Bastille day Petanque Tournament for Charity hosted by Barton and Guestier

This year the Bastille day Petanque tournament was hosted by Barton and Guestier in association with Gleesons incorporating Gilbeys and was managed by Jean and Sally Anne so as you can imagine it was very well run.The venue ,as usual was the lovely garden of the Raddisson St. Helen's and despite the weather(very overcast) you couldn't help but enjoy yourself  This year we were missing Stephen and that was a big worry as he is our chief strategist. However we battled on irregardless with myself, Peter and Gerry coming up against, amongst others, the Hollands of Bray gang and the Residence boys.

Peter(iphone) Fitzpatrick,Evelyn and this years hero Gerry.

We had a rough start losing our first game 5- nil  but as it is first to 7 overall we managed somehow to claw our way back, when I got Peter to put away his  iphone thereby stopping the incessant checking of golf scores."Darren! Darren who...we have a boules tournament to win." Anyway after several top notch games we managed to win the final by one point  which  we were pleased with as we were 4- nil down at one stage.

In the interests of research I had a "little" taster of all the wines.
The B&G Rose sparkler is a lovely off dry style which was particularly  enjoyed by my 19 year old goddaughter who has only being drinking for a year now.The white sparkler is drier and has more weight but they both had excellent persistence.The Thomas Barton white Grave had nice weight and just the right amount of Semillon in the blend to give it complexity and as for the the Thomas Barton Bordeaux red all i can say is that several in our group commented on how nice it was and I agree.For those of you that have not tried this range in a while I suggest that you do .

Thanks to all involved.

Evelyn