Friday

'Is it worth buying 2023 en prim...'

If that iPad Pro ad makes you LIVID (it should) can I suggest you'd LOVE a reMarkable. A device that changed my life. It makes you more creative because of what it DOESN'T 'stuff in'. You write (with a pen), draw, read, and think more clearly. I can't love it enough.

My honest belief is that this is even worse than everyone thinks it is, because they’re not just saying ‘look at all the stuff we’ve squashed into this skinny prick’, they’re saying ‘you can get rid of all this old school, analogue ‘creative’ shit, because we do it all’. Short🧵

Claret. It's definitely Claret. Ask all those chaps at The Garrick.

This article is a must read for everyone in the UK let alone the drinks industry. This clearly sets out how & why the easement & change in Alcohol policy could kill the industry off. Big claims but we are dealing with hard right fanatics. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

I absolutely loved this wine (was given a sneaky chance to try it early)

Your periodic reminder that no wine goes with chocolate

A decanter

#MetGala

Ignored at the Met Gala AGAIN

Old school Claret merchant moves into Natural Wine

Sun’s out - Bum’s out!

Or at least it was yesterday during Padstow’s May Day celebrations ☀️ Normal service resumed today ☔️

FizzyBumBum#4 was flying out by the glass yesterday meaning down to the last hundred bottles Available in store or online bintwo.com/shop/p/fizzy-b…

#triggerwarning this trailer for our new drinks TV show contains scenes of me in swimming trunks #dadbod

youtube.com/watch?v=0WS3L5…

I've just bought two copies. One for me, one for my newly-qualified lawyer daughter. I love it already.

From today's Times Diary, I should clarify that I didn't have to ask the winemakers to bitch about each other.

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This was is the best wine book I've read in several years. Richly deserved. Go and read 'Vines in a Cold Climate. Also... #hattip for getting a Nancy Mitford reference in the title.

Hipster-heavy #trouserwatch at today’s Real Wine Fair (too hip to be on Twitter, it seems 🙁)

The FT Lex column says something in public many wine pros have been saying in private for a long, long time