Angela Lloyd
@angelalloyd.bsky.social
Things that mean much to me: wine, food, books, travel, music & other arts, dogs & other animals, sports, growing things & friends.
Technical & artistic brilliance.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Technical & artistic brilliance.
Just arrived; looking forward to reading & discovering how much being sustainable sometimes follows a twisted path. Thanks for tackling a very important subject @hernehillandy.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Just arrived; looking forward to reading & discovering how much being sustainable sometimes follows a twisted path. Thanks for tackling a very important subject @hernehillandy.bsky.social
I’m not afraid to admit when
I’m wrong & I was about this wine. Peter-Allan Finlayson was, understandably not so happy.
All it needed was time to harmonise & evolve to its complex layers of pinot’s pure, dark fruit with the freshness to focus & let them linger.
How much I’m enjoying this!
I’m wrong & I was about this wine. Peter-Allan Finlayson was, understandably not so happy.
All it needed was time to harmonise & evolve to its complex layers of pinot’s pure, dark fruit with the freshness to focus & let them linger.
How much I’m enjoying this!
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’m not afraid to admit when
I’m wrong & I was about this wine. Peter-Allan Finlayson was, understandably not so happy.
All it needed was time to harmonise & evolve to its complex layers of pinot’s pure, dark fruit with the freshness to focus & let them linger.
How much I’m enjoying this!
I’m wrong & I was about this wine. Peter-Allan Finlayson was, understandably not so happy.
All it needed was time to harmonise & evolve to its complex layers of pinot’s pure, dark fruit with the freshness to focus & let them linger.
How much I’m enjoying this!
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Congratulations:The Golden Vines Slate Aviation World’s Best Rising Star Award – Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines, South Africa and The Golden Vines Amorim Cork Innovation Award – Rosa Kruger, The Old Vine Project, South Africa harpers.co.uk/news/fullsto...
2025 Golden Vines Award winners announced - Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News
On 8 November 2025, the winners of the 2025 Golden Vines Awards were announced in a ceremony at the Faena Forum in Miami. Winners included Weingut Egon...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Congratulations:The Golden Vines Slate Aviation World’s Best Rising Star Award – Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines, South Africa and The Golden Vines Amorim Cork Innovation Award – Rosa Kruger, The Old Vine Project, South Africa harpers.co.uk/news/fullsto...
South African wine in the 1970s was highly regulated, quantity was valued more than quality. Red Tape is the story of Tim Hamilton Russell who wanted to produce world class wines, but vines were illegal where he wanted to plant.
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As things were then
The South African wine industry was nothing if not arcane in the 1970s; to some degree it still is, but nowhere near that impenetrable era. In her book, Red Tape, Bridgid Hamilton Russell tells the…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
South African wine in the 1970s was highly regulated, quantity was valued more than quality. Red Tape is the story of Tim Hamilton Russell who wanted to produce world class wines, but vines were illegal where he wanted to plant.
outofthepress.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a...
outofthepress.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a...
The Swartland, home to golden wheat in rolling fields, to green, eager vines climbing the mountain sides. Taken today in the lush of spring, much wheat yet to be harvested, the vines starting to flower. It’s an inspirational region of the Cape.
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Swartland, home to golden wheat in rolling fields, to green, eager vines climbing the mountain sides. Taken today in the lush of spring, much wheat yet to be harvested, the vines starting to flower. It’s an inspirational region of the Cape.
New book on the shelves, a memoir of Tim Hamilton-Russell by his daughter, Brigid. She has unearthed much otherwise unknown information about this advertising executive/wine-farmer pioneer in the Hemel-en-Aarde valley. He was also an
Incubator of many of today’s winemaker stars in the valley.
Incubator of many of today’s winemaker stars in the valley.
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New book on the shelves, a memoir of Tim Hamilton-Russell by his daughter, Brigid. She has unearthed much otherwise unknown information about this advertising executive/wine-farmer pioneer in the Hemel-en-Aarde valley. He was also an
Incubator of many of today’s winemaker stars in the valley.
Incubator of many of today’s winemaker stars in the valley.
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New from me in Club Oenoloqique: facing up to #wine’s biggest challenge, sustainability cluboenologique.com/story/rooted...
Facing up to wine’s biggest challenge
This extract from new book 'Rooted in Change' explains why it’s time for the wine industry to get to grips with sustainability – and what the future could look like
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October 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
New from me in Club Oenoloqique: facing up to #wine’s biggest challenge, sustainability cluboenologique.com/story/rooted...
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In part 1 of 2 in-depth reports on #CapeWine2025 @thebuyer11.bsky.social analyses the opportunites South Africa has to take its wines to another level & challenges it still faces to get buyers to pay the more premium prices it expects & wants for its wines www.the-buyer.net/insight/cape...
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In part 1 of 2 in-depth reports on #CapeWine2025 @thebuyer11.bsky.social analyses the opportunites South Africa has to take its wines to another level & challenges it still faces to get buyers to pay the more premium prices it expects & wants for its wines www.the-buyer.net/insight/cape...
In September 2023, a storm devastated the Hemel-en-Aarde valley; the river separating north from south-facing slopes cascaded, sweeping away every bridge. The road through the valley is still under repair, the scarred mountain slopes will never be. Fortunately, few vineyards were severely damaged.
October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In September 2023, a storm devastated the Hemel-en-Aarde valley; the river separating north from south-facing slopes cascaded, sweeping away every bridge. The road through the valley is still under repair, the scarred mountain slopes will never be. Fortunately, few vineyards were severely damaged.
This shouldn’t be divisive, but probably will, pinotage can be refined, as this is. Sleek & silky with pure raspberry/strawberry flavours, freshness & neat tannin trim.
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This shouldn’t be divisive, but probably will, pinotage can be refined, as this is. Sleek & silky with pure raspberry/strawberry flavours, freshness & neat tannin trim.
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
This shouldn’t be divisive, but probably will, pinotage can be refined, as this is. Sleek & silky with pure raspberry/strawberry flavours, freshness & neat tannin trim.
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
October 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This shouldn’t be divisive, but probably will, pinotage can be refined, as this is. Sleek & silky with pure raspberry/strawberry flavours, freshness & neat tannin trim.
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
The next few days are peak pinotage with its centenary art celebrations as a pinot x cinsaut cross
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Do you like old vineyards, and the wines made from them? Do you have opinions about old vines that you'd be willing to share? The Old Vine Conference is doing a survey at the moment. Please consider participating: mailchi.mp/oldvines....
October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Do you like old vineyards, and the wines made from them? Do you have opinions about old vines that you'd be willing to share? The Old Vine Conference is doing a survey at the moment. Please consider participating: mailchi.mp/oldvines....
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Lovely way to spend an afternoon.
Alpabzug: Swiss cattle returning from their summer pastures in the mountains.
Around 280,000 Swiss cattle spend summers on high-altitude grazing sites, and their return in fall is celebrated.
Pictured: this weekend's Alpabzug/scarico alpeggi in the Valle Verzasca in Ticino.
Around 280,000 Swiss cattle spend summers on high-altitude grazing sites, and their return in fall is celebrated.
Pictured: this weekend's Alpabzug/scarico alpeggi in the Valle Verzasca in Ticino.
October 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Lovely way to spend an afternoon.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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What a terrible legacy
100 Years of Pinotage. In 1925, Dr. Abraham Izak Perold planted the first Pinotage seeds.
More at pinotage.co.za/about/herita...
More at pinotage.co.za/about/herita...
October 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What a terrible legacy
Amen! And, with respect, whatever @davidroundmw.bsky.social might say about other forms of sustainability, inc adapting for climate change, there are still many who practise that, yet use unnecessarily heavy bottles.
WINERIES: If Petrus can sell for $4500 in a bottle weighing 550 grams there's NO F*CKING plausible excuse for bottling your wine in glass weighing 950 grams. It's a big middle finger to the environment, & speaks volumes about your ego. Thank you for your attention on this matter.
September 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Amen! And, with respect, whatever @davidroundmw.bsky.social might say about other forms of sustainability, inc adapting for climate change, there are still many who practise that, yet use unnecessarily heavy bottles.
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Or as Andrew Jefford has said, “This fascinating, limpidly written and admirably researched book shines a light on the price we’re all evading: #wine’s strangely tentacular environmental footprint. Read it to understand – and to help.” Order from academieduvinlibrary.com/products/roo...
Rooted in Change: The Stories Behind Sustainable Wine by Jane Masters MW and Andrew Neather
Rooted in Change explores how the wine industry can adapt to climate change through sustainability, innovation, and ethical practices worldwide.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Or as Andrew Jefford has said, “This fascinating, limpidly written and admirably researched book shines a light on the price we’re all evading: #wine’s strangely tentacular environmental footprint. Read it to understand – and to help.” Order from academieduvinlibrary.com/products/roo...
Ridiculous number of ultra-weight bottles in South Africa too.
Lighten up! Lighten up
& stop fooling yourselves the wine is better in a heavier bottle.
Lighten up! Lighten up
& stop fooling yourselves the wine is better in a heavier bottle.
My Wine Wall of Shame: The Heavy Bottle Dilemma in Wine Industry | the drunken cyclist thedrunkencyclist.com/2025/09/17/m...
My Wine Wall of Shame: The Heavy Bottle Dilemma in Wine Industry
Last week, I tried to figure out when I started mentioning bottle weight in my tasting notes. It has certainly been for several years now and I distinctly remember being out on a bit of an island w…
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September 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Ridiculous number of ultra-weight bottles in South Africa too.
Lighten up! Lighten up
& stop fooling yourselves the wine is better in a heavier bottle.
Lighten up! Lighten up
& stop fooling yourselves the wine is better in a heavier bottle.
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Ain't nothin better than tasting Chenin Blanc all day. Here are my tasting notes and thoughts from the Hella Chenin wine festival held earlier this year. www.vinography.com/2... #winethreads
Hella Good: Tasting Notes from Hella Chenin
You’d be hard pressed to find someone more excited than I about the ascendancy of Chenin Blanc from obscurity to—well,
www.vinography.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ain't nothin better than tasting Chenin Blanc all day. Here are my tasting notes and thoughts from the Hella Chenin wine festival held earlier this year. www.vinography.com/2... #winethreads
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#muzak 48yrs ago
Peter Gabriel - Biko
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
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September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#muzak 48yrs ago
Okay, so tennis, cricket &
rugby are my things; who to follow. Go!
rugby are my things; who to follow. Go!
Noticing that sports Bluesky keeps getting better...
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Okay, so tennis, cricket &
rugby are my things; who to follow. Go!
rugby are my things; who to follow. Go!
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Excellent piece on the upcoming Old Vine Conference in California. Call all old vine aficionados. It's gonna be awesome! -
Old Is New: Global Old Vine Conference Comes to California
This fall, celebrate old vine wines with like-minded growers and producers By Alexandra Russell In 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown,
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August 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Excellent piece on the upcoming Old Vine Conference in California. Call all old vine aficionados. It's gonna be awesome! -
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Nothing is more likely to turn me into a frothing-at-the-mouth bomber than the sheer arrogance about the way Vance cheerfully imposes this massive bullshit on a village, with no consideration for the locals, for his holiday. Honestly, fuck off back to America, you enormous selfish arsehole.
The village of Dean has entered a lockdown for the imminent arrival of US vice-president JD Vance. All entrances to the village (between Chipping Norton and Charlbury) are closed to non-residents, with police stationed at every road and even footpath.
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Nothing is more likely to turn me into a frothing-at-the-mouth bomber than the sheer arrogance about the way Vance cheerfully imposes this massive bullshit on a village, with no consideration for the locals, for his holiday. Honestly, fuck off back to America, you enormous selfish arsehole.