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he/him head sommelier at La Trompette, writes about things, mostly vegetables and wine with added opinions.
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One very empty bus being escorted out of Peckham having failed to arrest the asylum seekers.
@SLAntiRaids
congratulations. Hope you were all ok.
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@oldenoughtosay
@ChrisCarpineti
Naming your kids after an angel and a demon is pretty special to start with 😂
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Phone out waiting for the bus and some shit on a bike snatches it. Chased him, caught and rugby tackled him to the ground. Made it onto the bus to a round of applause from all the ground floor passengers.
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Anyone know who the Morrisons fortified wine buyer is? I feel I need to send them an Xmas card 😅
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Lunch yesterday with Mark Fincham from Tawse Burgundy and he straight up said Burgandy has 20-30 years left as a wine region. Climate change and the scarcity of water will be the end of it.
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@devilwrstartan
@cardiffbites
Tory constituency. Want to bet they all clap for the nhs every Thursday?
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I want to normalise considering attending wine tastings as being work. Basically, when I go to your trade tasting on my day off, I’m spending my small amount of unpaid free time helping you to sell to my employer. Cheers.
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Have just found out I ordered 1.5kg of salsify from natoora while drunk last night.
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Pretty chuffed to see
@MichelinGuideUK
putting the
@LaTrompetteUk
wine list on their best lists in London shortlist. It’s quite the rarified company as well.
😀⭐️🍷🍾
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A lovely piece on how central pasta and lasagna in particular is to food culture in Eritrea 'our other injera'.
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So.
@LaTrompetteUk
have put up an amazing menu of classics to see out this difficult last couple of years. However we’ve had a bunch of cancellations. So if you’ve not sorted plans. Why don’t you come and join us?
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Normalise being open about who’s helped introduce you to the things you claim knowledge of. The supply chain of knowledge and influence is a beautiful thing and ought to be celebrated.
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Right, who wants to come and work with me
@LaTrompetteUk
? I'm going to be needing some new somms to join my team. I genuinely can't think of many other restaurants where you'll get to taste as much amazing wine as Trompette.
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Big news. The
@LaTrompetteUk
terrace opens as of Thursday. To say I’m excited is a bit of an understatement.
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@AyoCaesar
I mean they could stop and search every city boy out after 11pm on Friday night round Liverpool St....
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@drphiliplee1
They’d do it far more nonchalantly while talking animatedly about something you lost track of about 15 minutes previously and chain smoking.
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I have sat down in the office to write the report with a glass of wine and this was a mistake. I’m not sure I will stand up again.
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I felt like saying that if she thought that was ‘woke’ she should hear my views on the legacy of the empire, cycle lanes, the continued existence of the royal family, trans rights and her own bodily autonomy. 😂😂😂
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Well I've just cycled home after a NYE service dinner service. So many lovely guests, so much nice wine poured but god it feels good to get back to a glass of wine and a herbal tea. Here's to 2022. Let's all make lots of good things happen. :)
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New set speedy lunch menu
@LaTrompetteUk
for those days when you just want something delicious and simple.
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Not going to lie. I was far from unpleased to be left the best part of 1/4 of a bottle of each of these. A lovely end to a fun day.
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Just been to Frog bakery and they're having to change their name because Adam Handling has sent a cease and desist letter.
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Apparently I can’t put the phrase ‘an absolute cunts picnic’ in my end of day report to the directors 🙄😅
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@Clare_Jennifer
@siennamarla
@jeremycorbyn
And yet Corbyn for all his honour has given us Brexit and the most hardline tory govnt we've ever had...
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I have just thrown up an alkaselzer. This is a level of hangover I don’t think I’ve actually experienced before.
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Know anyone who might be right to come and work at La Trompette as my assistant? Please let them know.
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@LaupEdaw
@theJeremyVine
Brexit voters deserve all the shit they get. They pulled us out of Europe so frankly I’m going to luxuriate in their distress.
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I’ve just been told I’m terribly woke for asking who at the table (lady and a gentleman who ordered the wine) would like to taste said wine. 🙄.
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Sorry but this feels like a cliche that needs to be resigned to a long and distant past. Both in terms of rank generalisation and the implicit misogyny of the metaphor.
"Old world wines ask you to dance with them; New World wines push you prone onto a chair and give you a lap dance, no touching" Terry Theise / Reading Between The Wines
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For anyone who’s interested btw. Next Monday. Wright brothers battersea. An absolute feast of seafood, crab, a load of oysters and byo for us to all taste our way round as much English Chardonnay as possible (might bring a few benchmark wines as well).
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@demarionunn
New residents complaining about something that existed in a neighbourhood before they moved there is a perennial source of awfulness.
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Am shortly to drive to Dorset to go and see the Pinot I'm going to be buying for one of my wine making projects later this year. To say I'm excited is quite the understatement.
@SomeMondays
@LanghamWinery
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just a thought, but given how much shit is currently being pumped into our waterways and how our famers are being fucked over by trade deals with NZ & Aus. Maybe the best thing for British food producers would be rejoining Europe....
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@janemarie7650
@SLAntiRaids
Guess you don’t live anywhere near London. There’s no crime epidemic, just a load of dog whistle nonsense designed to terrify you into voting against your own interests.
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I'm going to run a series of wine lunches in the new year. They'll be on Mondays, they'll be cool as fuck.
To start with we're going to talk English Chardonnay and eat a load of crab.
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OK. Rant time. Wineries web sites can be almost impossible to find because Vivino/wine searcher/ various big retailers have paid/worked on their CEO to be all over the fucking search results. I'd like you to know that every time I try to find anything about my hatred grows.
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@stuarthelmer
It occurred to me as I cycled home last night that it’s particularly egregious in London where the roads are maintained by council tax in a city where a minority actually drive.
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@StoryfulNews
@SLAntiRaids
I’m sorry you’re owned by News Corp so I’m afraid I will have to decline. I hope you understand.
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@GPageOBRag
@elPadr0n
@Deviknyte
@urbanthoughts11
Ignorance (of road laws) is no defence (against stupidity). I’d love to see the insurance claim 😂
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@MarinaHyde
@sophable
Marina, genuinely couldn’t care where you’ve come from, your columns have been one of the few glimmers of light in the unending shit storm that’s been this election campaign.
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@AGildedEye
@sturdyAlex
@RobertJenrick
@mhclg
How is the flag that flew over a world wide empire, that presided over the invention of concentration camps, that flew during the multiple Indian famines a symbol of liberty and freedom?
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we need to stop glorifying sommeliers, the CMS scandal wouldn't have happened if we hadn't put somms on some stupid pedestal. It's a job, nothing more.
If they’re not on the floor of a restaurant, are they still sommeliers?
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Going to post this again because hardly anyone read it and I think it's really good. My piece on watercress, pepperishness in food as a concept and peppery flavours in wine.
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Hate to break it to everyone but the hype about Essex Pinot is absolutely valid.
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Why didn’t anyone tell me that Covid-19 looks like some terrifying Pinot clone?
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This is the content I've been waiting for. Articulating beautifully almost everything I feel is wrong about this long weekend.
From the earliest developments in Christian monarchy, royal ceremonies and celebrations have performed one main function: to justify power that is unjustifiable.
My view on the Platinum Jubilee as a medieval historian:
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@charliegilkes
@peterdavies4371
I'm about to suggest we reopen as a gym. Guests can lift weights (knives, forks, glasses etc) while carb loading with steak and rehydrating with red Burgundy
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@Redpeter99
I was diagnosed with adhd as a 12 year old in 1993 and there was a kid in my year who had a peanut allergy.
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@smrmerriman
Want to know how many drivers I see on my phone every morning while I cycle to work…
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Dear members of the restaurant going public. Please don't come and talk to me when I'm eating my staff dinner. It's the only time of the day I get to myself.
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This week I've been lucky enough to try pre-release bottles of
@LanghamWinery
Perpetual cuvee BdB and
@DanburyRidge
Solera no.2 and my word the future of English wine is exciting...
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@Heidi_LDN
@samjordison
@peterwalker99
I find it amazing how much London seems to compress in size as you cycle around it. Suddenly parts that seemed miles away become half an hour on the bike :)
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@peterarijs
pfffft, if you can't separate the technical aspects of wine education from the 'soul and poetry' of wine then WSET isn't the problem...
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I wrote something about Jersey Royals, how the maillard reaction makes things delicious and generational change in Meursault. Just kidding 😂. I actually wrote about how the British empire was drenched in blood from its inception.
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@BereniceHealey
Also French cheese; lazily coasting on centuries of tradition while moving most cheeses towards industrialised mediocrity.
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@MKarlDawes
@hugorifkind
@OzKaterji
Clearly? He’s happily lined his wife’s companies pockets while having no issues with it continuing to trade in Russia.
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@CyclingLawLDN
@MPSRoyal_Parks
Well done. Now prosecute every drive who close passes and breaks the speed limit.
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Wait till someone tells her about Anne Boleyn.
Hang on a minute! Meghan Markle might want to dispute that with the Daily Fail
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Just seen a YouTube video where a US somm says you should only send a wine back if it’s corked. Firstly he should never serve a corked wine and secondly, fuck that. If you don’t like a wine send it back, get a different one. No questions. That’s hospitality.
@bonappetit
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@WMN4SRVL
@ProperlyZuri
@KamalaHarris
going out on a limb here, but I don't think Kamala Harris is dependent on google rankings to get hits...
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For a lot of restaurants it's going to be like suddenly hitting the busiest part of Christmas, except with partial new teams and most of the existing staff not having worked for nearly half a year. Please be gentle with us.
And for customers - please remember for many it’s the first day after many long months. Be kind, bear with the team a little while they get back in the groove, and please pay service or tip well - it will be appreciated. And if plans change, please call to cancel a booking! 😃
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@MelissaCole
@jessbrammar
ha ha ha, the sarcasm on that stings like cut onions, fuck knows how anyone could miss it
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Tonight I successfully dealt with rush hour traffic back into Thessaloniki; then spotted a parking space round the corner from my air bnb and calmly reverse parallel parked down the steep hill into the space in one go while a bus was behind me. I'm now basically Greek.
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Also, please don’t tell me it’s a fun way to spend my day off. Tell me that when you host a tasting on your day off.
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@youngvulgarian
@MitchBenn
Person angling for a reaction gets the reaction they were angling for. Also, can we say she was TERFed our?
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Temp employee worked on Saturday, arrived at 7 dressed incredibly scruffily,left at 9.10ish without saying anything but signed into the work app at 6 and out at 12.01. Unsurprisingly we reported his hours as being incorrect. Little shit has left us a 1 star Google review.
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So, I put together a little case of some of my favourite wines from the
@swig_wine
portfolio. featuring
@DanburyRidge
@BLANKbottle
@WistonSparkling
and a couple of others. 😀🍾🍷😸
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If you were looking at a restaurant Champagne list and it was arranged by sub region. Would it annoy you if roses were in their regions rather than in a section of their own?
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I've just read the words 'pesto naan' and frankly I'm done with 2020.
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A mini 99 cote rotie flight wrapped up my last night which was a small moment of almost transcendental beauty after a very hard day 😀
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@HawksmoorLondon
The URlunch, lunch with nothing afterwards, lunch with a free reign to go wherever it pleases, lunch that embraces the inevitable drunkenness, lunch that says ‘yeah we’re going to this ace little pub I know for a pint’ afterwards.
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@DanielLambert29
@jamiegoode
I’d guess that infrastructure and cost of living are prohibitive to the movement of those unemployed to the places where the work is. Chrionic under investment in the north east / south west vs overheating in London…
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Also, when I ask for the bill please just bring me the bill. I no longer want to be in your restaurant. This is what I’m telling you.
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@thomas_violence
@Captain_C2
I’m 100% happy with people being not allowed to drive through my neighbourhood…
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