If you’ve ever met Mateus you will have witnessed the passion that goes into this exceptional, individual #Douro wine. It’s certainly not your A-Typical Douro,rightly so! ⁦Charles Metcalfe⁩ ⁦@sarahwine⁩ ⁦Wines of Portugal⁩ ⁦Best of Portugal 🇵🇹⁩ ⁦wine thinker (robertjoseph on Bluesky)⁩

What is this bush?

This morning a food paired masterclass for Vinho Verde

looks good for a Tuesday in San Francisco

Enjoying sunset at Coeur d’Alene lake Idaho.

Hayden Idaho farmers market offers the unusual for your cabin!

Wine Market Council Appoints Dr. Liz Thach as New President, Succeeding Dale Stratton wineindustryadvisor.com/2023/08/02/win… via @wineindustry. Congratulations to Liz!

instagram.com/reel/CvVt6tdNq…. Just remember what she said. It’s as true today as it was then.

A benefit of country life. And the fruit pies are good too!

Line up for dinner with my Fine Vintage Bordeaux tour group from “Cork & Flame” Augusta GA. Guess the stand out wine!

The perfect place for this visit. Congratulations Florence and Daniel.

Marco Balsimelli steps up to be Production Director of Masseto and Ornellaia from January 2024. He studied oenology and viticulture at the University of Florence before heading to Faculté d’Oenologie in Bdx and working at Gruaud Larose. Since 2010, he has worked as a consultant

My host said we would finish the meal with ‘06 ⁦Château Coutet⁩ - omitting to mention from which century…

Well deserved top 10 entry ! Chianti Classico Marchesi Antinori mn.gamberorosso.it/nl/link?c=et86…

One of my most favourite MW colleagues Tim Wildman on being the world’s most disruptive MW  the-buyer.net/people/tim-wil….

SNL did a segment mocking Trump for using the word de-bank: "Trump introduced an interesting new term: de-banking. I don't know what the hell de-bank even means." This is what happens when you live in your own echo chamber. Not one SNL writer or audience member realized that

The ingenuity of this is wonderful.

As someone who did their thesis on Bernstein, this brought a tear to my eye. Worth two and a half minutes of your time…

Must be Chianti Classico🍷

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