Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
Lovely, lovely, lovely, thank you very much.\u00a0 Christmas was fab, New Year\u2019s Eve was an appropriately late night and having the first few days of 2017 away from the grindstone was marvellous – how about you?<\/p>\n
However, we are now back to the aforementioned grindstone.\u00a0 Christmas decorations have come down, apart, of course, from the really obvious one that we won\u2019t notice until mid February but that\u2019s almost as an important part of the tradition as the big day itself.\u00a0 We\u2019ve even seen some customers \u2013 our first day back we mainly sold Champagne and fine wine, belated gifts allegedly but we think that more than one of these was a case of letting the good times roll, just a little longer!\u00a0 We\u2019ve looked at some sales figures but not too forensically \u2013 unsurprisingly Prosecco was our best selling fizz but, overall, Champagne outsold sparkling wine in December \u2013 as it should do.\u00a0 Hepple Gin was still our best selling spirit, maintaining category dominance for a full year now and, as we have been predicting all year, our best seller overall, January to December, was Chateau de L\u2019Aumerade Cru Class\u00e9 Rose from Provence and at a canter.\u00a0 Not a bad shopping basket that though \u2013 Rose for the summer, Prosecco for weekdays, Champagne for weekends, high days and holidays and Gin for 5pm \u2013 make mine a large one.<\/p>\n
As you can imagine we are fully eschewing abstinence (tautology, perhaps?), certainly when it comes to alcohol \u2013 be a bit like being a vegan butcher really \u2013 although speaking of veganism, Wayne has fully immersed himself in Veganuary, because he\u2019s clearly nuts and wants to become one, whereas right now all that Alex seems to have given up is telling the truth!<\/p>\n
But, we know some of you will be dry January-ing so if there was any way that we could encourage you all to visit 126 Arthur Road sometime over the next 25 days, how could we incentivise you.\u00a0 We\u2019re all done on mince pies, smoked salmon and boxes of Celebrations, so perhaps we must offer something with a little more wallet appeal in these dark cold days…<\/p>\n
6 for 5<\/strong><\/p>\n … of course!\u00a0 All we had to do was look at what we wrote in January 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 to find the appropriate mechanic.\u00a0 Yes folks, as now seems traditional in this small corner of southwest London, might we present to you the Park Vintners January<\/strong> 6 for 5 Offer<\/strong>.\u00a0 Similar to the ongoing Champagne and sparkling wine deal we offer all year, for January we will be extending this offer to wine too.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we include beer as well!\u00a0 But not spirits I\u2019m afraid, all the profit on those is reserved for HMRC, unfortunately it\u2019s our Duty.\u00a0 Oh, and it\u2019s only wines we have in stock currently.\u00a0 And a couple of the Champagnes aren\u2019t in the deal either but let\u2019s not get caught up in all the Ts & Cs, this is a glorious offer \u2013 6 bottles for the price of 5, mixable, a \u201816.66% off\u2019 straight-up deal, none of this \u2018cheapest bottle free\u2019 malarkey.<\/strong>\u00a0 Drive your cars down and fill your boots.<\/p>\n The other thing this deal doesn\u2019t apply to is Wine School<\/strong>, sorry.\u00a0 If 6 of you want to attend then I\u2019m afraid you\u2019ll all have to pay, although this might be a bit academic(!) since we don\u2019t have six spaces left.\u00a0 However we do still have some unallocated seats at the table so if, like our customers earlier in the week, you are still short of a Christmas gift then this could be just the ticket.\u00a0 Equally, again like our other customers earlier in the week, if you fancy this as a gift for yourself, don\u2019t let anyone judge you!<\/p>\n