A day of Beetroot and other fruit wines

The 7:31 Number 9 bus into Cambridge was only then minutes late but it was sufficient to miss the 8:15 train to London. Managed to pick up Mr Scholz and companion from the hotel in Southwark and then travel by bus to Horse Guards Parade. By fortuitous timing, we arrived just in time for the changing of the guard before moving on to meet Mr Straus at the Institute of Directors.

A detailed briefing on the Fruit Wine industry, lunch and Mr Straus having a tasting session of Bestwinus was followed by a meander through London. We walked via Fortnum and Mason, Burlingdon Arcade with its watchful Beadle and through winding backstreets of Mayfair until reaching the Dorchester for our first appointment.

A successful meeting later we took a taxi in the rush hour to the Nightjar cocktail bar on City Road, to be entertained and educated in our second meeting.

The main discovery of the day was that at least two of Bestwinus's Fruit Wines had flavour notes that intrigued the palates of epicurian bar managers and cocktail experts; they were Blackcurrant and Beetroot.

To say we were shattered by 19:30 was an understatement. Mr Straus courteously accompanied Mr Scholz and his companion back to the Elephant and Castle by tube and ensuring that they found the bus there back to the hotel. I managed to catch the 20:15 King's Lynn train to Cambridge and arrived just before 10pm back home.