Isn’t it a bit late in the day for devine papal intervention?!

I’m going 3-2 Spurs. COYS! #TheMightySpurs

Many thanks Andy. Will check ‘em out. The wines I’m proposing are not in question. 😅. It’s just finding the right table.

Other highlights.

What are Alpine wines?

Silly answer.. heroic grapes that grow on mountain slopes so steep they need crampons and oxygen masks.

These wines are raised at altitudes where winemakers have to fight off altitude sickness, rogue chamois and the occasional yodeler. 😉

Bit of a stretch but I like your style! 💪🏼

Duck butcher’s address please! £1.50 a leg? Wowzer! I’m not v far from Kilburn and I’m IN. 👍🏼🦆🍷

Looks right up my Greek Strasse.👍🏼

In other news.. likely I’ll be hosting a wine dinner for Capital IWFS ‘Modern Greek Wines’ in Central London May-ish next year. Need an atmospheric private room in Greek resto. Any ideas?! 🙏🏼

Hard agree Mark. 💪🏼💯

Premium resto mark ups on wine are now daft.

Food mark ups are getting dafter.

2 Beef Wellingtons
1 Cauliflower cheese bakey side dish
1 bottle fizzy water
2 coffees
1 corkage
1 15% service charge (vg service)

= £198

Resto barely 1/4 full on a Fri.

Lower prices ‘a bit’ & get bums on seats?

The short answer is greed!

I didn’t ask but it’s v silly isn’t it?

Tbh their red still wines for circa £42 a bottle number maybe 3?

Perhaps a Malbec, a Touriga Nacional & erm something else I forget style of but not necessarily wines you’d really want to put in your mouth unless forced as one might be with polite company.

Ha ha hilarious!

A classic ‘chapeau’. 💪🏼

I’ve probably got a low pain threshold as I tend to read on for ‘any useful nugget’..

Ha ha so true!

And much like wine tasting, sometimes a sniff may suffice without actually putting the questionable wine in one’s mouth.

So a brief scan of a wine article’s opening para is usually enough to know if further reading is a good investment in time and sanity!

Not I! Hugh Johnson.

Being kind in wine can sometimes be challenging but being an arse can be so ‘natural’ for some.

I see a fair bit of arsy-ness in my part time job in wine. Usually the higher up the supposed wine food chain the more arsy-ness.

And lots from ones with no formal wine education.

V wise! As Hugh Johnson would say when he came across a wine that may not have be to his liking, ‘It is a wine style that I am yet to fully appreciate’. A real gentleman in the true meaning of the word. Behind every wine is generally a family and perhaps the same principle may apply to wine writing?

Ha ha a dodgy typo there, Mrs VdP not Mrs VdV, as that’s Spurs’ outstanding centre back who knows how to score a worldie with ten touches..

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I kid you not..

Mind you the chap lived up to the back of the jacket..! 😂