Stromberg, Morality & New Year's Eve
“Maybe I misjudged Stromberg. Any man who drinks Dom Perignon ’52 can’t be all bad.”
It’s probably not even in the Top 10 moments from the 1977 cinematic masterpiece, The Spy Who Loved Me. Yet something about Roger Moore’s studied insouciance captures for me the essential allure of great champagne. I mean, let’s be honest. How many of us, confronted with Karl Stromberg, the evil ‘mastermind’ who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilisation under the sea, wouldn’t sit down to supper with the chap and enjoy his truly epic wine?
In any event, such moral dilemmas need not trouble us at The Blue Stoops this New Year’s Eve where, having scoured the great flatlands of Northern France, we have unearthed a cache of bottles of Gonet Sulcova Grand Cru. This rare wine is wholly emblematic of non-Grand Marque independent champagne and is frankly unmissable. We will be opening a few, hopefully with studied insouciance, and selling for £20/glass or £110 the bottle.
So, having baited the hook, it only remains for me to paste in the booking link here…see you at the bar with a pint of reasonably priced Allsopp’s Best!
We are now open as usual with the exception of New Year's Day when we close at 6pm.