Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
So, how does it feel now that the dust has settled and the wonderful reality is starting to set in?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m referring, of course, to that romantic proposal you received on Valentine\u2019s Day last week!\u00a0 Did he get down on bended knee?\u00a0 Had she made your favourite pudding?\u00a0 Were you in the pub?\u00a0 Up a mountain?\u00a0 On a beach?\u00a0 Was there a ring at the ready or was it an impromptu number fashioned out of paper clips?\u00a0 And did you say yes?!<\/p>\n
Assuming that the answer was in the affirmative and that everyone has been told (heaven forfend we spill the beans before Aunt Phillida knows) then now you have a whole set of new challenges to face.<\/p>\n
The prospect of a dress that costs more than your student loan debts and will hold its value in much the same way.<\/p>\n
A tailored morning suit that will be prove to be a superb investment over and over again when you go to Ascot and the Opera and all the other society events during the season.\u00a0 Except you don\u2019t go to Ascot and you had the suit fitted when you had been going to the gym for months in preparation for the wedding and now, well, now you don\u2019t seem to find as much time for weights and treadmills.<\/p>\n
Soon, you\u2019ll become an expert in marquee dimensions and hard wearing carpet; in flowers and place settings; in etiquette; in invitation writing; in smoked salmon mousse and many, many forms of chicken; in canap\u00e9s; in cakes, too; perhaps even in wine and Champagne?<\/p>\n
What we do<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s here that we can help.\u00a0 In the hundred years since we joined the wine trade we have helped out with all manner of weddings and their wines.\u00a0 Deliveries to restaurants, hotels, marquees, fields, barns, beach-houses \u2013 you name it, we\u2019ve rolled up in the trusty Volvo with a bootfull of red, white and fizz, some beer and a couple of nice bottles for the best man and ushers.\u00a0 It\u2019s what we do.<\/p>\n So if you, or anyone in your near vicinity, are planning on getting married soon and are looking for top notch wedding wines, we really should be involved.\u00a0 We\u2019ll match wines to food and to budget; we\u2019ll then arrange a tasting of these potential wines with you, which is always the fun part; we\u2019ll advise on quantities and potential pitfalls and we\u2019ll deliver in the trusty Volvo.\u00a0 It\u2019s what we do!<\/p>\n What else do we do?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n We run a shop \u2013 as I think most of you know!\u00a0 The other day a chap called Tom walked in to this shop of ours and we had a chat.\u00a0 Tom is a product designer and has come up with a rather novel and interesting approach to wine preservation that rather appealed to us.\u00a0 He was going to send us some notes about his product but I suspect is up to his eyeballs in silicon and glass somewhere in his lab, so I\u2019ll try and give you the gist.<\/p>\n In simple terms, it\u2019s a redesigned bottle that you pour your bottle of wine into.\u00a0 You then pour and drink from this, as you would normally, and when you have finished for the night but not finished the wine, there is a clever plunger action that expels all the air, thus preserves the wine.\u00a0 I tasted a bottle that had been in this contraption for 7 days against a bottle of the same wine that had been opened 5 minutes previously and I have to say there was barely anything between the two wines \u2013 in fact the 7 day old one I slightly preferred!<\/p>\n The product is still being road tested, which is where you come in.\u00a0 On 10th<\/sup> March, on the Friday evening, Tom will be in with a wine that has been in his product for 7 days and we will taste it against a wine we will have opened that evening \u2013 the same wine, of course.\u00a0 Ideally, we\u2019ll do a white and a red dependent on how many prototypes Tom has available and it would be great if you could come and help us taste the wines and give your opinion.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll remind you again over the next few weeks but thought it might be good to introduce you to the concept now.<\/p>\n It\u2019s called eto, by the way, and here\u2019s the website: www.etowine.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\n <\/td>\n eto | wine preservation decanter<\/a><\/p>\n