Champagne by Half...or Magnum...

Ladies and Gentlemen,

            Having winged a House Champagne offer or two to you in the last few months, always in Bottles, I thought about time to offer you the Little & Large version - Half-Bottles and Magnums. As with the Gosset Bottles we had about a year ago, these both come with additional bottle-age having been cellared longer than usual. A treat in other words. We should have these in stock on Friday. The Magnums are in individual card boxes and we sold these pretty quickly pre-Christmas last year as they make quite a convenient present.

            With the Taramasalata Wars (how many A’s can you get in one word?!) and parts of Europe descending to Monty Python like scenes, Champagne is arguably the perfect mental tonic.

With extra bottle-age:

Gosset “Brut Excellence” Non Vintage Champagne £ 16.95 per Half Bottle

Gosset “Grande Réserve” Non Vintage Champagne £ 97.00 per Magnum

“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars” – Oscar Wilde

Champagne it is then!

Weekly Indulgence:

24 Bottles available:

(by the case or individually)

Textbook lush, gamey, fleshy, seductive and perfectly mature Margaux…

Château Brane-Cantenac 1985

Margaux 2ème Grand Cru Classé

at £ 59.00 per Bottle

Silly Season:

However mind boggling it is that there is no end to space and how many planets there are all around us, equally mind boggling is that each and every snow flake is a unique geometric pattern. How one can tell 20 feet down on a Peruvian mountain compared with an Aspen slope is beyond me but if they really are all unique, quite remarkable. Don’t forget, “Frozen Planet”, BBC1 tonight, 9.00 p.m. Worth a butcher’s.

Is it really any surprise that the City of Westminster is extending payment charges (and thus potential fines) to evenings and Sundays? For years, these people have been taking six figure salaries by simply treating the majority of ordinary hard working visitors and customers and clients and families of residents and businesses as, well, criminals. For every M.P. that was dispatched to jail of late, I strongly believe that ten-fold from Local Councils should be thus scrutinized and duly dispatched. I ask, have any of you ever had a parking ticket quashed with a letter out-of-the-blue, from the Head of Parking, saying that it has been cancelled on a technicality? Not when I asked about that but immediately after I requested (under the Freedom of Information Act 2000) how much revenue had been raised at a particular junction and what changes to signposting had been instigated after initial complaints that the signage was misleading and inadequate. A few days later, a letter letting me “off the hook”. Smell a rat? A whole damn lot of them. City of Westminster, take thousands in local rates and top up by treating their customers as criminals to be duly mugged on a daily basis.

I don’t know what Angela Merkel is up to? I thought it was our job to mention zee war, not theirs. He was able to ride financial and sex scandal time and again but I think Silvio Berlusconi’s final demise was probably down to him announcing that he was about to release an album, accompanied by a traffic warden. Some things really are just too much.