Some years ago I came across the delightfully unusual and minerally White Crozes-Hermitage from the impressive Alain Graillot. It slipped off the radar but just last week we both tried the current vintage of his red from the 2008 Vintage and immediately decided to take it back into stock.
Crozes-Hermitage 2008 Alain Graillot, Northern Rhône at £ 21.75 per Bottle
Textbook Northern Rhône with the immediate hit of spice and floral qualities yet being a Crozes-Hermitage rather than a full-fledged Hermitage this manages to exhibit a real deft touch.
Gentle, pretty, elegant, yet sufficiently expressive. Great mouthfeel, dry Provençal herbs, delicate sweet fruit and just sits easily.
72 Bottles currently in stock.
Silly-season
I was surprised that Sir Fred Goodwin of RBS fame had gone to the trouble to get an injunction so that the newspapers no longer call him a Banker. Well I suppose Private Eye will just have to come out of the closet and think of another word then. Fred, you should have learnt from Jacqui Smith and Rachel Johnson, just, just, don’t!
Not so silly this week with the sobering news emerging from Japan and the effects still rippling outwards. Still, I was amazed that one of the newspapers covered just the day before a story that the close proximity of the moon might indeed trigger an earthquake of a 9.00 Richter magnitude. Quite eerie.
Making sense of the Census. Not as bad as I feared but a few curiosities. In asking if you look after incapacitated family members the tick box culture offers you 1-19 hours for the first option. I mean, truly, what use is that range? 1 hour is a gesture, 19 hours is (for someone in the Public Sector), more than half a working week. Next they ask how you travel to work but you can only tick one box (underground / bus / taxi / walk / drive / lift…). In truth I use almost all of the options so I couldn’t resist striking a line through the question and adding my notes. Conveniently there is a two page flier giving the 57 different languages that the Census is available in. That doesn’t surprise me in London other than there were languages I have simply never heard of, have you – Igbo / Lingala / Luganda / Pahari / Pashto / Shona / Sinhala / Tigrinya / Yoruba. Amazingly Henry actually had heard of two of these.
Is William Hague simply the Conservative version of Neil Kinnock? However well meaning he is, it just ain’t going to happen is it?
Though approximately one third of shops in Kensington Church Street actually own the forecourt or strip of land immediately outside of their shop our local Kensington & Chelsea Council have still made a nuisance of themselves by sending in officials and ordering and threatening with resultant fines if sandwich boards etc are not removed. Treating us like errant schoolchildren where often the patch in question is actually ours! Though Church Street is incredibly quiet as far as foot traffic is concerned the Council insists that this stance was due to obstructions with obvious health-and-safety concerns. Yesterday I e-mailed all 54 of RBK&C Borough’s Councillors to inquire as to “which idiot” therefore decided to site eight metal hooped bicycle stands right by the entrance of Notting Hill Tube station and in doing so potentially reduced the width of the pavement by a good 40-50% and where it is narrowest and the foot traffic is a considerable multiple of a quiet street like ours?! I have had one reply only thus far – from a Councillor on a skiing trip in Colorado. Mmm.
Personally I thought merely mentioning Arsenal’s exit from three Cup competitions in a matter of days would be somewhat cruel. I really do. Henry however disagrees and says you can’t be too cruel to an Arsenal supporter. A good fifty-fifty that England’s walking wounded will be on a plane home tomorrow night but I do have to congratulate the Irish on spanking the ball round the park as if it were a football.
Tuggy Meyer
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