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Change - the bad and the good
Let’s get straight to it: keykegs are becoming popular and people ask why we do not have them. Don’t we hold eco values? But those values are the reason we don’t have them: recycling. Key kegs, for those who do not know, are plastic barrels for wine or beer on draft. Salesmen of product packaged in this way are somewhat, well, diffident on the subject as they push their product. So here are the facts: they are only recyclable through one company currently in the UK, who take payment to take them away, and who undertake this as a "marketing exercise”...
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Travel Looms
I’ve learnt to curtail my luddish tendencies - many will know that I’ve sometimes refused to regard the fact that St. JOHN really is a 'brand'. But now we have our wines carrying our own label, so fair enough! And happy we are to produce these. However when I visited Lisbon a while back and was shown around the new Time Out Market I was not impressed.
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Pass the salt!
In Italy you must never pass the salt, it’s about marking you out for bad luck it seems, some folk will throw salt over their left shoulder should they spill the grains and in Portugal you are not allowed to put salt on the table.
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Setting The Agenda
Spring is coming and our fields and gardens have certainly been watered in readiness…! Since this is my first blog post of the year, it seems appropriate to set the agenda with some cultural notes.
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Gentle Salmon Crusades
Trevor talks sustainable salmon fishing in an August-sleepy France, and why you will still never see salmon at St. JOHN.