Spar wines and back pain
January 14th, 2010 admin
I’m in pain today. Bad back. Came from nowhere, starting as stiffness in my hamstring a few days ago. Now I can hardly walk. I’m lying down on my bed, and I’m going to watch Silent Witness and drink wine. Still, I braved it into town this afternoon to taste through a range of wines from Spar with Laura Jewell MW who runs the operation. Spar have some 2600 branches, and so they’re a very important wine retailer. We tasted through…
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