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Raw wine buff hunting for lost grape varieties, with a nose for archaeology and anthropology. Currently based in Tarragona, Catalunya. 🔴 The Wine Feed 🍷 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e3e7swwpys4eam6l7tky65zv/feed/aaafmkm2g6yxo

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Jan 15

I am in the process of updating the WineSky wine feed with new posters, hashtags and keywords. The feed has been relocated to @graze.social and should be a lot faster from now on🍷

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

Rosorange: is the latest wine trend here to stay? | Hannah Crosbie on drinks

It’s all looking peachy for this crossbreed rosé and orange wine at the moment. But how long will the party last?

www.theguardian.com

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Jul 27

Min intervention wines with 10% ABV, striking labeling + packaging. A crisp and clean Parellada presented in a beer bottle + one anarchic Macabeo & Trepat blend that felt like falling into a volcanic crater filled with candies. Rene Barbier Jr. is having a midlife crisis and has come up with this.

Two bottles on wines with a label which looks like a B monster movie from the 50's, packaged in a bottle of beer.

Holding one bottle of rose wine with a striking label.

Holding one bottle of win with a label which looks like a B monster movie from the 50's, packaged in a bottle of beer, against a trailer set in an open field on which an artist is playing the guitar.

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Jun 10

This phase of US history will be permanently remembered as the deranged period. Hope EU wine exporters will fill the gap 🍷🍷🍷

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Jun 9

Wow when I saw this post, it was so wild, I had to look up the raw trade data for myself.

Sure enough, U.S. wine exports to Canada have fallen off a cliff:

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · May 29

You got to love the small wine importer from Oregon (VOS Selections) who managed to stand up to Trump’s “liberation day” tariff scheme, which has now been declared illegal by a US Court.

US trade court says Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal

Panel of judges finds president did not have authority to introduce levies using the legislation he cited

www.ft.com

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · May 17

Despite water levels returning close to 80%, the future for winemakers in Catalonia looks uncertain. Agriculture (more intensive by the year thanks to food speculation) is increasingly dependent on irrigation, which adds to the scarcity problem. More irrigation is definitely not the solution.

Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’

Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ time

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Apr 20

Big fan of the whole Black Mirror anthology. First episode felt especially real since it's very plausible that "regenerative" brain implants will become the next big thing.

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Apr 20

Close encounter with a bottle of Godello produced from Vinos al Margen from the Zamora region. Made with minimal intervention from old vines at 900 metres altitude, it became extremely addictive and complex after we left the bottle open for 20min.
#NaturalWines

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · Mar 13

Counterintuitive, but: this will crush the US wine industry. Booze gets to market on distributors' trucks. These fleets need volume to run efficiently. Subtract EU wine from the equation & it no longer pencils out. Any gains from less competition would likely be paid back out in margin loss.

George Pearkes @peark.es · Mar 13

Hope y'all have stockpiled your grand cru and brandy

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Mar 13

Deserves an epic crash, followed by impeachment, followed never be seen or heard again.

Monovitis @monovitis.com · Mar 13

Trumpagne

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Monovitis @monovitis.com · Feb 2

Not just Canada.

Monovitis @monovitis.com · Feb 2

Often overlooked but we have a wine feed too with some of the best!

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Feb 2

Here's a fact most Americans don't know:
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wine by dollar value in the world.
The LCBO has shut the flow of all American beer, wine, spirits.
We will drink "Freedom wines" from our allies and beer from our communities.