his proposals for the Thames Hub Airport and then retreated to Uxbridge to be an MP and perhaps PM-in-waiting.<\/p>\n

So who is going to be next?\u00a0 Some selected candidates:<\/p>\n