Megs gift shop wine

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As per the DM, we are told Meg is using Fairwinds Estate winery for her rose. Sounds nice.
But a Reddit user has discovered, that Fairwinds winery is just a brand under the umbrella of Wine gift shop. They do corporate gifts and print on demand. Oh Meg, as ever

https://winegiftshop.com

I may still have one of those carafes somewhere! Retro joy…

Doubtful! , these people actually thought Mary berry was copying Meghan when she made a Victoria sponge cake! 🙄

I follow theaffordblewinehunter on Insta. This week’s offering is an affordable Spanish rosé from Aldi for £5.49. It seems rosé is this summer’s thing so you never know.

Rosé is every summer's thing (unless it's non stop rain).

Nice bit on the BBC news about William helping to get the road to Mousehole football club sorted, they've done amazingly well in recent years and this has been an issue highlighted occasionally.

Doubtless he was copying...something..though!

Mary Berry was copying Meghan?! Are you serious?

I'm sure the producers of Highgrove Estate are quaking!

That reminds me. I won tickets to Highgrove Gardens in a raffle last year, we had a very pleasant day and a good lunch in their restaurant. The wine was very good , the Atlantique range at around £12
I’ve bought more from the shop since then, had some of the claret at Christmas.

Yes, the Celebitchy numpties said that. The former Great British Baking judge and veteran of British cooking media needs to copy an American, cos-playing royal doing basic, sub-GCSE level baking.

Yes. We all merely walk in the shadow of She Who Does Everything First.

She took the earth's first breath, baked the first bread, rippled the first waves with her gentle hands, took the world's first step, drank the planet's first milk of paradise.

She is Eve, she is Lilith, Pandora, Shatarupa, Embla ... moulded into one perfect form.

SHE IS MEGHAN.

Yep!!! Loads of unhinged posts on x stating that she was obviously copying Meghan !! 🙄
there were a few pointing out that Mary had been making that cake for longer than Meghan had been alive and that it was a U.K. staple but that was mostly ignored!

You want to copyright that before Meghan steals it for advertising her inevitable, eponymous perfume.

(I now can't help thinking of those spoof "perfume" ads for Boddingtons Beer with Melanie Sykes - "By 'eck, it's gorgeous!")

🤣 that ad was pure U.K. class!! 🤣

Did anyone else use an empty Mateus Rose bottle to hold a candle ?

I guess that tells you everything about where these people are located.

Oh yes, the pro-Meghan supporters were incandescent that the sainted Mary Berry had dared to copy Meghan's "original cake" from WLM by making a Victoria Sponge 🙄

... despite the first Victoria Sponge recipe being credited to Mrs Beeton in 1861 - named after, you know, the Queen.😂

That was a bistro classic wasn’t it? Red gingham table cloth and a bottle of Mateus Rosé with the drips of many candles cascading down the sides. No wonder we are side eyeing the Megeus Rosé. I appreciate things have moved on.

Edited to add I’m now thinking there might be a market for macramé pot hangers.

My mum had to produce a Victoria Sponge (as well as a supper dish) for her O level cookery practical in 1947. It was a tough ask as ingredients had to come from the family ration coupons and required them to save up butter and sugar coupons for weeks. Then the pressure was to produce something edible as it was the only dinner that night.

Thanks for the tip!

Highgrove Sparkling Rose is made in England exclusively for Highgrove Estate, using an organic grape blend:

Created exclusively for Highgrove by the acclaimed Herbert Hall Winery, our Highgrove Sparkling Rosé is a limited-edition Cuvée produced using a blend of sustainably harvested Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay grapes.

£34.95. Not a bad price for a sparkling wine that has high production values and is limited edition.

The Paul Masson carafes also made good vases in the two sizes,

Ah memories . Prawn cocktail , sole Veronique and Black Forest gateau !
Those were the days .

That's a lovely and humbling story. Victoria sponge for tea and nothing else! A wonderful treat and a hunger inducing disappointment at the same time, I imagine. I can sympathise with your mum. Though we didn't grow up during post wartime rationing, my brother and I had to do home economics during the miners' strike (our dad was on strike). Cobbling together the ingredients for whatever the dish of the week was was challenging to say the least (and we didn't eat any traditional British food at home, so that was another challenge).

What is this posh sole veronique of which you speak, mylovelygreendress?

The rest matches, but round here it was a striped steak - my pal always claimed they were serving zebra - at the Berni Inn

But then I'm common, me ...

This @Puzzledandpissedoff
www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/lemon-sole-veronique-recipe

I’m lately seeing orange wine around, I wonder if this might have been a better choice, a bit different from the pack of already established sleb rosés?

Looks seriously delicious, and these days I tend to have mine meuniere, but I seem to remember eating that once in France