There are worse ways to celebrate starting a new job.... #rioja with a massive great roast rib of beef. Very excited! #wine #winetrade

Was just at the BBR en primeur tasting for burgundy, and honestly the quality of the '23 vintage is pretty astonishing, be sure to stock up if you can, heard that '24 might be in very short supply

Why does duckduckgo have an AI chat feature? What duckduckgo user wants that?!??!

It has been a hard year for the wine industry, especially in the UK, but the important thing to remember at the end of the day, is that wine is still bloody lovely

A little Thompson Christmas tradition, a full English in a single bite! Paired with champagne, of course!

At what point is is time to have the conversation whether #guiness deserves its market share or if there are better #stout (s) available?

After all these years, have only just clicked that the Mr Bean titles have words. ‘Ecce homo qui est faba’ (behold, man who is Bean); ‘finem ex parte unum’ (end of part one) and ‘pars secunda’ (part two) and ‘vale homo qui est faba’ (‘goodbye, man who is Bean’

I think its going to be a very interesting year to read about as people analyse both the wine vintage and the socio-economic impact of 2024

Whatever was in these bottles, others with the same labels were produced from different grapes elsewhere in Soviet Union, including a 'wine factory' near Moscow.

Much used the now obsolete 'Russian Continuous' system www.leclubdesvins.com/topic/other-...

V cool - Roman wine barrels!

Doesn't look like there is much of a #whisky community on bluesky right now but I'm going to try to post about my journey to become a #distiller