Euripides said "Where there is no wine, there is no love" so he would have adored my Valentine's weekend. It started on Thursday, so a bit earlier than most and took us to Manchester to the annual wine tasting where there are around 400 wines on show. So just to make sure that our wine list has something for everyone I spent a lot of time tasting and tasting and hic..........tasting. It's a hard job but someone has to do it!!
Needless to say Friday was a bit blurry but had some bubbles to make myself feel better.
Valentines Day came without hearts and flowers from Carmine, whoever said Italians were romantic had obviously never met my other half. I hoped that even though there was a complete lack of commercial romance in my house he might choose to cook something special that he was thinking of putting on the menu and I wasn't disappointed. We had Grilled asparagus, topped with poached egg and Parmesan shavings, Fillet Steak with a creamy sauce that had apples and Truffles through it, and then I had to laugh at dessert...........for me it was Crème Caramel but the Italian version with rum called "Tremarello" which literally translated means wobbly. And at that point I most definatley was: with the starter we had a bottle of Pink Champagne from Lallier and with the main we had a robust Montepulciano D'Abruzzo from Terre del Aligi, which is made by personal friend Adriano Spinelli. It’s fantastic and was the last bottle we had brought back from Italy. I think we'll have to make an SOS call and get him to ship some over pronto.
Monday arrived all too soon with a whole new challenge, we set of to our marketing and Web development meeting in Dudley and although it was very constructive and informational I sat like a spare part when asked some basic questions................hands up who has heard of "Kerning"..............no me neither but seemingly its the space used between letters. Let's hope after that you will all like the new site and colours that we're hard at work developing.
The building works are coming along really well, the reception/work station desk is now in and they have started to construct the bench seating in the new bar area, I'm sure this will be the prefect place to have some after work drinks and will soon become the place to meet up in Wrexham especially as we are developing our Cocktail list..................Sex in the Sea anyone?? Luscious Lemon Fizz Bombs, a Goodnight Kiss or Morning Glory.................thank heaven's we have bedrooms for those incapable of returning home!!
Can't wait for it all to be completed and will have more design news for my next blog
Love 'n' stuff
Colette
xoxo
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