DEAR DIARY📓

What’s up winos,

THE SUN! SHE’S FINALLY HERE! She was playing coy with us for a bit there but she came thru in the end. What did you do on the first actual sunny weekend of the year? I went to Brighton to hang with an importer friend of mine whose cellar would (and did) make a grown woman cry. Had planned to go back to London that night but suddenly there was talk of playing Tekken 3 in the basement and I couldn’t tear myself away. Ended up on the train of shame the next morning then promptly cancelled all my plans to lie in a dark room all day Sunday. A wonderful way to welcome the sun, I’m sure you’ll agree

This fine Tuesday I’m going to be drawing your attention to all of the wonderful events you need to write in your diary (and buy tickets to). Anyone remember the wall calendar? You know, the master diary in your parents’ kitchen that had to be consulted before any plans could be made? I miss those, the iPhone calendar isn’t quite the same. Every 14th of the month I think I have exciting plans but turns out it’s just a reminder to pay rent. Sigh.

Anyway. Whether you have a wall calendar or not, time to write these down. Coz if you don’t plan your life around the Dan’s social calendar, what are you even doing? Now we’ve got our little extra Dan’s 2.0 space, we’re going mad on events. MAD.

First up is the massive piss up also known as the LC Selections launch party on the 6th of July. You don’t even need a ticket to this one, we’re easing you in. Just come down and have a swig of the new booze Dan’s brought over from Oz and that I have in turn painstakingly unloaded and attempted to cram into the last 1% of space in the warehouse. It’ll be a hoot and a blast, or whatever they say in Australia for having a hoot and a blast.

A few weeks after that we’ve got our warehouse-mate Angelo from Wasted Wine Club pouring the wines he rescued from a fate worse than death (going down the sink, or worse, into a substandard pasta sauce). Caring about the environment is in for 2024, you heard it here first. Angelo’s doing the mostest to reduce waste in the wine industry by bottling surplus wine from such excellent producers as Intellego and Jolie-Laide, and he’s a grand old dude so come on down on the 30th and help him put a dent in his supply. Tickets here.

August is gonna be devoted to the second round of Wine 4 Dummies, whose first round was a rip roaring success. U asked for another one and here it is. A new focus, new content and new wines, so even if you went to the first one and can’t get enough, there’s plenty still to learn. Trust me. That WSET textbook was like 200,000 pages long, we barely scratched the surface the first time around. Tickets here.

So much more to come on the events front but I can’t tell u what yet, mostly coz I haven’t built the others on the website yet. I’m busy, okay? Just keep your eyes peeled on the Insta and you’ll be fine.

What else? Oh, you wanted to buy some wine? I got u. Primo Champagne arrivals in the form of Dhondt-Grellet and JM Seleque, plus a huge top up of everyone’s fave, Savart.

That’s all folks! C u next week.

Megan

xoxo