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Sommelier Recommendations - July 2009

Summer time is with us again, this is a great time to look at our offering of Rosé wines
 
VALLE REALE 2006 CERASUOLO, MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO
The Pizzolo family’s winery is perched inside a wild, glacier-carved national park in Abruzzi, on the “calf” of the Italian boot, where the grapes ripen late, just as the first snows dust [...]

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Summer Fun for all the family

The Sandbanks Hotel and Funsters Entertainment offer a full and varied programme of activities to suit the whole family, offering first class entertainment during your stay with us.
 
Childrens Entertainment
For children we have Funsters Cool Kids, with mini disco’s, limbo competitions, treasure hunts, crazy games, funkiest funster, visiting shows and gunge fun and so much more, [...]

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Sommelier Recommendations - June

This month my recommendations are well suited to the warm, sunny weather that we have been experiencing on the South Coast. 
 Firstly we look at a dessert wine - Icewine.
Icewine
Icewine is a rare dessert wine produced from the juice of naturally frozen grapes that have been picked in the middle of a cold Canadian winter.   At [...]

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FJB Hotels launch new wine lists

Recently I have been extremely busy preparing our new wine lists for the group;  we have greatly extended our list and have some really great offerings.  
 
Apart from including quite a few top end wines for that special celebration for example;

Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, Pierre Morey, 2001
Penfolds, ‘Yattarna’, Chardonnay1999
Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, 5 growth, 1993
Vosne-Romanée, Mugneret-Gibourg, 2000

To some more unusual [...]

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FJB Group shortlisted for Best Hotel Website

To be nominated for any award is always an exciting moment, which is then closely followed by that nervous wait until the results are announced.
 
For the FJB Group, the wait is until the 29th September 2009, the Travolution Awards at The Dorchester Hotel, London where we have been named as short listed in the ‘Best [...]

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Jim Colliss trains young Windsurfers

As the sun came up for another beautiful bank holiday weekend, the class to be taught by professional trainer Jim Collis started to set up their equipment.
 
 
The comment was made, “It’s not often we get three out of three: Sun, wind and high tide!” - the day was set to be perfect.
Jim Colliss - possibly [...]

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Bournemouth & Poole retain Blue Flag beach status

Figures revealed by Keep Britain Tidy for the 2009 Blue Flag Beach Awards show a total of 184 awards given - 71 Blue Flag beach awards, and 113 Quality Coast Awards (QCAs). Blue Flag beaches are down 11 on 2008 figures, but QCAs are up 31 for the same year.

In Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole both retained their Blue Flag status, each maintaining their 4 Blue Flag beaches - making the Borough Councils rank forth for the highest number of Blue Flag beaches nationally…

Blue Flag beaches are down 11 on 2008 figures, but QCAs are up 31 for the same year.

In Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole both retained their Blue Flag beaches status, maintaining 4 Blue Flag beaches each - making the Borough Councils rank forth (tied) for the highest number of Blue Flag beaches nationally…

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Seasonal ingredients and our own garden herbs.

Following the recent major refurbishment at the Chine Hotel, customers now have a choice of two restaurants.
Residents and non-residents can now enjoy sea views through our gardens from the Sea View Restaurant offering One-Rosette standard food with a daily changing fixed price dinner menu.  
The Gallery Brasserie has been created together with a handsome bar, [...]

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Channel Kitesurfing Record Attempt - Endurance Training Commences

In September Andy Ward, from Parkstone, will attempt to kite surf across from Alderney to Poole, this trip across the the English Channel is 70 nautical miles and across busy shipping lanes.
 
To be successful in his cross channel attempt in September Andy is not only relying on the correct wind speed and force, but also the reliability [...]

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British Beach Polo Championships 2009 in Sandbanks

On 10 -11th July 2009 The British Beach Polo Championships returns to Sandbanks, Poole for the second year. It is set to be an extremely thrilling and popular event as the England Beach Polo Team will be playing against the USA on both days.
 
Beach Polo is a variation of Arena Polo which over recent years [...]

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