Miss Bouquet - …nose good wine!

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The previous owners of our house had a penchant for bold colours. Our kitchen work surfaces are sparkly Chelsea blue and our bathroom is puurrrrple! Needless to say both will be disappearing with time, starting with the bathroom which is being done next week. During the design decision making we keep being told that contrast is good so we’ve gone for water-turquoise tiles and a slate grey floor. Whether these opposites will look any good remains to be seen, there’s only a certain clarity you can get with two tile samples and a splodge of paint on the wall. .
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Contrast is also being tested in other news where I’m told we should be embracing sober-October in a last chance attempt to give the liver a break before the Christmas party season. This at the same time as London Cocktail Week kicks off. I’m not sure which to embrace first, I’m a bit weary of cocktails ever since my last attempt of ordering one was completely lost in translation. My grapefruit based tipple arrived a-la-goth only to find it was in fact grape fruit. As in Grape. Fruit. Of the red variety. .
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Talking of grapes. National Cocktail week’s got me thinking about National wine week/month. Whatever happened to that idea? I’ve backed it since its inception through the day job and here on my website but once the WSET distanced itself from the initiative as far as I last heard year two never got off the ground…. until I saw this www.nationalwineweek.info. What’s going on here then? There are no dates on it to tell us when we should all be ‘making time for wine’ which as far as a national week of anything goes is a bit pointless. I called the number on the website & no one answered, I tweeted them to offer my support but alas no reply. How’s that for contrast, national cocktail week have launched a party bus in a hop on hop off style, got coverage in the national press and all over the web. National Wine Week seem to have missed the mark… perhaps they’re the ones behind sober-October.