For a report, I am looking for UK #wine trade professionals (sommeliers, importers, retailers, distributors, educators, etc) who can comment on the appeal of sparkling wine categories beyond Champagne and Prosecco

#sommelier
#wine industry
#journorequest
#report
#sparklingwine

i wrote a piece about how we might reimagine where we live - for Long Now Foundation, and thanks for edits by Ahmed Kabil & jay
longnow.org/ideas/bioregio…

I’ll jinx it, Nicks

The Rare Parent Grape of Chardonnay, Gouais Blanc, Lives On vintnerproject.com/wine/the-rare-…

This is a read

The same tired tropes, the same bad info
Being 30% correct, no pushback ?
Nobody speaks on winemaking, wine styles, other than colors and
The pick a random time to decant because it sounds good info is laughable.
The ‘I decanted this and it’s better the next day’ crowd kills me

Netanyahu's genocide continues... Just like Hitler's did, and no one in the west stopped either one of the monsters.

Question for the gallery: It is more beneficial to decant red or white wines? (Science based responses appreciated)

I am 100% convinced that a huge part of the wine community just does things with wine (service, rituals, glass wear)(wrongheaded idea about when to / what to decant) because of beliefs from prior generations without ever thinking about why they are doing it.

This is the funniest thing I might have ever seen

If car crashes were truly accidents and road design didn’t matter, then this would be a random distribution, not this Sun Belt of Death

New research suggests that musical improvisation engages specific brain regions uniquely compared to formulaic playing, offering new insights into the neural basis of creativity. dlvr.it/T6Rqzp

Too lazy to pick off all the leaves, toasting it up for some salsa roja

Ciao
$12.50 cost

Like you never seen a broken man…

Sick at home. Using the time to think about my trip to England this coming June or July to show my wines. Any fellow twitter hospitality pals who would like to be involved in a tasting? Let me know xx

The Intellectualist The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the ax, for the ax was clever and he convinced the trees that since his handle was made of wood that he was one of them. Turkish proverb

Rain. She's talking about rain.

A study in Brain Communications reveals that individuals with aphantasia, who cannot voluntarily create mental images, show no increase in brain activity during motor simulations, contrasting sharply with those who can visualize movements, indicating… dlvr.it/T6PhQV

Applications for the 2024/25 MW study programme open on Monday 6 May.

Find all the details on how to apply here: mastersofwine.org/apply

Good luck!

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