David Round MW

Maybe I should give it a go next year. I feel like I may have missed out on an important part of my education.

This is great stuff. Keep it coming.

Wine study facts.

But the camaraderie, the shared mission, the solace in repetition, the conviviality? Knowing that your hard work contributed to making delicious wine?

No, me neither.

You're such a hard-bitten cynic.

Tryon Foothills is the newest AVA (American Viticultural Area) and the first to be confirmed in almost a year.

Probably only of much interest to the wine taxonomists out there, it's in Polk County, North Carolina, around 30 miles from the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway.

Don’t forget about the men who don’t want to be women but use the issue to shout at women anyway.

We can avoid US-style authoritarianism by simply not voting for it. But we need to ban foreign political donations to stop our elections being bought.

We bought a Canon G3520 last year with refillable ink and it has not only been the most reliable printer we have ever had but we have yet to have to refill the ink wells. Well worth it if you use it regularly.

Black Rabbit starts really well, then I lost a bit of enthusiasm around episode 3 and then it finished really strongly, so stick with it! I’m really enjoying House of Guinness so far - some will think it’s a load of old nonsense but it’s great escapism.

Urban worrier.

People are already erasing their social media accounts just to visit the US, Tom. People are being disappeared by masked secret police and losing their jobs because of their political beliefs. We may disagree on exactly which month we are in 1933 Germany, but it’s still fascism.

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]

Publicity photos of wine people holding wine glasses are such a cliché. Like photos of senior executives on the phone.

Yes, two obvious reasons!

Southern Glazer again. I suspect they may not be very good people.

It’s shocking that they’ve taken it in house.

No, this is completely new because previously the police farmed it out to the Ku Klux Klan.

Congratulations to Europe’s Ryder Cup team for winning in the face of an abusive New York crowd, a very ugly atmosphere and the unsporting behaviour of some of their opponents. They won with humility and grace, praising the US for their incredible, late fight back. They set an inspiring example.

The QC of bottling plants in major markets isn’t an issue - quite the reverse. And I don’t see these writers balancing the issues of local workers and saving the planet from climate catastrophe. In fact I don’t see them discuss the issues at all. Just reciting the “heavy bottles bad” mantra.

Given that you have for some reason totally misrepresented my argument (don’t worry, this seems to be a common rhetorical device), I was only talking about the glass issue rather than “other forms of sustainability” and here is what I said bsky.app/profile/davi...

No, my issue is that people complain about heavy bottles for wines that are small production and hardly anyone drinks but never talk about the far greater problem of too much glass being shifted around the world unnecessarily for larger production wines. It looks rather superficial and performative.

Seems legit.

I recently watched "Rise of the Nazis", an impressive 2019 BBC series featuring experts including #winesky favourite @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social which traces Hitler's progress from becoming Chancellor in January 1933. Trump's progress seems more rapid, but unlike Hitler, he had a democratic mandate.

Make America Good Again

Have you had drought conditions?

Where is this?

I have possibly misinterpreted it, given the current state of play!

Self-awareness would have been my 4th word.

Ryder Cup 2025: Bryson DeChambeau says Donald Trump will inspire United States to Europe victory Ryder Cup 2025: Bryson DeChambeau says Donald Trump will inspire United States to Europe victory

Turning the 2025 Ryder Cup into the 1936 Olympics definitely ups the stakes.
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