Globalisation and booze
Nice take on globalisation, the anti-capitalist snobbery of parts of the French establishment, and upstart wineries in Latin America and California’s Napa Valley, here. I did not realise that the Robert Mondavi winery was so hated by the French. I visited the Napa region with my fiance last September – during the runup to grape-picking time – and really loved it. We went to the Mondavi winery and brought a couple of bottles back, and I have nervously kept watch on ‘em whenever Andrew comes around the flat!
More than a decade ago, New World wines started to beat the best French red stuff in blind tastings. It is fair to say that the land of Montaigne and Charles de Gaulle has yet to recover.
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A few months passed before Rupert and I found ourselves heading back up the coast of Wales to investigate yet another oddity. This time it wasnt a place but a person that needed further investigation. Unlike Marshbier this little trek was not officially sanctioned. In truth Cardiff was not terribly keen to talk to me these days as they seemed unable to make a firm decision on what to do with the warped little town on the west coast of Wales.
As even the most crucial of decisions was made by committee it was hard to see anything being done for many a moon. One of the major problems was that no-one was willing to take a “fact-finding mission” of high mucky-mucks to the town, even though many involved did not believe my report on the matter. The office that I dealt with in Cardiff was in crisis and there soon would be a “reorganisation.” I got so fed up that I told them to get in touch when it was sorted. There is no danger of my losing my position, but I have made it clear that I was not willing to put up with bureaucratic muddles.
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Might I suggest Birmingham be twinned with Chicago? The Labour activists there in B’ham must be fans of Mayor Daley.
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