Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
You can imagine my surprise when wandering around the shop, putting deliveries away, wondering what I might choose for a #winewednesday tipple, when a customer wished me a nice weekend. Weekend? I thought possibly someone had their days mixed up. Turns out it was me, as much as I love a Bank Holiday Monday it does confuse the week a little.<\/p>\n
With just a week to go before the Euro\u2019s kick off in Paris, it seems most of France is on strike. The oil refineries, fuel depots and railways are all having their difficulties, but it appears the airport workers have cancelled their plans to strike. It is unclear if this is because they couldn\u2019t get to work anyway!<\/p>\n
Whilst we\u2019re on the subject of footie, it seems transfer time for managers is upon us. Monk is in at Leeds, Di Matteo is in at Aston Villa and Pecchia (Benitez\u2019s No.2) is out at Newcastle, heading for the sunshine and opera in Verona. Koeman maybe in at Everton but maybe not.<\/p>\n
In tennis news, for that time is creeping up on us too, Andy Murray has Stan Wawrinka in the way of the French Open final probably against Djokovic who\u2019ll have played everyday this week! As for the ladies, difficult to imagine it won\u2019t be Serena.<\/p>\n
In proper sports, legend Eddy Merckx seems to be in a spot of bother over the alleged \u201csweetener\u201d to a contract as supplier of bicycles to the police in Anderlecht in 2006.<\/p>\n
The company building the velodrome in Rio has lost the contract after filing for bankruptcy protection. The velodrome, already with one cancelled event in its history, is 88% finished now with just logistical issues in laying the track. Nothing important then! Rio\u2019s city government expects to be finished in time.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t finish here without mentioning The Derby on Saturday. Our tips last year were fairly useless and I\u2019m slightly nervous of saying it won\u2019t be Frankie Dettori\u2019s mount (Wings of Desire) just to be proved wrong again, but\u2026I think Ulysses will beat him and Humphrey Bogart may be worth an each way!<\/p>\n
Cheese and Wine<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday 23rd<\/sup> June at 8pm. Only 2 places remaining! \u00a320 per person.<\/p>\n New or Back in stock<\/strong><\/p>\n We had a couple of bit\u2019s missing but just to let you know\u2026<\/p>\n Mimi Pink NV (\u00a312.99)<\/strong> is back in stock (6 for the price of 5 if you\u2019re entertaining!)<\/p>\n Southern Dawn Sauvignon Blanc (\u00a310.49) <\/strong>has wended its way up from Marlborough too.<\/p>\n Arndorfer Hand-Crafted Gruner Veltliner (\u00a313.99)<\/strong> is the wine I was quoted on so eloquently the other week. Don\u2019t tell Alex, he doesn\u2019t know I\u2019ve bought any yet!<\/p>\n Tasting This Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve had a look at the Beeb\u2019s weather app and it seems to promising warmer weather and a spot of sunshine over the weekend, no sign of it yet out of the back window (Wayne\u2019s weather app!). Nonetheless we shall through caution to the wind and choose a couple of wines suitable should cooking be done in the garden!<\/p>\n In the white corner Talmard Macon Uchizy (\u00a314.99)<\/strong> a cracking unoaked white from Southern Burgundy that we think will bring its own sunshine if the real thing doesn\u2019t show.<\/p>\n Red wise Some Young Punks Passion Has Red Lips (\u00a313.99)<\/strong> is a stonking blend of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon from McLaren Vale in Australia will go with all manner of char grilling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, You can imagine my surprise when wandering around the shop, putting deliveries away, wondering what I might choose for a #winewednesday tipple, when a customer wished me a nice weekend. Weekend? I thought possibly someone had their days mixed up. Turns out it was me, as much as I love a Bank […]<\/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-734","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\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}