... it's English (and Welsh) Wine Week!
Apparently.
We're in good company...
Showing posts with label Little Ol' Wine Drinker Me. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Little Ol' Wine Drinker Me. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 May 2019
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Dangerous wine-making monks
A little divertissement courtesy of today's Telegraph:
Buckfast monks should be stripped of their charitable status, campaigners have said, following claims that they are profiting from selling "dangerous" wine.Ha!
The Charity Commission is launching a probe into the Buckfast Abbey Trust, where monks produce wine which has been associated with a surge in alcohol-related violence.
The National Secular Society - which works to challenge religious privilege - has claimed Buckfast Tonic Wine, known as "Buckie" in Scotland where it is most popular, is a scourge on society.
The drink has been linked to 6,500 reports of antisocial behaviour and violence in just two years. Yet Buckfast Abbey Trust, which produces Buckfast Tonic Wine, does not pay tax on its income because it is a charity, something which the National Secular Society claims is an "abuse of the charitable system"...
...The Trust justifies its charitable status by saying its aim is the "advancement of the Roman Catholic religion".
It certainly may be someone's idea of "religion" - not least Mr Dean Martin...
Cheers!
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
What's Ancient Egyptian for "Cheers"?
News that a crate of 5,000-year-old wine (undrinkable, apparently!) has been discovered in the tomb of the improbably named Pharaoh Scorpion I of Egypt prompted me to think of songs that have been inspired by this magnificent brew.
Avoiding the loathsome (Mistletoe and Wine), the banal (Summer Wine), the irritating (Red Red Wine) or the schmaltzy (Days of Wine and Roses), I came up with these two, both corkers!
Pekhret!
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