More St. Peray for everyone! Wait. No. I don’t want the prices to go higher! Stop drinking St. Peray! More Cote-du-Rhone Blanc for everyone!

Makes sense. I am absolutely incapable of not buying at least one bottle after a tasting at a winery or tasting room.

Peter Magyar is a hilarious name for an opposition leader. It's like if the Democrats nominated Bobby America for President.

Peter Magyar’s party has soundly defeated Viktor Orban in today’s election. Congrats to the Hungarian people for vanquishing a corrupt Putin puppet, and rejecting Trump, Vance and Rubio’s desperate and foolish attempt to tamper in your democracy.

gotta say Usha, you pick real winners

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Bless JD Vance for being such an unlikable asshole that his endorsement single-handedly got the fascist deposed in Hungary.

To be fair "Orban" does sound like a kind of couch

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Ok so I opened the app while on vacay in France dreading seeing the news, but knowing it was the responsible thing to do. And look! The first thing I saw was something good! Yay good news! Yay down with fascist wannabe dictators! Yay Hungary!

At La Mirande in Avignon not drinking a glass of milk with a straw next to a glass of white CDP. #PastisManguin

ORD flagship lounge has pretty legit booze offerings, if anyone was wondering. Also how many Mezcal Paloma’s did I make myself? More than 1 and less than 5!

At 11:30a: House Democrats will attempt to pass a war powers authorization by unanimous consent It’s expected that Republicans will block the effort That could jam up Republicans with constituents who oppose the war

I rely on GuildSomm's Wine Law Compendium for work. Today I was looking at Valtellina regulations to decide btwn "Valtellina Superior Grumello Riserva" & "Grumello Valtellina Superiore Riserva" for new entry. Fascinating stuff, right? Anyway! Look at this about Stagafassli! So cool! New info 4 me!

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

My Seattle friend rescued this from down-the-drain fate while doing cellar work for a client For a wine that sells $40 new this showed incredible staying power. Long, high quality cork & Lagrein’s high acid surely helped Lovely. Fresh black cherry & plum, cassis, black pepper, purple flower. 10/10

i.e. the Italians have finally won the prosecco argument with the Aussies. Notice I did not capitalize prosecco. Because it was a grape variety name before they hoodwinked everyone when they made it a protected place name! 😠 Aussie prosecco 4eva! 🤪

Interesting…

Oak Park, IL did No Kings protest signs proud! 🔥

If you ever wondered about champagne reserve wines, Tom Hewson of Six Atmospheres offers a fascinating look at "Some (slightly weird) perpetual reserve maths"

This ‘most splendid’ Amontillado is wild. It’s almost grey in color in the glass and super sediment-y, but so so biologic in nose and flavor profile with the background oxidative notes complementing. No idea how old it is, but still fresh and delicious.

FWIW, this is one of the most brilliant wine books I have ever read.

Elaine Chukan Brown’s first book stands out from the crowd – in all the right and important ways. https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wines-california-book-review #jancisrobinson #bookreviews #winebooks #winecommunity #wineknowledge

BREAKING! Juliana Stratton has defeated Raja Krishnamoorthi—and his $30M in AIPAC, MAGA, and Crypto money—and has won the Democratic Nomination for US SENATE from Illinois!

thanks i hate it

WTF? Bud Light for $15.34? I’d be so pissed if I was a donor attending that party. Even if I were rich.

Yay!

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

Illinois needs ranked choice voting now! I’m tired of feeling like I have to vote for a lesser candidate (Conyears-Ervin) over the more progressive candidate (Kina Collins) to keep the IMO worst candidate (La Shawn Ford) out of the IL7 seat for the next 40 years. 😖

Kane results not surprising Old white man at my Rotary lunch last week commented that Senate primary race was essentially between “1 man & 2 black women”. He ignored that the top 3 candidates were all POC, & personally identified w/Raja Krishnamoorthi, bestowing on him honorary white man status 😑

A reminder that you should want universal voting in a democracy irrespective of whether your side is suddenly benefiting or losing due to restrictions and disenfranchisement.

This is my favorite opening paragraph in a long time. It fills me with hope.

😬 None of the Dem candidates for my House District or for Senate seat are awful. But some are definitely better than others. Crossing my fingers for anyone other the Raja Krishnamoorthi for the D nominee for Senate and anyone other than LaShawn Ford for IL House District 7. Might not know tonight…

Should I be offended for the Irish that these are just green glass/green labels? Or be kinda impressed that 2 of these wines do happen to come from places with historical Celtic influences….

Fucking evil.

The best thing we saw today was Trump begging for help from NATO and European allies. The responses? Priceless. Thank you for making us smile.

In a way? No, this is great. No more playing along with the madman. I don’t care if gas prices double, triple, quadruple. He’s a toddler, and the world (and congress!) need to leave him alone in his corner to wail and bang his fists alone.

🤨 I’m a no on most of these, and especially on the green curry and pad krapow pairings.

Best of times, worst of times. Likoly death if not severe degradation of democratic ideals and values. On the other side of the ledger, some outstanding frozen food at TraderJoes. #modernlife

Is he going to meet with Putin again after this? 😡

… I GUESS???? I GUESS?!?!!?!

[Exit Murderer.]

A few of his "insurmountable" endorsements lost their races yesterday.

She’s correct (again). Here’s hoping Trump endorses Paxton and Cornyn does drop out. Though I think he won’t, and then Cornyn will be better placed in the primary run off and have better momentum into November. Still, here’s hoping.

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive. Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

For those who don't know, Tillis LOVES Dogs. He holds a "Bipawtisan" parade every year for dogs during Halloween and even dressed up his dog as Kyrsten Sinema one year for Halloween. He hosted a Mardi Gras dog parade last month. #NCPol #NCSen

Oh fuck off. You’re no FDR yourself.

American news talking about “the new era for Iran” - have you eliminated the regime? Or are you leaving the same regime as you did in Venezuela? Let’s be real for a hot minute. Face of a regime is not the regime itself.