Five things we learned this week

1. New Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, gave up booze for three months in the run up to the election.
2. The curse of ‘7’ continues in Bordeaux. Every year ending in ‘7’ produces a poorer vintage in Bordeaux, and Parker has mainly given sub 95 point scores.
3. Governments do whatever they like. To get statistics that show raising the drinking age to 21 will cut crime and antisocial behaviour, the Scottish Parliament’s pilot scheme was done in a town where, by the admission of Lothian & Borders Chief Inspector Jim Baird, “…we have been doing other things in the area, which could have affected the results”.
4. Over a billion bottles of whisky were exported from Scotland in 2007.
5. Dan Aykroyd makes good Icewine.