Great natural wine spot in Stockholm.

I forgive Gen Z for killing wine if they succeed in suffocating these assholes. www.notus.org/money/nra-na...

At the venerable Tygge & Sessil in Stockholm enjoying a glass of Krasna Hora Pinot Noir from Moravia.

I like opera and I like wine but I never would have put these two together in this way. Steven Spurrier is surely a baritone. www.winebusiness.com/news/article...

WTF. This can’t be real. trumpcard.gov

I absolutely love this piece. One of the best wine pieces I’ve read in a while. Hey, Gueuleton, I’m looking at you.

Low energy Swan Lake in Stockholm made worse by dude next to me humming to the music and air-conducting the orchestra.

Par for the course. Oh wait . . . He cheats at golf.

Five years ago a “thought leader” in the wine trade predicted fake meat would be ubiquitous today. Here’s the 5 year chart of the segment leader, Beyond Meat.

Stockholm: 16:30.

Everyone wants a piece of the grift. This guy, Infantile, is only too happy to bend a knee for money. Hello, Qatar, yours is only the second most corrupt World Cup in history now.

Correction: massively swollen tiny hand.

The earlier calls for FIFA to remove the World Cup from the US are a distant memory and wishful thinking. FIFA is as MAGA as you can get. A disgusting, corrupt organization.

Devastating if true. Wonder if Bayer knew this when they bought this dog. winecountrygeographic.blogspot.com/2025/12/karm...

The supreme karmic event is for Biden to attend Trump’s funeral.

Insane game at the Cottage this evening, lads!

This seems obvious but it isn't. Wine marketing is a hellish business. It's hard to glean useful data when the consumer is choosing a lesser option because it's what he/she can afford. wineanorak.com/2025/11/30/w...

I’m sure he got a lot of blowback for this but it makes sense. Social isolation among young people is a real problem. More social drinking might help. Less might be exacerbating the problem. youtube.com/shorts/-Pf2q...

Big Wine, Big “Impairment”. www.winebusiness.com/content/file...

I'm always delighted to find an excellent gamaret. They are not always to my liking. artisanswiss.com/2020/03/22/s...

My favorite TS play is Travesties. Why? Because Zürich is a backdrop, but mostly because it’s brilliant. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Interesting analysis. open.substack.com/pub/chadbour...

Thanksgiving apéro. Delish.

Nice pun but the issue is serious with long tentacles into traceability, over-fishing, forced labor, and outright fraud.

I was in Gstaad this past weekend. No tourists at all. www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...

What a collection of wines: Rayas, Pignan, Fonsalette, and des Tours. What happens next? www.terredevins.com/actualites/e...

Some good stuff here. open.substack.com/pub/jimsilve...

Several ex-military and CIA congressional dems have taken to social media to ask current military and CIA operatives to disobey illegal orders from Trump. This is huge. dailycaller.com/2025/11/18/d...

A new wine related travel guide to Switzerland. Highly recommended. artisanswiss.com/2025/11/17/b...

Interesting. The article mentions agave Americana—never heard of it—but agave weber azul would be the wise choice. It’s precocious, seven years to ripen versus ten, with higher fermentable sugars. Get the ovens and tahona ready. www.larvf.com/face-au-chan...

It’s a bloodbath. washingtonbeerblog.com/rogue-brewer...

“Butterscotch, caramel. Savory, some fruit-funk notes, some slight burn on there like charcoal. The length was unbelievable.” The winning cheese is a Gruyère, of course. www.newspressnow.com/cnn/2025/11/...

A unified voice for wine!!!?? Hahahaha. Good luck with that. Another headship moment: And then the session ended with a discussion of mergers and acquisitions. Are these people brain-dead? www.winebusiness.com/news/article...

A man who desecrates the White House and our museums will stop at nothing. We have a cultural heritage to lose. livingnewdeal.org/sistine-chap...

Inside the Palais Fédérale they are anxiously awaiting the USSC ruling on Trump’s tariffs. Helga the boxer could care less.

Not true. High altitude aging of wine has been well studied. artisanswiss.com/2023/05/01/l...

I listened to the oral arguments yesterday and I agree with this analysis, FWIW. www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/11/su...

Somewhere between Maltman’s and Parra’s views on geology and its effects on the taste of wine, or “terroir,” lies the truth. www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

Works for canned wine too.

Hey British friends, can we get an update on that scumbag Tim Martin. He seems low-profile these days. Has he changed his stripes?

GDP would also rise as well as collective IQ. Foreign language competence would also rise. What are we waiting for?

A recent spike of engagement for an old piece of mine got me curious. Turns out a recent initiative in Vaud to Save Le Mormont, an incredible vineyard and natural preserve passed. I'm happy to think my article may have helped. artisanswiss.com/2021/07/14/t...

Subtle difference.

Does anyone honestly think His Orangeness is going to eat any of that.

The first natural wine I ever tasted was in 1982. It was a Coturri red and it was godawful. May have set organic wine back some, even though it was the lack of sulfites mostly that made it bad. Anyway, Mr. Coturri is an icon today, and deservedly so. www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/28/p...

Chasselas greatness awaits. artisanswiss.com/2025/10/29/l...

Cringing in advance. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Unless there’s much more the NBA gambling scandal seems to be relatively isolated to a couple of low level individuals. Billups OTOH seems to be in some shit.

Fait accompli. Long awaited, hard earned. A delightful day.

Oy vey, when will it end. Yes, you will enjoy your dinner less when you eat it in a toilet after someone has pinched a loaf. But this makes it seem like wine lovers are demanding and overly fussy. Not so. Use your brain.