Well with this swelter of weather; holidays; weddings; state sponsored assassinations; sporting highs and lows it has been a positively (or not) momentous few weeks. As such I thought it best to keep a low profile and let you sip in peace upon your Piña Colada upon some perhaps overpriced European tiled terrace where the weather was probably not as good as here. Back with a vengeance however. Summer white; House Champagne, as ever, Bordeaux; Californian, and on.
Talking of Euro Trash I remember sailing around the beautiful coast and waters of Costa Smeralda on the north east edge of Sardinia. If you stayed on or in the water it was beautiful. The second you stepped onto terra firma, basically natural beauty with an unwarranted face lift. Shame. Nonetheless I did come across Sardinia’s greatest red wine, Turriga from Argiolas which is at t’other end of this rugged island. Being the best it is expensive (£ 43.00 for the 2005 Vintage) but thankfully Argiolas indulges us at the other end of the scale with a delightful and well made (and very well-priced) summer white, a Vermentino called Costamolino.
Costamolino Vermentino 2009 Argiolas, Sardinia at £ 12.00 per Bottle
£ 11.50 per Bottle by the Case
£ 11.00 per Bottle for 2 cases
Lovely, simple, clean, but with great mouthfeel and with impressive minerality.
Perfect summer offering, sufficiently textured to cope with food but smooth, easy and will slip down so easily on its own.
Stock is due in tomorrow.
Thursday 11th May – EARLY CLOSING
A tad unorthodox but we will close early tomorrow (6.00 p.m.) as both Henry and I happen to be going to Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” at the O2 tomorrow.
An indulgence I know but had to be done! I will make up for it with later openings another day.
R. & H. Lamotte Premier Cru Champagne from Champillon
Arrival of our newest and latest House Champagne (one of three!) in Bottles; Magnums; and Half-Bottles, all in stock from tomorrow.
Bordeaux 2010 – En Primeur
My Initial Tasting Notes will be e-mailed out to those regulars or those who have expressed an interest tomorrow.
We still have an incredibly long way to run in this En Primeur Campaign so trust me, no rush, yet.
Weekly indulgence:
A separate e-mail has gone out today entitled “California Dreaming” and that is an expensive but tasty offering, four red and four white, including such exalted names as Duckhorn Vineyards; Kistler; Peter Michael Winery; Stag’s Leap, amongst others. These range from £ 22.00 to £ 80.00 a Bottle. A bit beyond the realms of our weekly e-mail but if tip-top New World numbers are your bag, please advise and I’ll duly forward this one off e-mail.
Weekly rant:
Well pip pip for Pippa Middleton, except that I don’t quite get it. Yes she acquitted herself very well on the big day and I can’t fault her for that and yes a teeny weenie bit racy rear view for two billion prying eyes but let’s be honest about this, one is surely going to find just as attractive a Sloane at each and every Sloaney party across the land. Or is sychophancy because she is a Royal-in-law? Henry was also at Marlborough College and I would love to tell you what Pippa did but alas Henry has just slapped a super injunction on the topic! And I have only ever twittered once. So you’ll have to fill in the blanks I’m afraid. Or ask Henry yourself.
Sitting on the 28 Bus with the great unwashed commuting into work one does overhear some engaging but more often tedious and tawdry little stories as someone with a low I.Q., and occasionally even modestly intelligent, is prepared to blurt out every little detail of their or someone else’s realtionship. After Osama Bin Laden was double tapped by some seals, obviously ones that hadn’t been clubbed by some Canadians, it was staggering how many people believe in a conspiracy theory. Overhearing would be the wrong word but being forced to listen to some 16-17 year old girl struggling in English (though her native tongue) to tell her mate that she don’t believe it that Bin Laden’s dead. Let’s think about this for a second. Osama is alive and kicking and his biggest coup would be to appear holding a newspaper dated 2nd of May onwards. A digital image, a Polaroid even. Utter humiliation for America and the World would find it hard to trust any official line for perhaps the next twenty years. Any photograph...? Next, that he was already dead and this was just staging due closure. Possible but if you are going down that route, to choose a property inside of Pakistan, minutes from the Capital, in pretty much a military zone with so many variables (as we know from Jimmie Carter’s Tehran attempt), that could only be described as dumb and dumber. A remote cave would have been the choice. Obama acquitted himself well, though I think he badly delayed when he should have been emphatic and immediate about categorically not showing images of Osama’s demise, unlike the dumb and even dumber wish of the Head of C.I.A. in wanting to show the world. No shadowy pictures of the Yeti or Elvis Presley flipping burgers in Croydon but a simple full-on picture of Been Laden’d holding a current daily newspaper. If he is not actually dead, surely not that difficult is it? Now J.F.K., that’s a different...
Now A.V. might work in a restaurant. If you don’t have the sirloin I’ll have the loin chops... What a pointless exercise otherwise. It was hard to find anyone to eloquently express the merits. Even on the B.B.C. where on expects a certain gravitas and minimal standards at least, one lady (I think politician, can’t remember) said that A.V. is really worthwhile because “some people might want to vote for a second person”. “...some people...might...” Some people might not. That is not a reason. I think the words Apathy and Vague spring to mind. Which Countries have this again?
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