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The little wine shop down the road closed last week. Wines of Distinction it was called, in Clapham. I do hope Mr B and I asking for wine for our wedding didn’t contribute to its failure, we haven’t bought a bottle for months….
The little wine shop down the road closed last week. Wines of Distinction it was called, in Clapham. I do hope Mr B and I asking for wine for our wedding didn’t contribute to its failure, we haven’t bought a bottle for months….
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Wines of Distinction isn’t the first to shut up shop and I doubt it will be the last but it marks a trend of the wider doom and gloom of the wine world which has seen the demise of several old favourites – Threshers, Unwins, Wine Rack, Nicolas, Oddbins. The good news is that a couple of them had enough brand value to be resurrected from the ashes. The best known and arguably the most loved of those is Oddbins. ………
What is it about age that makes us feel uncomfortable? Too old. Too young. Acting too old for one so young. Acting too young for one so old. The hot topic in the general press of course concerns a society that increasingly measures a person’s worth by their youth, or lack of it, which shouldn’t be much of an issue unless you’re a BBC TV presenter. Guess it’s lucky that I’m not. Guess I’m also lucky that for now anyway aging doesn’t bother me, for some reason I’m just enjoying the journey of getting older. But many of my friends are not, and judging by some wines I’ve tasted recently neither is the wine trade. 
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Last week Brother Bouquet and I went to the Damien Hirst exhibition at the Tate Modern. As a celebrated artist himself I was hopeful his artistic eye would help my understanding of the preeminent shark in formaldehyde as art.
