Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n
We Sell Ice.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s about all you need to know from us for this week\u2026<\/p>\n
What a wonderful week! Tennis in full flow, Tour de France in full flow, Cricket from Lords\u2019 murmuring on in the background, sunshine flooding through the window, five fridges spewing out heat as they go into overdrive but my god it\u2019s all worth it when we open their doors and feel the whoosh of chilled air in our faces\u2026.<\/p>\n
But this idyllic scene has not been without controversy.<\/p>\n
Kyrgios,Troicki, Dolgopolov, Klizan, Lopez, Tipsarevic and Potapova are amongst the \u2018retirees\u2019 in the first round of the tennis \u2013 all \u00a335,000 better off than they were on Monday morning.\u00a0 Off the court Mr McEnroe has left Serena alone for a bit and stuck the knife into Novak, whilst Bernard Tomic has told us how bored he is \u2013 good to see that the force is still strong with the tennis super-brat!<\/p>\n
Sagan knocks Cavendish off his bike.\u00a0 Or Cavendish hooks Sagan on his brake.\u00a0 Or they don\u2019t touch each other at all.\u00a0 Or they collide.\u00a0 Whichever story you support the upshot is one broken shoulder, one expulsion, a knocked back appeal and now CAS have rejected any further action \u2013 so he stays out of the Tour and the trolls write disgraceful things on twitter about Cavendish and his family \u2013 almost makes one yearn for the days of drug cheats and illicit train journeys.<\/p>\n
The cricket, as I said, murmurs on.\u00a0 The South Africans removed early wickets and then decided to have a bit too much pasta at lunch time resulting in a lot of runs coming England\u2019s way in the afternoon but remember, it\u2019s only day one and it\u2019s always ours to lose.<\/p>\n
Away from sport, the sun has properly started scrambling our journalists brains and resulted in a spate of what can only be fake news:\u00a0 Sir John Chilcot states that Tony Blair wasn\u2019t \u2018straight with the nation\u2019 in the lead up to the Iraq War; Donald Trump has sent some ill-judged tweets; and Glastonbury blames part of the zero hours controversy on the weather being too good?<\/p>\n
But whilst all this is going on in the big world, our little wine shop world continues to revolve happily.\u00a0 We have spotted the occasional star in a Wimbledon stamped car, we have sold a few bottles of posh wine to the pre-tennis luncheon crowd and we\u2019ve taken delivery of more new wines.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve taken on board two new white burgundys \u2013 Domaine Seguinot Bordet Chablis 2015 (\u00a318.99) <\/strong>and Jean Loron Vieilles Vignes Vir\u00e9-Cless\u00e9 2014 (\u00a317.99) <\/strong>both wines we tasted earlier in the year and now realised we needed to buy soon before Burgundy becomes as expensive as Bulgari.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve bought a delicious rioja \u2013 Torre Demontalbo Crianza 2014 (\u00a311.99)<\/strong> from Berry Bros & Rudd; we picked up a joyful Pinot Noir from Lombardia \u2013 Castello di Luzzano Umore Nero 2015 (\u00a315.99) <\/strong>and also picked up a stunning Nebbiolo with a bit of age on it – Vallana Gattinara 2007 (\u00a328.99)<\/strong>.\u00a0 They\u2019re all here, we\u2019re here, all we need now is you!<\/p>\n Wine School<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n It may feel like ages but September will be here before you know it and with it the start of the new term of Wine School.\u00a0 For those of you who don\u2019t know about this we\u2019ve attached some details but, in a nut shell, over the course of six weeks you will learn about and taste around 6o wines.\u00a0 You\u2019ll fall in love with Chardonnay once more, discover life beyond Malbec and be able to spot a corked wine from 5 paces.\u00a0 You\u2019ll do a lot more than this obviously and all for only \u00a3150.<\/p>\n Sign up today, before you go away.<\/p>\n Wednesday 4th<\/sup> October till Wednesday 15th<\/sup> November 2017 at 8pm. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a3150 per person.<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday 25th<\/sup> October off for half term.<\/em><\/p>\n Currently we have plenty of spaces left, so tell your friends too!<\/p>\n Tasting this weekend<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Having mentioned Jean Loron Vieilles Vignes Vir\u00e9-Cless\u00e9 2014 <\/strong>and Torre Demontalbo Crianza 2014<\/strong> let\u2019s get some of that in your glasses and you can let us know what you think!<\/p>\n Some of you may have noticed the absence of any rugby talk.\u00a0 For now, let\u2019s keep it that way.\u00a0 Next week though, depending on the result, you might hear more!<\/p>\n And just in case you didn\u2019t get it the first time:<\/p>\n We Sell Ice – How cool is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, We Sell Ice. And that\u2019s about all you need to know from us for this week\u2026 What a wonderful week! Tennis in full flow, Tour de France in full flow, Cricket from Lords\u2019 murmuring on in the background, sunshine flooding through the window, five fridges spewing out heat as they go into […]<\/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-884","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\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}