From my recent newsletter and MW course says in London.

“I’m going on record to say that Natasha Hughes MW (Natasha Hughes MW) is lovely, and if anyone tells you otherwise, well, they obviously haven’t been studying hard enough.”

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Yikes.

1,130 VINEYARDS IN BRITAIN COVERING ALMOST 10,500-acres (4,239-ha)

Is your vineyard listed? Please check.

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Please ReTweet (or should that be Re-X?)

Back on here for a day or so to moan about some wine news. The good old heydays.

“The blend they settled on has a base wine made in Franschhoek, South Africa, which is imported to England, and fermented for a second time in Hampshire.”

This garbage should be illegal/fraudulent pretending it’s British made. thetimes.co.uk/article/the-mu…

It’s me. Chatting wine, as usual.

Full podcast episode in the thread.

Henry and I chatted about his fascinating new book Vines in a Cold Climate, which explores how English wine got to where it is today atlantic-books.co.uk/book/vines-in-…

Such a nice afternoon recording this with Patrick Galbraith chatting Flint Vineyard .

And a very good listen from ever fantastic Henry Jeffreys' book is full of swearing

Some inspiration for remembering regions and styles of wines.

Just like writing things down helps you to remember them, so does drawing pictures of them.

However terrible they may be, taking the time to draw these terrible maps has actually helped me!

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Some more stuff on blind tastings, MW style.

Going through a phase that feels like I’m getting better at practical, but worse at theory…

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The solution to this entire mess is very simple. Do nothing & leave the easement in place. Miles Beale from the WSTA had a meeting with Gareth Davies MP last Thursday. It was spelt out to him very clearly. So there can be no doubt he knows what he should be doing on Wednesday.

This 👇🏼 please…

WSTA Wine Drinkers UK The Wine Society Laithwaites Majestic Wine Concha y Toro UK Accolade Wines Penfolds Kingsland Drinks Lee Isaacs Dan Kirby Hallgarten & Novum Wines Hal Wilson Drinks Retailing The Wine Merchant

This is going to be an exciting release from Flint Vineyard.

A Pinot Noir and a Chardonnay from the 2022 vintage.

Mike from BinTwo tried something and I think more people should try things they’re told not to…

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Let’s have a check in on quality and sales figures first before we start patting ourselves on the back too heartily.

Read Dan Kirby's piece on how to consume liquids and solids together.

This weeks newsletter:

This week’s newsletter is an instructional lesson in how to eat food and consume liquids. Preferably at the same time for maximum enjoyment.

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