Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[Duncan Shaw]

 Got my step-daughter's wedding at Denbeigh's Vineyard in Surrey next Friday, so will be trying shit-loads of it 

[Steve67]

Got my step-daughter's wedding at Denbeigh's Vineyard in Surrey next Friday, so will be trying shit-loads of it 

Enjoy Duncan.  I live in Lightwater.

[Dogtanian]

Blue Nun is French, though, yes?

[PeterWithe]

Always thought it was German but I'm normally wrong.

[ChicagoLion]

Always thought it was German but I'm normally wrong.

Along with Liebfraumilch.
But Piat D or is French though.

 

[chrisw1]

la francais adore le piat d'or

[Bad English]

la francais adore le piat d'or

No they bleedin' don't!

[chrisw1]

la francais adore le piat d'or

No they bleedin' don't!

They must have thought we were such mugs in the 80's.

[Percy McCarthy]

Peace man. Fucks sake!

Jab.

Jab.

Someone jabs back.

‘Peace!’

Classic.

I think you are taking all of this a little too seriously.

Of course. My fault. I reacted badly.

Textbook.

I give up mate. We had an exchange about a point of grammar on which we disagreed. As it is my day, job I felt the desire to push the point. You were adamant that I was wrong and explained rightly that you too have an excellent grasp of English and have written books and other people say you are right too. I still argue that my vision of the grammar point in question is perfectly valid and have shown many examples of it.

Yes, I laboured the point and indeed teased you with it, bringing up examples of usage that illustrate my point. You obviously didn't appreciate this and reacted by reiterating your English credentials (which I have never doubted) and do you know what? I did feel you were telling me I don't know my job (I am not an encyclopaedia of grammar and linguistics but I will defend my views like you do) so I banged on about it a bit.
Now, I'm being accused of gaslighting, stalking and who knows what else. If you want to be like that then there's nothing I can do about it but I thing it is all a bit out of proportion. There have been plenty of people having ding-dongs on here over the years and people end up getting over it and getting on  for the most part.

I've asked for peace, which means I won't bring up is/are with you again as it was not my intention to be a ******. So I'm genuinely sorry if I've upset or annoyed you and hope that this will clear the air. I do not wish to fall out with you.

Fair enough. I’m sorry too.

I would hate it if my taking offence meant people couldn’t strongly disagree with each other in the traditional H&V way. That’s not sarcasm by the way.

Consider me not fallen out with.

[VILLA MOLE]

Anyway back to Heck,  how tall is he do we know ?

[Somniloquism]

Blue Nun is French, though, yes?

Our French Teachers classroom had loads of empty wine bottles above the chalkboards (the boards were the rotating ones on a roller so had a large "shelf" above them). So I always though Blue Nun and Black Tower were French for ages as well as they appeared there.

[Sdwbvf]

Just to be picky (it seems to be de riguer on here). The strata of chalk is the North Downs not South. The best sparklings are North Downs. Unfortunately i live on the chunk of North Downs that is suburban sprawl of Croydon. Got some good grapes till i copped the vines down though.

[pauliewalnuts]

Just to be picky (it seems to be de riguer on here). The strata of chalk is the North Downs not South. The best sparklings are North Downs. Unfortunately i live on the chunk of North Downs that is suburban sprawl of Croydon. Got some good grapes till i copped the vines down though.

No need for the opening sentence, that's a perfect post for H&V, you're absolutely right!

[Mister E]

A good crémant is where it’s at these days for me

Crémant de Bourgogne. Some fantastic quality for under a tenner over here and worthy of many a Champagne. I served it at our wedding and we had 120 bottles "on ice" (do that with Champagne and you need a remortgage).

Yes, I like the Crémant de Bourgogne but the Crémant d'Alsace is also rather tasty and - as you say - very well-priced in France.

[Mister E]

I like an English sparkling wine. From England.

I think I remember a Southern farmer telling me that parts of Sussex and the area around Reims are all on the same tectonic plate, which is why we can grow decent grapes for sparkling wine.

Sussex and Champagne share the same soil and chalk features; hence the success of English sparkling wines from the Sussex area.