Thinking Ahead

Lots on and lots to do.  the wine trade is going well with plenty of new business coming in and many reams of paper to type out.  But there are several other things on my mind.

The Frogeye Sprite is far from finished and has hit a bit of a dead end with the paint job being 5 weeks away and I am anxious to get that old project underway.  As for my other passions in life, I feel as though I have lost touch with them.

The rock climbing has taken a rather solid back seat at the moment but  I am consciously reminding myself that it is something that brings a lot of stability to ones life on the whole.  I miss being outside as a whole but who can complain when your office day gets interrupted by  a family esq voice booming from down stairs 'Ben'.......'Ben', 'Yes', 'Wine tasting'.  

I tried some South African wines today which included some more of the Indaba wines, including there sharp citrus Chenin Blanc, their luscious and delicious Merlot and there slightly disappointing Bordeaux Blend 'Mosaic', not bad just not as appealing after tasting the Merlot.

After taking them both home, the home crowd agreed.  The Bouchard Finlayson Pinot Noir on the other hand may be £23 odd squid but is out of this world, one of my first 'wow' moments in the wine industry (still young and un-educated but)!

       

The Lovely Vinyard's of Domaine Boucabeille

Another Day, Another Dollar

There has always been one thing that has confused me to do with human nature...urges.

Why do we have the urge or desire to do what we do?  I always think about the modern urges that we get such as being warm and not going outside (which baffles me as the outdoors are only the best place to be).  I say this because of a conflict of 'urges'.  Spending a day in the office writing up spread sheets was not hard or boring but is that because I get to be involved in the wine industry or is it because I love those spread sheets?

I get urges to go climbing, to get drunk on proper drinks like Ale and Wine.  I also get urges to go on adventures which I will post the plans for a few of them on here soon.

What urges do you get that seem foreign to other people? 

It Takes 2

My second attempt at my Climbing, Outdoors and Wine blog shall commence.

I hope people will like it and I hope I get enough the same amount of time on it as I think I will do in my head.

Here goes nothing

Half way up our 280 meter route in North Wales