{"id":606,"date":"2010-05-18T23:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T23:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T23:49:32","slug":"day-1-london-wine-trade-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/day-1-london-wine-trade-fair","title":{"rendered":"Day 1, London wine trade fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long and busy day at the London International Wine Fair.<\/p>\n<p>It began early, and Shrek nearly died. He&#8217;s our younger cat. As regular readers know, we have a dog, RTL (Rosie The Labradoodle). She joined the family after the two cats, one of whom we adopted from Eric Clapton (the musician), and the other of which we got as a kitten (that&#8217;s Shrek).<\/p>\n<p>RTL wants to eat the cats, so they live upstairs. RTL is restricted to the ground floor. This morning, as I came down at 6 am to fetch the pet food, Shrek followed me into the kitchen. RTL woke up and headed to the kitchen also. RTL saw Shrek and mounted a passionate pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Shrek headed for safe ground on the worktop. There was a stand-off, which ended when I chucked RTL out of the back door. It was a close thing. Why can&#8217;t they all live together in peace?<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at Excel in time for an 0800 meeting with Elevage, the company I am involved with that is organizing the next sparkling wine symposium. This was followed with a tasting of Touriga Nacional that I was conducting for ViniPortugal, and then some tasting (including Equipo Navazos Sherries and Tapanappa). In the afternoon I was chairing the oxygen in wines debate, which went really well.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by a wonderful dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chutneymary.com\">Chutney Mary<\/a> in Chelsea. It&#8217;s a serious, high-end Indian restaurant. The wine list is really good, with a modest but broad enough selection, well chosen for matching with Indian food.<\/p>\n<p>Now for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long and busy day at the London International Wine Fair. It began early, and Shrek nearly died. He&#8217;s our younger cat. As regular readers know, we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}