So tired of UPS wine boxes. All producers add tape nonstop. So hard to open almost not worth it. #wine

master class in the truth. Magnificent

Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux is planning a split from the regional grouping. Lots of possibilities: bid by Saint-Emilion to make neighbouring Castillon a satellite; or Saint-Emilion wants to create second labels in Castillon. Could just be they think they need their own promotion.

My partner can tell me if he likes Mahler 3 or Beethoven 5. I can tell him if I liked the Beach Boys or Beatles.

Yes, many bottles. But then I am English and I call it Worcester sauce. Or Lea & Perrins

Château Montus and Château Bouscassé (red, white and sweet) from Madiran were served at the official lunch between Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping today. Great for owner Alain Brumont and to shine a light on this southwest France region.

Heavy mildew pressure right across the vineyards in south-west France. More rain today. Bordeaux risks being 100% affected. There is serious spraying going on.

It's time once again for the Heineken Eurovulsion Song Contest from 1986 with the Spitting Image puppets

We often have good bottles in our room when we stay in hotels. Tonight it is Domaine Vrignaud 2012 Chablis Premier Cru Fourchaume Vieilles Vignes. Better than the hotel room service food.

President Macron calls French parliamentary elections after victory of Far Right in European elections. Worry is that this will give a fast lane for Marine le Pen to assume power in France.

One of the greatest symphonies of all, Mahler's 9th, premiered 112 years ago today. #NowListening to a "pointless, aesthetically bankrupt" (David Hurwitz) period instrument #NewRelease, followed by Claudio Abbado (born #OTD 1933) in Lucerne, hailed by some as the greatest ever.

Covering car parks with solar panels is a hell of a lot more logical than plastering them over prime farmland.

With dinner nearly every evening, we listen to In Our Time (BBC Melvyn Bragg). There are 1000+ programs. Almost all are interesting. Go find one. bbc.co.uk/programmes/pro…

The job of a government is to give the people confidence. Watching Tony Blair on Sky News this evening: he did it. Can Michel Barnier or Keir Starmer?

Dear grandkids, If you want to save your future and the United States, watch the debate and vote for Harris and Democrats in Senate, House and state, local. Just do it. Vote. Love for your future from your grandma.

Inhabitants of St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. These islands, inhabited since antiquity, were evacuated in 1930.

This kind of tweet from Larry the Cat reminds me why I bother to remain on what I still call Twitter

For the millionth time. Cincinnati is the most underrated city in America.

We need more of this. This is Catania, Sicily.