Happy birthday @Marchbanks !
just outside Fortnum and Masons
Popped into town and picked up a copy of Bob Stanley and Pete Wigg's "Fell from the Sun" down tempo and after hours 1990-91. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B28HTL1G/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
Noticed that the Berwick Street Co-op was selling "Close Encounters" Perrin Chateauneuf du Pape. Bought a bottle as I'd never seen it before.
A few hundred meters into my Boris bike ride home, just outside Fortnum and Masons, there was a horrid thud as my rucksack escaped from the bag holder! I thought it was held in securely by the bungee cord but no!
Anyway tonight I'll try a bottle of Tosone Nero d'Avola, not because I'm contemplating contacting the Cosa Nostra to take a contract out on anyone but I'm hoping that it will conjure up some Sicilian sunshine to listen to the chill out tunes.
I suppose I could also dig out Blood on the tracks. May also dream up some song titles, "Broken dreams on Piccadilly" etc etc.
Oh yes!The CNdP was smashed?
I agree about the wine with/without food conundrum. To add to the confusion, would wine on an empty stomach cause a drowsy numbness to o’er come the senses, to the extent that differences between wines would be more difficult to determine?
Is that 2015 ? As their top wine it is probably only just opening the drinking window.
There is one food wine combo that I love -- really heady Italian reds, chiantis etc, and dried fruit and nuts.
And smoked salmon sandwiches and cotes du rhone.
And finocchiona and Bordeaux rose
I feel really, really dim for not knowing immediately who you quoted there.
Damn. Something deep in the cobwebs of my mind suggested Keats. (But then I would say that, wouldn’t I.)Keats, Ode to a Nightingale, misquoted from memory. He actually wrote:
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: