Pulenta “Gran Corte” 2007 Mendoza, Argentina at £ 18.95 per Bottle
A substantial but ultra smooth, creamy and rich textured Argie red with that tell-tale distinctive Malbec flavour. All one needs is...FOR MORE GO TO http://www.huntsworthwine.co.uk/
Silly Season
Meandering through a Fulham playground (I was with my son!) on Sunday morning I overheard a track suited Mum call out to her son “Roman”. I thought that’s an unusual name for a white working class English boy (I surmised from the number of visible tattoos and piercings). Then realized we were within a few hundred yards of Stamford Bridge and of course and Roman Abramovich’s rear patio. Now pretty common (in both senses) to call a son after some legendary footballer or manager and maybe even the Club owner but surely could have been worse, could have lived next door to the Arsenal manager. What did you say your name was…?!
Meandering on we took a butcher’s at the new Union Market on Fulham Broadway. It seems like a honed down version of Whole Foods but some definite temptations for any foodies amongst you and I am tucking into their organic (crunchy!) peanut butter as I type. Then on to the adjacent Mall just at a time that emerging from the Tube station was a positive wall of rolls of undulating fat pressed against the all too tight-fitting mid-blue coloured Chelsea Football shirts. It was Chelsea at Home. We fled upstairs to Yo-Sushi passing Tex-Mex and Pizza Express and Fine Burger and they were packed with Chelsea Football shirts. Before, during and after there was not one football shirt in the Yo-Sushi unlike the burgers and pizzas. Perhaps that says as much about them as it does about me! Another real blast from the past: I lunched yesterday with the Antinori’s, so to speak, at Aspinall’s, the famous gambling den in Mayfair. Recently revamped but it still contained an opulent nod to the past, downstairs especially like some 1970’s grand drawing room, some very fine oil paintings, in amongst the average but an extraordinary juxtaposition with period details then the first gaming room with padded swing seats and slot machine like computer screens like a Harvester Pub. Quite bizarre. It was work, I did glean from this a really fabulous Chianti Classico Riserva 2004 which will be in stock later today or tomorrow. Not cheap at £ 32.00 but it really is tip-top and complex for Chianti.
“The language of these (Tony Blair) memoirs reflects that of a trendy Anglican priest, desperate to show himself as a regular guy, scattering exclamation marks life peerages for party donors…”- Max Hastings. Well, that puts me in my place then!!
With many of you avid or dyed-in-the-wool Kensingtonians you will know of Kensington Place and then of course Le Café Anglais where the larger than life Rowley Leigh moved to. They have opened a new Café & Oyster Bar and I am going next Tuesday to see how good it is or isn’t but they are doing a 25% off deal, food and better still, wine. Might be worth a trip if you are anywhere near Whitley’s. Person to ask for is Nicky. I am trying to strike a standard “corkage deal” with them for our customers and will let you know on our soon to be revamped web-site.
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