SCENE: A Gentlemen's Club
CJ and PK are seated in leather armchairs.
CJ: I say PK, what’s that in your hand?
PK: This?
CJ: No, the other one.
PK: This, my friend, is the long-awaited first book from Sediment
CJ: A Sediment book?
PK: Yes! Sediment: Two Gentlemen and Their Mid-Life Terroirs. Published by John Blake Books, available from today.
CJ: What a handsome volume – how much does it cost?
PK: £12.99 or less, from Amazon and all good booksellers. Which is less, even, than a bottle of wine.
CJ: Well…
PK: It’s rather like a wine, in fact. It contains Malbec, Cava, Bordeaux and port, some rather shoddy Côtes du Rhône, Le Piat d’Or…
CJ: You intrigue me -
PK: It’s Sediment’s most entertaining thoughts about wine drinking, wine buying and so on, in a convenient hardback form.
CJ: Revised and edited?
PK: As the lawyers insisted.
CJ: It strikes me, PK, that this would be enjoyed by anyone who reads the Sediment blog.
PK: And it would make the perfect gift for any wine drinker who doesn't read Sediment.
CJ: Or, indeed, any of their friends or relatives.
PK: It would.
CJ: Tell me what it is again?
PK: The perfect gift, CJ.
CJ: You're absolutely right: Sediment: Two Gentlemen and Their Mid-Life Terroirs
Porter: Excuse me gentlemen, but we’ve had reports of a fatuous conversation taking place in the Smoking Room. Are you actually members of this club?
"Sediment's most entertaining thoughts" as in a mixed case of old favourites, which "revised and edited" would also suggest, i.e. already published here, or will there also be some en primeur treats?
ReplyDeleteThe thoughts have appeared here, but lovingly updated and edited in a proper structure, along with an intro which explains how we started all of this - and unlike " en primeur treats", if you pay now, you don't have to wait years before you can enjoy it!
Delete"lovingly updated" is good enough for me! And tomorrow is St. Martin's day, when the novello is released here in Italy, which sounds like a good excuse for getting myself a copy. Not least, because it will probably be more enjoyable than most of the novello in question...
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