Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
So, I was lying in bed early on Thursday morning, listening to the thunder, listening to the dog scratching away beneath me in a vain attempt at escape, listening to someone snoring, listening to an incessant car alarm, listening to my daughter counting the seconds between lightning and crashing and I found myself pondering, is this rain a good thing?<\/p>\n
Being English, we\u2019re used to weather, particularly the damper end of the spectrum.\u00a0 We can do rain with the best of them and in some perverse way we revel in it.\u00a0 It\u2019s our weather, we like it as it is and we like the status quo \u2013 if we joined a more sunny European climate, well, we wouldn\u2019t be British any more would we.<\/p>\n
Equally, if we acknowledge that these storms will continue, are we happy for more and more storms to cross the channel and add more atmospheric pressure to an already overcrowded storm market.<\/p>\n
However, there are also plenty of positives to this wet weather.\u00a0 These storms have originated on the European mainland and have crossed the channel to help us survive.\u00a0 The rain feeds the earth; the rain clears the atmosphere of its fervent humidity; the rain washes the streets that often we don\u2019t have the inclination to clean.\u00a0 We have been part of this weather system for a good while now, why change?<\/p>\n
But can we feed the earth too much?\u00a0 If it rains too much don\u2019t we risk becoming too cold?\u00a0 When does washing the streets become flash flooding and thus damaging to the infrastructure?\u00a0 How can we control this weather?\u00a0 Would it be better to stick a big umbrella over the British Isles or would the investment be better used stopping the weather at borders far from our own?<\/p>\n
Fitfully, and unresolved, I fell asleep at around three.<\/p>\n
In the morning, I took my daughter to school and she put another spanner in the cognitive works.\u00a0 She likes the stormy weather during the day when she can see it clearly, can understand its positive attributes really quite enjoy it, but at night, uncertainty creeps in, she feels nervous and wants the thunder to go away, now.<\/p>\n
Pondering if all this could be seen to be a metaphor for something, I strolled towards the polling station and marked an, albeit uncertain, X in a box…<\/p>\n
Sun over the yardarm<\/u><\/p>\n
We now know what the \u2018weather\u2019 is going to be like for the next however many years and thank god that\u2019s all behind us.\u00a0 If you voted for sun but got rain, even if you voted for sun and got sun, we all need to move on now and focus on what\u2019s really important \u2013 wine from Europe.<\/p>\n
This weekend sees us wrapping up our two week long Sherry Festival.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been pouring loads of lovely libations and will continue to do so.\u00a0 Open for savouring are:<\/p>\n
Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla Classic Dry Manzanilla<\/em><\/p>\n Equipo Navazos Fino En Rama<\/em><\/p>\n J.C. Guti\u00e9rrez Colos\u00eda Amontillado Seco<\/em><\/p>\n Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla Antique Amontillado<\/em><\/p>\n Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla Classic Oloroso<\/em><\/p>\n Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla Antique Palo Cortado\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n And, now we have it back in stock, from Chipiona,<\/p>\n Bodegas C\u00e9sar Florido Moscatel Dorado<\/em><\/p>\n Come in, taste them all and marvel at the quality and value erupting from the south of Spain!<\/p>\n Wine School<\/u><\/p>\n Guess who\u2019s back, back again, Wine School\u2019s back, tell a friend!<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019ve got dates in the diary, we\u2019ve got spittoons polished, we\u2019ve even got some new jokes…<\/p>\n The course takes place on Wednesdays at 8pm on 28th<\/sup> September and goes through until 9th<\/sup> November \u2013 it\u2019s a six week course and the keen calendar watchers amongst you may have already realised that this is a seven week period.\u00a0 You are correct \u2013 Wednesday 26th<\/sup> October is a week off, half term if you will.<\/p>\n Anyway, over the 6 weeks you\u2019ll learn about white wine, red wine, a bit of ros\u00e9, faulty wines, a bit of wine and food matching, a jot of sweet wine and of course, sparklers.<\/p>\n If this sounds up your strasse and your boisson du th\u00e9 then drop us a line and let us know.\u00a0 It costs \u00a3150 per person and payment of this will ensure you definitely have a place at the table.\u00a0 Go on; learn about wine, you know you want to!<\/p>\n \u00a0Wet Weather Warning<\/u><\/p>\n Accepting that it\u2019s already weather worthy of Noah and his crew, we thought we would remind you that the Wimbledon Park Primary School Fair is this Sunday from 12pm until 3pm \u2013 Alex will be there with a stall, some gin, some wine and perhaps something else, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n If that wasn\u2019t enough to keep it raining, the start of the tennis on Monday will ensure umbrella sales rocket whilst parasols plummet.\u00a0 Remember, it was here that you heard it first.<\/p>\n And now it is time for us to let you get back to work.\u00a0 Have a lovely afternoon, see you this evening for a glass of something cold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, So, I was lying in bed early on Thursday morning, listening to the thunder, listening to the dog scratching away beneath me in a vain attempt at escape, listening to someone snoring, listening to an incessant car alarm, listening to my daughter counting the seconds between lightning and crashing and I found […]<\/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-740","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\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}