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Big announcement: the new 4th edition is out! Now also available in two volumes (easier to carry, read, underline...). Hope it helps 🙏
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Top 10 wine euphemisms:
1. subtle = absent
2. delicate = thin
3. refreshing = watery
4. lively = heart burn
5. bracing = toilet cleaner
6. ambitious = drowning in oak
7. rich = overripe
8. interesting, rustic = shit
9. assertive, pungent = foul
10. unique = wtf
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Oh I give up, no one knows how to hold a wine glass anymore
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Alcoholism prevention poster, France, circa 1954: 'Health, sobriety: never more than a litre of wine a day'. Two years later, in 1956, the consumption of alcohol was outlawed in schools for children under 14.
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12 things that wine inspired me to learn about:
1. Geography
2. Geology
3. Meteorology
4. Biology
5. Agriculture
6. Chemistry
7. Gastronomy
8. History
9. Languages
10. Literature
11. Psychology
12. Philosophy
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Top 10 wine euphemisms:
1. subtle = absent
2. delicate = thin
3. refreshing = watery
4. lively = heart burn
5. bracing = toilet cleaner
6. ambitious = drowning in oak
7. rich = overripe
8. interesting = shit
9. assertive = foul
10. unique = wtf
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It can be no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
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I drink
#Champagne
when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I'm thirsty.
—Lily Bollinger
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The mechanized method of wax sealing bottles. I am told the machine was recently invented in Dijon.
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W/ summer over, let's do a
#photocompetition
on the theme of wine travel! 🍷✈️📸
I'll send a copy of my book to whomever, in my opinion, replies to this tweet w/ the best pic (& RTs this tweet).
If you already have it, it'll make a good Xmas gift 🙂
Deadline: 5 Oct @ 10pm BST
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I think the champagne industry has been rescued tonight.
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Pie, chestnuts, and Lebanon's finest, at its finest 🍂
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12 things that wine inspired me to learn about:
1. Geography
2. Geology
3. Meteorology
4. Biology
5. Agriculture
6. Chemistry
7. Art
8. History
9. Languages
10. Literature
11. Psychology
12. Philosophy
& most useful of all, cooking, for passable pairings
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Old school
#Rioja
, 90% Tempranillo, 10 Graciano, released after a full 10 years. Silky tannins but infinite power, with a balsamic mid-palate and salty finish, and swirling in cherries, camphor, game, and vanilla.
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Wines poured at the French state banquet for King Charles 👑
- Pol Roger, Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill 2013 en magnum (biensûr)
- Olivier Leflaive, Bâtard Montrachet 2018 en magnum
- Château Mouton Rothschild 2004 en jeroboam
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Many people, even some winelovers, will die without ever having known the great glory that is a mature Gewurztraminer.
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First copy of the reprint ordered just *three months* after first publication. Thanks for all the kind words I've received so far x
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After the week I've had, I really needed this ultimate pick-me-up. Bon weekend!
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Weekend wine. 1995 an outstanding vintage for Hermitage, and this seems at peak 👌
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Essence of Naoussa, made by a union of growers from scattered vineyards. These wines deserve to be better known.
#Xinomavro
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I don't understand the concept of dry January. Wine is good for you if you know how to use it. Instead of coming on and off it, just learn how to use it.
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By the (generous) glass! Waiter: "You're the first person to ever order this." 🤦♂️
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Sancerre can also be red, and, blind, you might well be in Volnay.
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To 🎉 16K followers, let's do a
#photocompetition
on the theme of wine education! 🍷🎓📸
I'll send a copy of ⬇️ to whomever, in my opinion, replies to this tweet w/ the best pic (& RTs this tweet).
If you already have it, it'll make a good Xmas gift 🙂
Deadline: 8 Nov @ 10pm GMT
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Penfolds dinner tonight, can't wait to taste the Grange!
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Burgundy in South Africa. This is really top-notch now at ten years old, still fresh and flinty with tertiary notes like hazlenuts, butterscotch, and tarte tatin coming through. Pairing with a glazed side of salmon 😋
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make the wine, and a lover to drink it.
—Salvador Dalí
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Rheingau, but Albariño (!) rather than Riesling. Oddly enables you to see what's Albariño and what's Rheingau, if that makes sense. Chiselled body, smoke, and five spice must be coming from Rheingau. Stunning wine.
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All things being equal, I would still prefer a cork over a screwcap, simply for the pleasure of uncorking the wine. Wine is not orange juice or milk. As a gateway to the sacred, it demands ritual.
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Oh oh, it's 1 January and I've already had my wine of the year. Surprisingly open and giving, like a drag queen on a stage.
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It's all a bit glum and we're all missing travel, so let's do a photo competition on the theme of wine travel! 🍷🛩️🚄🚗🚢😎
I'll send a copy of my book to whomever, in my opinion, replies to this tweet with the best picture (and RTs this tweet)
Closing date: 25 Oct @ 22:00 GMT.
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Two possible covers for the new edition of the wine & blind tasting book.
Which should I go with, 1 or 2?
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This is a really stunning Rías Baixas Albariño. I came back to it the next day and it had acquired a kind of Burgundian creaminess that contrasted beautifully with its crisp salinity. The perfect wine for shellfish.
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Greek Orthodox take on Barolo, by a sixth generation winemaker trained in Burgundy. Biodynamic, natural fermentation, unfiltered, and the list goes on. Yes, I did miss Europe.
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From old goblet vines on a steep south-facing slope of blue diorite at the top of Mont Brouilly. Flora and fragrant with crunchy fruit underlain by remarkable acid structure, spice, and ink. Supple now at 5 yo. Pairing with steak tartare 😋
#Beaujolais
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To mark 15k followers, and thank you all, let's do a photo competition on the theme of wine education. 🍷🎓
I'll send a copy of my book to whomever, in my opinion, replies to this tweet with the best picture & caption (and RTs this tweet).
Closing date: 29 Mar @ 22:00 BST.
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Is it acceptable to drink French wine with Italian food? Actually this is so good I don't care.
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Versace ice bucket? Nope, this 2,400-year-old situla, used for cooling and serving wine at banquets, is actually from Classical Greece. Spotted at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.
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Well
@British_Airways
have seriously upped their wine game. Everyone staring at me for tasting wine at 5am, but breakfast is just a convention and the Ancient Greeks used to have wine with theirs.
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Sorry to interrupt, but you've put too much wine in your glasses.
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Ah my copies have arrived!
Do get in touch if you'd like a review copy for your publication or blog (limited number available).
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
—Ernest Hemingway
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So many exciting wines coming out of Spain these days, like this silky Bobal from 90-year-old vines in Utiel-Requena. As soon as I pulled out the cork, it jumped at me with redcurrants, violets, and saffron. And all that for €18.
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When I was in Roussillon, I walked into the region's best wine shop (Vins d'Auteurs in Collioure) and asked the guy which local wines I should absolutely try. This chiselled, mineral Grenache Blanc/Gris by Olivier Pithon was the first white wine that he recommended.
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My last bottle of the outrageous 2002. Not sure how long it will be until I drink another champagne that's so perfect...
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Making a duck ragu tonight, so it had to be this. Think fine Bordeaux with underpants.
#Madiran
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Talking about wax capsules, in Burgundy last year I came across this machine, the vinous equivalent of the printed signature.
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Serious, mature Chinon from very old vines (some 100+ yo) in a single south-facing vineyard. Cost: £16.
#Loire
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Best £10 wine I've ever tasted, and I can say that now that I've secured a case of it. V old vines, some centennarian, of Carignan, Grenache & Mourvèdre, with pronounced notes of violets, forest floor, and chocolate torte. There are still some unicorns in wine.
#roussillon
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How's New Zealand's top Chardonnay doing at 9 years old? Well, you might well be in Pouilly Fuissé were it not for the still vivid streak of lime.
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Our book won 'Best in the World - 2nd place' for wine education!
#GourmandAwards
http://t.co/LjTc8e3z9o
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Interesting little experiment comparing the same 2013 Riesling aged under cork (left) vs screwcap.
—First, they were v different!
—Second, the one under screwcap seemed a lot younger, & more 'correct'.
—But, both Hiro and I clearly preferred the one under cork.
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The barman has no clue, charges the same price for everything. I'm wondering, should I tell him?
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7 things in my life that got better with wine:
1. Sense of smell/taste
2. Attention to detail
3. Aesthetic judgement
4. Cooking skills/meals
5. Language skills
6. Holidays/suntan
7. Friendships
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A firm favourite at my table, this one. Fun fact: Trousseau (Maturana tinta) was common in Rioja pre-phylloxera, and, since 2007, has been permitted for red Rioja.
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Stunning 33-year-old Riesling from a grand cru vineyard, harvested on 3 October 1990, the day of German reunification. €5.50 a huge glass (as seen). Yet everyone is picking the €4.00 Dornfelder—because most Germans don't believe that wine white can age 🤦♂️
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Just received the galley proofs for the new edition! Many thanks to all those who helped me choose the cover 🙏
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I could only fit so many bottles in my suitcase, but these are the eight I chose to bring back from Germany. Especially excited about the 2005 Rheingau Pinot Noir!
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Cahors is the original Malbec, known locally as Cot. Think Bordeaux with attitude.
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A white Chinon! Only 80ha of Chenin Blanc in the appelation, including 5ha at Domaine de la Noblaie. Tasting note: zingy and minerally, with notes of lemon, grapefruit, Granny Smith apple, mint, and tarragon, and a chalky, slightly creamy finish.
#Loire
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Every so often I run out of imagination and fall back on great Burgundy
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Now that it's getting dark & cold, let's do a photo competition on the theme of wine travel! 🍷✈️🚘☀️😎
I'll send a copy of my book to whomever, in my opinion, replies to this tweet w/ the best picture (& RTs this tweet).
The perfect 🎄 gift
Closing date: Friday @ 22:00 GMT
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This wine behaves as though it were alive, and completely resonates with the soul that I had forgotten I had.
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A restaurant is good when the cooking is better than your own.
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Our guesses on this wine:
—Puligny
—Pouilly
—Chablis.
We were all wrong, though we did discuss the possibility of Australia and then wrote it off.
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Beaufort is, dare I say, the most noble cheese of Savoie and one of the best cheeses in the world. Its creamy subtlety owes in part to its low cooking temperature compared to, say, Gruyère or Comté. The wheel is massive!
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The Heidelberg Tun in Heidelberg Castle is the largest wine barrel in the world. It's 7m high and is topped by a... dance floor. It has a capacity of 220,000l to withstand any siege.
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10 things in my life that got better with wine:
1. Sense of smell/taste
2. Attention to detail
3. Aesthetic judgement
4. Deductive skills
5. Cooking skills/meals
6. Language skills
7. Holidays/suntan
8. Friendships
9. Fromage
10. Xenophobia
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It came late, but this was my wine of the year, a Marqués de Cáceres Rioja Reserva 1970, when Spain was still under Franco. Very occasionally, wine can amount to a transcendental experience that stops everything in its tracks.
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The same wine, ten years apart. Great Rieslings need time.
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One of the unsung benefits of wine knowledge is that you can judge the style/quality of a restaurant in a snap, just by its wine offering. Saves a lot of grief/money/wasted life.
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To celebrate reaching 10K followers, I will send a signed copy of my book to whomever, in my opinion, best answers the following question: What is the oldest vineyard in the European Union? I'll pick a winner at midnight (GMT) tonight.
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Top 10 Winglish euphemisms
1. subtle = absent
2. delicate = thin
3. refreshing = watery
4. lively = heartburn
5. bracing = toilet cleaner
6. ambitious = drowning in oak
7. rich = overripe
8. interesting, rustic = shit
9. assertive, pungent = foul
10. unique = wtf
Add your own
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My first winery visit in NZ, to Kumeu River, near Auckland. Their wines are often mistaken for fine Burgundy, despite their soils of clay. Interestingly, they use the lyre trellising system, for three reasons: increased aeration, increased sun exposure, decreased vigour.
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Burgundy meets Barolo in
#Roussillon
. V old vines, some centennarian, of Carignan, Grenache & Mourvèdre. Haunting wine, for a snip.
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Before Riesling became all the rage, black varieties dominated the Rheingau. I wonder if the wines were as good as this one?
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This grand cru is the best Pinot Blanc (Weißburgunder) that I have ever tasted! Whereas in Alsace they look down upon the variety, in
#Pfalz
they rather cherish it.
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Wonderful to nurse this treasure as it changes in the glass 😍
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As far as I know, the oldest wine producer in the world is Château de Goulaine in the Loire, since circa 1000! It's also the third oldest business in the world.
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At
@JancisRobinson
Greek wine night. A bit like a child in a sweetshop, so many novel experiences. And possibly the first time I've tasted wine from 200-year-old vines (Santorini, biensûr).
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Typical wine list in France: 26 pages of French wines with one token page at the back for 'Rest of the World'.
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Sancerre meets white Bordeaux... Except that it's from South Africa... and great value!
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Beautiful Montilla fino that has spent several years (6, 10, 12...?) under flor. Made from 100% Pedro Ximenez and therefore unfortified. A marvel with the Japanese tapas!
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This is insane: a 1697 Malvasia from a cask that was recovered from the cellar of a house in
#Tenerife
. It's like crude oil and still smells of molasses, dried apricots, and figs. Viñatigo turned it into the base for a tiny solera that produces three bottles a year!
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Alcoholism prevention poster, France, circa 1954:
"Health, sobriety: never more than a litre of wine a day."
Two years later, in 1956, the consumption of alcohol was outlawed in schools for children under 14.
#lunchbox
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In Indian mythology, there are several heavens, or lokas, and one of them is for Pinot Noir.
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