I Step Inside For A Glass Of Wine

It's the sixth Pollensa wine fair this weekend. Fairs, fairs and more fairs. We had the boat and cuttlefish fairs at the start of the month and there have been town fairs such as those in Sa Pobla and Santa Margalida. This, the Pollensa fair, is not of course a fair as in dodgems and coconut-shies but a fair as in a sort of trade fair. Or, in the case of the Pollensa wine fair, one with a theme of the "culture and knowledge of the world of wine". The idea is that visitors come along for a genteel sip or two and talk knowingly with bodega representatives. Well, that's one idea. I imagine that a few have a different idea, rather similar to that which I used to have when attending the likes of the western wine thrash in Bristol. How many wines could be sampled in the largest amounts? That seemed to be the idea back then. It was like attending a massive Yates's Wine Lodge. I'm sure that no-one carries that sort of attitude into the Pollensa do, well only one or two.

Something that is quite different about the wine fair is that it is one thing and one thing alone - wine. Other fairs, and the boat and cuttlefish do's expanded in this way this year, grab some local flavour as a way, presumably, of attracting more people. It didn't go completely unnoticed that the most popular parts of these fairs were the tent with some nosh and the craft market: the latter had nothing directly to do with either of the fairs. Then there were also the giants and the folk dance. There's none of this at the wine fair - it is a fair for wine and those who like wine, lots of it in some instances.

The fair takes place in the cloister of the Saint Domingo convent in the old town, and you can read even more about it on Friday in that fine organ - "The Bulletin". And how do I know you can read more? How do you think?


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Yesterday's title - Vim, Spider and Colin. Part one of "More Bad News" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0XDb4zxmE). Today's title - where's this from?

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