Dariusz Galasiński

Of course you can! No doubt at all.

Very pleased to announce that I'm doing a new book with @atlanticbooks.bsky.social who did such a great job with the last one. Title TBC but it's about 'Wine and class from Petronius to Partridge'. Publishing autumn 2027. They're also taking on Empire of Booze following collapse of Unbound.

Many congratulations! the topic is as complex as it is fascinating. Class tends to be avoided in social sciences and is key to understanding wine.

Opening a Book with Kevin Day The writer and photographer discusses his new book, Opening a Bottle: Italy

My interview with wine writer and photographer Kevin Day about his new book.
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Opinion | How to Save Beer

This op-ed isn't the worst thing I've read about beer in the @nytimes.com, but it relies on some very facile ideas about how the craft beer market works that don't hold up to basic scrutiny.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Atm colheita feels so much more complex…red or white.

Early accessibility of wine is very important. Most wine drinkers do not have space to keep wine for a long time. While I do not want to flog the class horse too much, it bothers me a bit that the whole narrative of ageability is class-ridden.

Thank you. I wonder whether your point was more about the age or ‘simplicity’. If simplicity, a label is yet to convince me about wine’s quality. If age, my point was that having to wait for a wine is such a bore.

That’s why it’s so balanced. And sweet gruener will always be better than… Sauternes. however blasphemous it sounds. :))

Delighted we agree :))

Porto is my re-kindled love. And I now belong to the tawny/colheita crowd. Apparently it’s either-or.

YouTube video by University of Birmingham The Ants and the Butterfly | The Philosophy Garden | University of Birmingham

“Some perfumes are made to evoke emotions or places such as a meadow after a rain shower or even a circus” In the Ants and the Butterfly Chiara Brozzo argues that perfumes can be works of art. Do you agree? #thephilosophygarden #philosophyforeveryone youtu.be/d1B6RWajQWs #philsky #edusky

Developing a roadmap for tackling alcohol harm in the UK On this month’s podcast we spoke to Dr Katherine Severi, IAS’s Chief Executive, and Karen Biggs, Chief Executive of treatment provider Phoenix Futures, about IAS’s forthcoming report: A healthier futu...

Podcast: 'Developing a roadmap for tackling alcohol harm in the UK' | @ias.org.uk instalcstud.substack.com/p/developing...

The impact of alcohol minimum pricing policies on vulnerable populations and health equity: A rapid review Alcohol minimum pricing policies, including minimum unit pricing (MUP), are effective strategies for reducing alcohol consumption and related harm. Ho…

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Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

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Area Under Vines in the European Union in 2020;
as % of total utilized agricultural area.

Per Capita Wine Exports of the World's Main Wine Exporters in 2023. New Zealand, the #1, exports wine worth $253 per capita.

Dated but might still be valid today?
“Those who preferred beer typically drank to higher levels of intoxication, were more likely to drive after drinking and tended to consider driving while intoxicated to be less serious. With few exceptions, these findings were true regardless of sex, age, ...”

Notable: Late September 2025 Notes on a medley of memorable wines—white, pink, and red—for early fall

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Main Grape Varieties in Alsace, 1968-2022. Riesling's amazing surge from #3 to the undisputed #1. And Sylvaner's abysmal decline from #1 to #7.

Natural Wine: A Dichotomy Are we living a lie?

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Thanks Jamie for a nice review - The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide is now 6 titles: Bordeaux, Rioja, Rhone Valley, Switzerland, Tuscany and Napa Valley - and more to come!
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Delighted to see this latest book in the Series now in print, and with a great endorsement from @literarti.bsky.social: 'As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.'

It took me years since starting to drink wine when I drank a 50 quid one. But I do remember a round birthday when I drank a 100 pound Chablis, it was a major expense. I still knew nothing about Chablis.

And I reserve the right only to like it and know nothing about it. The idea that I need to know anything about the wine to enjoy it is nonsense imo.

My Chablis example comes from me on a very tight budget. I drank bc I knew the kind of wine I was getting. Variety didn’t come into this.

The timeline for the projects discussed in this book roughly maps onto my time with @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and will stand proudly on my bookshelf.

Was fun to write, too.

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Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

Chateau Chunder revisited "It used to be double tequilas that could prise off the pants of sheilas but now they won't give it away, no way!, for less than a large chardonnay."

Wrote a thing about the brilliant doc on from Chateau Chunder. Despite only being from 2012, it seems like it comes from another age. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/chateau-ch...