Congrats to Adrian and the team at the Porto climate change leadership conference - looking forward to a great speaker line up Climate Change Leadership #wineintelligence

Barnstorming speech from Miguel Torres Climate Change Leadership who asks: can wine industry be the leader in mitigating climate change? What’s stopping them?

Fantastic work on sustainability in the vineyard and winery Climate Change Leadership from Maggie Henriquez and Cristina Mariani-May from Krug and Banfi respectively Wine Intelligence

Huge thank you to my brave and thoughtful panellists Antonio Amorim Nick Amorim ⚽ and Paul Willgoss M&S . Keep messages simple, do a few things really well, recognise that product quality matters just as much even in a ‘sustainable’ setting Climate Change Leadership Wine Intelligence

Prof Mike Veseth: wine business requires ‘generational’ commitments and exists in fragile economic system - so it is more likely to ‘get’ the climate change problem Climate Change Leadership Wine Intelligence

Adrian Bridge: wine industry needs to frame choosing to drink wine as choosing ‘economic, social and environmental sustainability’ Climate Change Leadership Wine Intelligence

Max Hastings, ex editor of Telegraph and boss to Boris Johnson: “Boris Johnson is one of the most brilliant and entertaining journalists that I know but the tragedy is he thinks he is Winston Churchill but the reality he is Steve Coogan” - on Radio4 any questions just now

Fab tea and lemon drizzle cake ⁦Wandsworth Park⁩

Back in December 2018 Wine Intelligence Chief Operations Office Richard Halstead wrote an article on his predictions for 2019. Now 6 months into the year he has reflected on these. Read more here: bit.ly/2wYnigE

Agree completely Sarah. HMG have clearly assumed we're all stupid and can't add up. Other govt assumptions from the past week: 1. laws don't apply to HMG if it doesn't like them; 2. UK citizens can't tell the difference between lies and facts; 3. Optimistic waffle = policy

The gorgeously mad wine list at Terroir New York City - chapeau to Paul Greico #makemadeiragreatagain

Wine trends to watch for in 2020 . liz-palmer.com/wine-trends-wh… . #winetrends #winetrends2020 #wine #winelovers #redwine #whitewine #champagne #wineintelligence #wineconsumer #wineconsumption #sustainability #winesustainability #cbdproducts #cbdwine #winepackaging

How many Americans have Coronavirus? Number of Americans tested: <2000 (source: The Atlantic, 6 Mar). Number of positives: 545+ (NY Times, March 9). Italy: 42k tests, 6k positives as of the same date.

Other comparisons... S Korea 196k tests, 7.3k positives (3.7% infection rate; UK 23k tests, 319 positives (1.4%)

By comparison the US seems to be running at nearly 30% infection rate (positives/tests). Suggests true US infection rate possibly 10x what's been confirmed so far?

President Trump just now: "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total." Fact Check: That is definitely not true.

If only Abe could see what's become of his country...and his GOP

So true...

We are greatly saddened beyond belief to announce the death of our spiritual leader Sir Ronald Halstead CBE, a scion of business, who served us as Chairman for over 20 years, then President, then Patron. He was one of a kind **thank you Ron from the bottom of our hearts**

I've set up a fundraising page in memory of Sir Ronald Halstead for The Salvation Army on JustGiving. Donate now justgiving.com/fundraising/si…