Things must not be going well at Lawrence Wine Estates. Wanting to spread the fruit out among others seems disingenuous. www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Worth reading on wine and labour availability.

This will absolutely haunt my nightmares.

I’m not sure whether this is intentional or not but it’s funny to me: “His career before higher education included … a stint as dean of the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"if you think you need an obscenely heavy bottle to sell your wine, you are wrong. What you really need is a better marketing department" by Jeff Kralik

Free speech latest:

There are things that shouldn’t be said. Charlie Kirk said them for fun and profit. I don’t mourn the death of people like that. He wasted his one short, God-given life.

I will forever, until the day I die, argue billionaires shouldn’t exist. Except Taylor Swift. She’s earned it. I will also die mad that the boy who broke her heart wrote something this good. youtu.be/tGv7CUutzqU?...

@leftistlawyer.com I’m contemplating law school and would love your perspective on whether it’s practically useful. Maybe just a thumbs up versus academia.

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth — run from those who have found it." — Vaclav Havel

Teeth are so disgusting. The fact they are a middle class signier is beyond weird.

Yesterday in a seminar, we were asked to talk about the song of the summer as an icebreaker. This was mine. It seems relevant. Also, I’m really quite fun at dinner parties. youtu.be/X6cogix3cwQ?...

From a meeting today: “Part of the discombobulation is that the world is on fire and yet, fundamentally, I’m OK.”

Viscerally satisfying. “And to what end? In a kind of nihilistic symmetry, their dream of the perfect slave machine drains the life of those who use it as well as those who turn the gears.”

Wine is good. But Jeréz is something else. Valdespino is a bargain for the quality, and the only « parcellaire » I’ve encountered (Macharnudo Alto for Fino, I think there’s one for Manzanilla but I can’t recall). Top wine, top winery. #winesky

“Refusing to harden your heart is a radical act.” — @artofmarza.bsky.social It’s hard to stand in the face of a movement that hates empathy and respond with… empathy. It’s hard to counter cruelty with compassion. But that’s the way forward. If I become like my enemy, my enemy has won.

Can we — please — look at what’s happening in the States and give a definitive collective “Nah”?

Remember folks, campus free speech is the right to use to n-word and say colonialism didn't kill enough Natives, not to teach transgender literature in a literature class.

Genius dinner party theme.

Possibly the grape with the biggest identity crisis?

Nothing says luxury gift-giving like prison labour.

Truly, the forbidden c-word when it comes to discussing wine/cocktail lists, wine clubs and similar is "curated." It was cringe 10 years ago and it hasn't improved with age.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Well this is frankly terrifying.

Tomato season is afoot! Back from the market and next up is tomato sauce, chili sauce, gazpacho and pate con tomate. Did I miss anything?

More of this, please. I use a tablet for taking notes (by hand) but reading actual material just works better on paper.

Nice clients are the best. Nice people, but they pay you so exponentially better given that we need to eat and all.

I need to speak to a Polish chef and so far nobody is keen!! If you know a Polish chef, please ask them if they would be willing to speak to me about ̷C̷h̷r̷i̷s̷t̷m̷a̷s̷ Food!! Thank you!!

Trying to write about Judith Butler is so painful that I had to pull out my favourite pen as a special treat/incentive. My little offering to the gods of small things and dense texts.

VOS Selections, the lead plaintiff on this suit, is a ~4-decade family-owned wine/spirits importer out of NY. As the owner told @vinepair.com after the initial win in the Court of International Trade in late May: "When they asked me to be lead plaintiff, I thought ‘Somebody needs to step up.’"

I am curious to see which other wineries will sign up to be featured in the Fox News Wine Shop. (I got an access denied error when I tried the URL.) www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/08/why-...

For those who don’t speak Quaker, I’ll translate: Transphobes, get fucked.

As grifts go, this has to be up there with psychics, theranos and cryptos. Next, we will pay for fizzsters to rate the bubbles in sparkling water.

It's 2025. WHY are you taking calls/video with no headphones in shared environments.

This makes me sad. Santorini's unique basket vines are a world viticultural treasure, as are the wines made from them. We could be watching them die off right now. en.protothema.gr/2025/08/27/t...

The trademark for “Basic Bitch Juice” was taken, I presume?

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

I just deleted a 100-word post three times because I cannot read or construct a sentence this morning. More coffee ahoy and I'm sure this dense scholarly paper on the metaphysics of gender is going to be a treat.

Interesting article but I'm not sure how the author came to this conclusion. If total category volume is down & value is flat (per the most recent SVB report), then, yup, people are drinking less wine.

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most. ATTENTION: any Sommelier who uses this or says this works, please DM me so I can explain basic science to you; thanks.

This is such obvious common sense advice that it is doubly shameful our common sense Conservative government will entirely ignore it.

No great shock to those who put their eggs in this particular basket but worth a read if you’re interested in that sort of thing.

Vineyards in Galicia, the Douro and Beira Interior face catastrophic fires amidst intense heatwaves www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/08/ra...

I also love this! Best wine writing I’ve read in a while coming out of Substack today.

I’m not sure about port and caviar together but I’m entirely with Debussy on Wagner and Burgundy. A lovely piece of Rowell worth reading.

Today I saw a church parking lot yard sale for Palestine filled with people shopping for mountains of donated housewares. It's not enough but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing.

Goddamn, he's good at this. Can we please have one of these up in Canada some time soon?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by LinkedIn …

Worth reading. Includes a succinct explanation of why N/A wine is likely to remain a niche product.