Jamie Goode
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wine journalist, book author and flavour obsessive
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It's publication day! *The New Viticulture* is now available on amazon...
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Let’s form a club: people who have never watched even a single episode of game of thrones. Is there anyone else out there??
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If you no show at a restaurant without calling, we can’t be friends. You are a bad human
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Very excited that, finally, after 16 days of illness (fairly mild) wine now tastes normal. Was scared for a while. Outside wine, my options fairly limited. And the wine trade is mostly a lovely, supportive community of great folks, doing a really good job across many segments
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All the evidence suggests that expert wine tasters are made, not born. So tast everything. Take notes. Keep an open and curious mind. And enjoy the ride.
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How do people feel about no show fees at restaurants? I think it’s good that people are protecting their businesses and I expect to add a credit card to a reservation now
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Wine trade: I recommend five minutes on google to learn the difference between sulfur, sulfites and sulfides.
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I think wine critics should indicate when the sample they have tasted has been coravined - I like coravin, but it isn’t perfect. As a producer, if I sent a sample bottle for tasting, I would expect it to be tasted by opening and pouring. Do you agree?
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Not every restaurant has to cater for everyone. If a restaurant only wants to serve natural wine, why should it bother you? If it’s tasting menu only at £130, you don’t have to eat there.
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Thinking of vignerons across Northern Europe facing frost challenges again tonight. Let’s not take wine for granted
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The most effective innovation in wine in the last 20 years has been going back to the future: recognising the wisdom of old approaches to make more natural, authentic wine. Because of this, there’s never been a better time to be a wine lover
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I think it’s possible to become too technical as a taster. You learn to recognise certain fault compounds and then become hypersensitized to them, finding problems in wines which are actually fine, and in many cases very good indeed
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I'm not into all this space stuff. Humanity has no future away from this planet, for significant biological reasons. Rather than chase this fantasy, why not invest in habitat restoration on earth? Reclaiming deserts? Rebuilding lost soils? Decarbonization?
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Sometimes I just wish cheap wine didn't try so hard. Why can't wine just be wine? Do we need the sweetness, the oak products, the polishing, the fake aromas?
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Just signed a contract for a new book with the University of California Press. Delivery date June 1st. My bravest book yet!
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Blind tasting exam, MW style. I get to sit in and taste with a couple of students, and put my neck on the line. I publish unedited notes. I got some bits right, others wrong. Such and interesting experience.
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New book: the third edition of Wine Science is launched this week, and it's about half new
@Octopus_Books
@ucpress
#winescience
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It must be so depressing as a winery owner to have to pour your wines for influential critics who have palates that you have zero respect for, but which apparently move the market
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I've just sent my novel, 'The Wine Critics', off for printing. I'm quite excited to see the book, and how it will be received. Written entirely on aeroplanes. HMU for review copies. Orders will soon go live!!
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We urgently need another lengthy opinion piece on natural wine by someone who doesn't understand the subject well. Anyone? Anyone?
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With the major critic teams and the wine magazines all chasing the $$$, it does leave lots of room (and work and readers) for those who can write well about interesting wines from less famous regions, and wines for people who love wine but aren't wealthy.
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Who’d have thought I’d be visiting vineyards in The Netherlands??
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Get ready for some insane Champagne discounting in the run up to Christmas. The offers will start early. A lot of wine needs shifting.
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If I rate a wine with a score I’m just telling you how much I liked it. I’m trying my best to be objective and I use skill and experience but the score is never a property of that bottle. It is partly about me, too. Treat with caution.
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I got into wine through the wines of Australia. It’s a wine country that made me feel welcome, when so many others made me feel stupid and not rich enough
@wine_australia
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One day we'll look back and wonder why we ever thought it was acceptable to drink bottled water. Especially in plastic bottles.
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So when is it acceptable to reject a wine in a restaurant? I suggest we need a clearer protocol for the 'taste'
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Lovely to see the sea again - and the light today was amazing
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Big news: new genetic evidence shows that the grapevine was domesticated in two locations, and 3000 years earlier than previously thought
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Quite the most stunning vineyards - Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain
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Periodic reminder: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Meunier are all clones of the same variety. Stop using ‘Meunier’ as a varietal name
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Gatwick Free Wifi won't let me update my website. It has a new filter that seeks to protect consumers from writing about wine. It comes under the banned category 'alcohol'. Yet you can get a drink here at 6 am if you should choose to
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The world's three largest wineries, all owned by the same company
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When did balance go out of fashion? It seems that if you can see both sides, both sides hate you. Instead, everyone dives for a polarized position and speaks only to their tribe. It's a dangerous situation. We need balance; we need perspective
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People sneering are Natural Wine in 2020 reminds me of the UK wine trade being snooty and patronising about New World wine 25 years ago when I started getting into wine. It’s a really bad look! 🏺
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Tasting room fees of $50 in Paso are insane. They are insane anywhere. It’s the wine industry making itself inaccessible to newcomers. It’s massively short sighted. Get a grip, folks
In Paso Robles, average tasting room fees have jumped to over $50 per person. It's triggering alarm amongst tourists and industry folk alike.
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If you are on a retainer from a company/wine region and tweet about their wines, even if the tweet isn’t technically sponsored, the commercial relationship should be declared in your bio
#honesty
#disclosure
#conflictofinterest
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Look, I love Riesling. I have to: I’m in the wine trade. But it’s often good and seldom great, and acid alone doesn’t make a wine great. Let’s not give Riesling a free pass just because it’s Riesling
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In this world of crazy wine score escalation, I really admire critics who show restraint and use scores in the 80s regularly. But at the same time we should remain humble and not be rude about wines we don’t like. There’s a person behind them.
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I love that we have all these fresh influencer voices in wine, but why do they drink such horrible wines? I'd be thrilled if they were smashing authentic artisanal wines from cool producers, but they've always got shocking mass-produced techno wines in their glasses...
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So many bad wine tasting notes. Vague, clichéd, stereotyped- would you ever be able to recognise the wine? Come on wine trade: slow down, think, and do better!
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This morning’s blissful walk through the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis
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Hilariously, an English winery wants to charge me a £25 tasting fee if I visit them to taste their wines. I specified this is a professional visit. While I’m not presumptions enough to assume that everyone knows who I am, google exists....
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If you litter you are a bad human. It’s not complex. There are no situations where littering Is acceptable
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Evenings with 25 great wines are never the best. If a wine is great, I want to sit with it a while. Get to know it. There is only regret with a sip of a truly great wine.
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Just a friendly reminder to run a million miles away from any wine business that aims to ‘cut out the middlemen’
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Almost a million people have watched a famous actor and her business partner telling people about how commercial wines are full of additives and pesticides, and are bad for you. My only response: they aren't!! Don't be alarmed!! (transcript below)
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So lovely to see this in RVF, and it means a lot coming from Pascaline, a major voice in wine who I respect highly.
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Help me here: is it reasonable to expect that if you cover Argentine wine for a major US publication you should actually visit the country at least once????
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Unfortunately I couldn’t attend the DRC 2015 tasting (always a highlight) because I’m in NZ, but I can tell you (1) they taste great, (2) you probably can’t afford them and (3) even if you can, you can’t have any. OK?
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Wine struggles to speak to normal people. It's really bad at it. Why? And can anything be done?
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We groaned about the power of critics, but the next generation of wine communicators seem to lack any critical faculty whatsoever
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I'm getting involved in a wine retail operation. It's a good one, and some top folk are involved. Introducing The Sorting Table
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So many articles I read would be much better written tighter and half the length. If you can make a sentence shorter, do it. If a simple word will replace a complex one, use it. And I’m through with 1500 word opinion pieces
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Very cool! Old school
Bodegas Muga. Separando las claras de las yemas -de huevos frescos- para clarificar el vino tinto. -QV
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Grandiose wine tasting notes, fluid with gushing verbal invention, are alienating. Can people stop trying to broadcast their cleverness and communicate more effectively?
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@TasteGeorgia
@notcapnamerica
Are you sure? We don’t have state issued photo ID in the UK so a passport has always been needed
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Did you know that petrichor, the smell of rain on dry ground, is the same as wine fault geosmin? We like it in the air but not in our wine
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New look vineyards in the Côtes de Nuits. I’ve seen Tressage before but not combined with sur Echalas - quite a bit of higher trellising in some fancy sites and Tressage is common now
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I’m uncomfortable with wine investment on a number of levels. It’s a drink. It can be profound. But it’s still a drink
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For those who love wine, and aren’t investing in it, this isn’t terrible news. Prices have become problematic.
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Last two nights have been solo dining in Chablis. Some lovely wine lists in town: bistrot de grand crus has Raveneau 14 cheap, and tonight a cracking de Moor at Les Trois Boucherons. Happy place
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Visiting Masi, masters of appassimento, to learn more about the process of drying grapes to make Amarone and Ripasso - a short film
@MrAmaroneMasi
#amarone
#ripasso
#veneto
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So, as promised, here's my top wines of 2019 that I PAID FOR ... ...please don't bash me for my bad taste...
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So
@BBCNews
this is really bad journalism. The way the article is written is misleading. The vast majority of wines sold have sugar levels of 0-5 g/litre. Some low/no alcohol wines or sweet wines have levels over 20 g. This is spreading misinformation
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If you are competing on price, someone else will always be cheaper
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Tasting two Sauternes tonight. It's a massively undervalued wine style
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As writers (journalists?) it's so important we just don't give a voice to those who shout loudest, or who are best at marketing, or who schmooze us the most. So often in the wine world we end up siding with Goliath.
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So cool to see grapes drying at
@masiwines
- this is one of their 13 drying lofts - these grapes will be here for three to four months during which they lose 40% of their volume
#apassimento
#veneto
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Thinking of compiling a top 10 wines of 2019 list, including only bottles THAT I ACTUALLY PAID FOR
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Generally, if you want to go far in wine writing, it helps if you can tell great wine from good from poor. And if you praise everything you taste, you’ve failed
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When I started getting interested in wine in the 1990s, wine critics made their money from their readers, and wrote for them. It doesn't always feel like that now. Who are you writing for?
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UK wine retail is broken at the bottom end. I found a Chenin Blanc from SA on Tesco's website for £3.49, and Aldi has 28 white wines under £5. This is not sustainable.
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Pinot Noir has arrived! Going to coferment with Pinot Blanc. Hardly any sorting needed
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I discovered that some highly educated wine people have almost impossibly closed minds, together with no realisation that their minds are closed. I hope I never go there
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Wine is low margin because of its fragmented production base, an oversupply situation, and because most techno wines are boring. Authentic/natural wines seem to be the only ones offering consumers a real reason to trade up. Gimmicky innovation not the way forward.
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It’s so hard to project the right persona on twitter. I’m actually v friendly and open and there’s no one I interact with here - even those who’ve blocked me! - who I wouldn’t be v happy to drink with. I’m trying to get into fewer twitter scraps!
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Thought for the day: live your life, walk your own path, and fight your own battles. But hopefully you can enlist some good friends to walk and fight alongside you, otherwise the road is a lonely one. None of us really matter, but we all do.
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No matter how long you have been writing for, it's so nice when you submit two articles and both editors come back and say they think they are really good! It's hard to appraise your own work. And we all need a bit of encouragement from time to time!
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Call me what you will, but the prospect of watching a virtual tasting of new releases of a winery when you don't have those wines in front of you doesn't fill me with glee. A watching wine tasting wine tasting. Easy pass.
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"He seems to have limited knowledge of fine wines and little wine tasting experience" - this was a comment left in an amazon review of one of my books. For real. Someone can potentially damage your business by making these sorts of comments, and there's no come back. Oh well.
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So, last night I went to a party for my sister's pilates clients (she has a lot). It was fun, and we danced, and got home at 2 am. Drink choice? Prosecco at £15 a bottle. I drank a lot of it. It was fine. I enjoyed it. Even wine geeks have nights off their geekiness!
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This arrived!! Looks amazing! Initial impressions are this is the book we have been waiting for on Bordeaux - will report back
#categorybuster
#bordeaux
#bordeauxwine
@newbordeaux
@berrybrosrudd
@BordeauxWines
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Quick personality self inventory:
Q: Have you been hoarding?
If the answer is yes, you are an asshole
We are all in this together
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