I "eagerly" opened it and scanned the, "now familiar" pages of huge oak barrels in dusty cellars, a picture of Robert M Parker who's mere "scoring" of a wine can make it or break it. On the final page a reminder of the price of a particular case wine in 2008 being £5,600 and in 2011 being £45,00.
Now don't get me wrong this is not a "sour grapes" (lol - - - sorry!) story. But wasn't it about 2011 when the wine market dived and doesn't seem to have yet recovered. See my Blog "Wine as an investment - - - 20 20 hindsight says No" dated 21-7-2013
I regaled the blog recently about being approached by one of the companies I dealt with about my "exit Strategy" from wine investment to highlight the appalling admin/customer service having already sold my holdings back to them!
So! then why was I being approached by another Wine Company about selling my wine?
The text does mention investing but the screaming "headline" is to sell it. I imagine one of the "sales people" has jumped from one ship to another and "inadvertently" kept some of the previous companies contacts one way or another. My take on this is still, " Wine as an investment - - - 20 20 hindsight says NO!"
Interesting point here the letter is signed by a "Benjimin Cazaly". Try googling the name here's one interesting link which pops up!
Yes why shouldn't Nicholas Parsons not receive a knighthood? The main headline in todays Express though is, for once rather poignant. With the cost of heating even a small cottage like ours soaring the story will no doubt be played out many times in the coming months. We often wax lyrical about our purchasing our log burner years ago and being even luckier to have a friend with wooded land which needed clearing!
Our planned Damson picking companion Vanessa from peak organics couldn't make it yesterday so we pottered around cleaning greenhouse windows and doing other gardening jobs that required attention.
With the wind howling but the sun shining late afternoon, we sat in the little greenhouse at the top of the garden with a bottle of wine - - - most rewarding!
At one point during the afternoon Sainsbury the Tabby joined us as we sat admiring the fish in the pond. Sainsbury sat on top of one of the filters and made a huge leap up onto the top of the fence.
He then realised he was, "rather high up" and decided the only way down was to travel along the fence to somehow get down. "A look of concentration or what!"
As he made his way up the fence he set his eye on jumping to the top of the shed!
and then stalked around the birdfeeders looking very smug! So funny!
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