he/him head sommelier at La Trompette, writes about things, mostly vegetables and wine with added opinions.
London, probably.
Joined January 2009
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my mate who works in the royal mint told me about this astonishing feature on the new £50 notes and we've been avidly waiting for a king charles fifty to test it out - today we got one and can confirm that it does indeed work
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If you're in Reading, look out for this!
An evening of folk horror shorts at @Rdng_bsct_fctry 🎃
Spooky Season has officially started, and there are just a handful of tickets left for DARK HARVEST: A NIGHT OF SHORT FOLK HORROR FILMS later this month at @Rdng_bsct_fctry!
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October 23rd at 8pm 🚨 10 TICKETS LEFT🚨
October 27th at 7:30pm
donaldé retweeted
Why is the life-saving helicopter funded by charity, but the royal's helicopter is funded by the taxpayer?
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Ah yes… Many people don’t realise that any reputable wine merchant should take it back. If it’s clearly corked, the age doesn’t matter to me either. As long as they brought it from us. So it helps to have an account or long term relationships.
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I am so sick of under performing expensive a$$ wines that are ruined or corked by terrible and archaic closures: one thing makes me more aggro though, the simpletons who rally for such crap to stay in wines that are deemed ‘serious’ y’all are not serious ! Readjust expectations
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We've gotta bring back this kind of propaganda if we're ever gonna stop climate change
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I’ve nicked this - in a limited and specific way - because it’s a work of heartbreaking genius and I think it deserves to go viral. 😉
#LiarJohnson #JailJohnson
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A bit more about why the middle ages were not as dirty as TV & movies often like to portray them and a few other myths about that era here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/0…
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Here is my work-in-progress list of the world’s highest vineyards (in meters asl) starting with Switzerland (1090m).
Does anybody have documented evidence of corrections or additions?
donaldé retweeted
Wine Twitter help, RT please! I remember someone posting stats about grape variety %s planted through the decades, showing a significant loss in diversity of plantings in France, but I cannot seem to find it... anything like that v much appreciated!
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WhatsApp from a Master of Wine on Wed. “You’re not made for a career in wine PR. The appropriate phrase is ‘Conditions were challenging, and yields smaller than we would have liked, but the wines we did make show excellent balance and good levels of freshness.’
Friday’s Times 🤔
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This is the "Caligula" of bad articles. It’s an article so bad that it leaves you marvelling at how it ever came to be. I need a separate article about how it was commissioned, written and edited.
xitter.cf/guardiang2/status/1836…
The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
donaldé retweeted
I open up a Word document labeled "Draft2" and crack my knuckles. I write one sentence and add a footnote that says, simply, eloquently, "ADD REFERENCE". I am a Scholar™️.
