{"id":4276,"date":"2015-11-05T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:58:07","slug":"winterborne-longjohns-picks-some-majestic-winners-off-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"Winterborne Longjohns picks some Majestic Winners of(f) course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our racing correspondent Winterborne \u00a0Longjohns is spooked by the knowledge that Wincanton is an anagram for Cannot win. Moreover, he has gone down with a severe bout of food poisoning. Nevertheless, he has summoned up the strength to write for us from his sickbed. \u00a0But he seems to be wandering off\u00a0 his usual subject.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sausages or Samphire ? Probably we shall never know. But whatever the food poisoning was, it certainly laid poor Winterborne low ! Today having seen TRIP TO PARIS, \u00a0Ed Dunlop’s fast fininshing \u00a0colt fourth in Tuesdays Melbourne Cup, supported for this race since September and at least returning something more than just the stake, \u00a0we should now be focusing on the jump season ahead and Wincanton\u2019s Badger Ales meeting on Saturday.<\/p>\n

However with winners emerging from the HARRY FRY stable as infrequently as reliable information\u00a0 we may well have to cast our net more widely and quite possibly less frequently in order not to disappoint our readers, if they can be identified.<\/p>\n

So for want of something better with Cannotwin’s big day coming up on Saturday, Winterborne has instead decided to publish his list of outstanding wines<\/strong> currently available in the Wincanton area. Here it should perhaps be mentioned that in an earlier and quite possibly more distinguished life Winterborne was better known for serving a ten year stretch* as Tasting Secretary of the Circle of Wine Writers and, as he would be the first to admit, old habits do die hard.<\/p>\n

Majestic Wines<\/a> are a source of inspiration, well supported , indeed directly favoured by the sainted one** whose bi annual shopping forays to France do so much to relieve his domestic budget , representing as they do, a prodigious saving to his annual accounts. Since their merger with Virgin Wines earlier this year Majestic (Yeovil and Calais) have come up with a selection of twelve own label wines which they call the DEFINITION range:<\/p>\n

Pinot Grigio,
\nSancerre,
\nProvence Rose ,
\nNew Zealand Pinot Noir,
\nCotes du Rhone (All from the outstanding 2014 vintage)
\n2010 Montagne St Emilion Claret,
\n2009 Rioja Riserva
\nnon vintage Prosecco
\ncan all be confidently recommended\u00a0 particularly if included in a mixed case of twelve at \u00a3120.00.<\/p>\n

-Among the fifty four different wines tasted at the end of October others that stood out from Majestic were:<\/p>\n