"Court of Master Sommeliers Advanced Candidate" 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Apparently everyone is now a 'candidate'. Back in my day, you only were something, once you actually earned it. Otherwise, you were just a pointless dumbass with a monocle and a top hat.

Current mood. I mean, if I wanted daily 80% humidity, I'd live down on the coast like the rest of Spanish humanity.

This

What's stronger together? letter.hudin.com/p/the-holy-t...

What's most disturbing in this video of Russian war crimes on a coffee shop (!) is how generally calm people are and helping one another to safety as these horrific attacks have become so commonplace. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

The Champagne of Spain should be poured mostly in the lane.

I'm curious how long Liberland will last once as the crypto criminals experience a few mosquito-laden Danubian summers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think Sting said of his Tenuta il Palagio estate that he's basically spending all of his children's future inheritance to run the place. If "Every Breath you Take" royalties can't sustain a winery, then nothing can.

In addition to the senseless killing of Ukrainians, the Russians seem to want to wipe out the wine culture as well. www.hudin.com/recent-russi...

A deeper look at some fine French Rhône wines. www.hudin.com/a-new-look-a...

Yet more bubbles popping up under the banner of Corpinnat. www.hudin.com/corpinnat-ne...

A lengthy look at the Languedoc. www.hudin.com/the-wines-of...

"...the sovereignty of the man in the desert." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Not to mention no death penalty...

"...this is what you'd put in as a soccer fan" Every news org should always add "(he was quoted as saying using the American word for 'football')"

This is the same Freixenet that tried to lay off over 600 workers just two years ago and pays unlivable grape prices of 0.30€/kg to viticulturists? This is that Freixenet, right?

This is always a very special kind of asshole. At least they didn't dump it in the countryside, I guess. Baby steps...

Oh for the love of Godello. www.hudin.com/dominio-de-t...

People who toss the ice cubes from a water glass but then eat salads in Spain are just bizarre.

Despite speaking fully in Spanish when entering tapas bars in Rioja, given the quantity of staff that decide of their own accord to switch to English on me, I've started replying, "Prefereixes que parlem en català, et va bé? Per mi, sí."

Reposted! 😅

Always questionable when it comes to Russia and wine... open.substack.com/pub/hudin/p/...

lol 😂

I often wonder what happened to all the people who claimed you don't get hangovers from Tequila, but then I realize they're probably all dead.

I sprained my wrist opening the jar of sourdough starter is something that only an aging hipster could say and makes me realize I'm far more interesting than I thought?

As @pkrugman.bsky.social put it, a "human Ponzi Scheme".

I think the lemon is corked in my Gin & Tonic. Just one of those days.

For those that are Cava and yet not Cava. www.hudin.com/the-un-cava-...

Dark days when a tallat (cortado) in the village costs nearly 2€... That's a 50% increase in price since I arrived 15 years ago.

Pézenas is a fine place, even if every second business has some kind of Molière theme.

The beauty of the sweetest of wines. www.hudin.com/a-wine-of-st...

You know you're from the village when you walk around Barcelona and feel obligated to say "bon dia" to randos.

Wow, they have more debt than a no-bid military contract awarded to a Trump family member which is now, a standard unit of malfeasance.

Always a perfect moment for Corpinnat, especially in the current heat wave. www.hudin.com/the-wines-of...

"Oh, while I'm waiting I'll open the car door for some fresh air." he says and then closes the car door very quickly.

I wish I'd known it was the International Mosquito Conference before coming to Collioure this week...

This is some uniquely French level bullshit

The wine anniversary that just keeps on givin' www.hudin.com/the-last-fre...

Is Pinot Noir potentially a Tijuana stripclub experience? www.hudin.com/cave-des-vin...

Spain: "Hold my beer."

Gotta love the dumptrucks of effort being put into spam PR emails these days 😂

A lot of articles on Substack have spellnig errors but the true lack of editors shows itself when reading six meandering paragraphs about arriving to a French city without a hotel reservation. (I also had trouble getting past the mispellnig of ‘apéro’ as well…)

Indeed, why look back in anger when you can look at back the 2021 vintage of Priorat wines? www.hudin.com/looking-back...

I reset my Instagram algorithm and now it shows me boatloads of sailing crap. Meta AI lives up to its Metaverse forebears in the Family Tree of Zuckerberg.

War crimes denial alongside a sexy ramen recipe. The news is here now.

Let's have a look at the current wines in Southern Rhône! www.hudin.com/the-wines-of...

What are the best examples of wines to know in Croatia at the moment? Hold my beer. www.hudin.com/featured-cro...

Producer: "So basically, we want to ruin this film. We want every scene to annoy the viewer and make them think, 'Crap, I'm never getting these two hours back...'" Director: "So this is why we're casting Jared Leto as the lead?"

When in Slovenia... www.hudin.com/revisiting-t...

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