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Interviewed Michel Rolland for 67 Pall Mall’s Back Label newsletter that I produce. ‘You might think I’m crazy, but I firmly believe that if I made a blend of Lafite, Haut-Brion, Petrus and Cheval Blanc, it would be a better wine than any of them.’ 67pallmall.com/what-ive-learn…

🚨 Calling all wine communicators 🚨 Having worked on the inaugural edition of these awards last year, I can heartily endorse them as a way of getting your work recognised. The 2025 entries are now open… 67pallmall.com/67-awards/

Meta announces end of its DEI programs. Read the memo.go cnbc.com/2025/01/10/rea…

Hi Oliver Holt - are you proud of this ‘journalism’?

Brilliant piece on wine scores by Simon Woolf: themorningclaret.com/p/are-wine-sco…

English Merlot being grown in raised beds of coir (coconut husk) within polytunnels in Hampshire

For most of Napa, the 2020 fires were a disaster. For Harlan, they led to a permanent change in style… ‘It was like after 20 years of having a relationship with somebody, you realise you’ve missed something so key to them…’ My latest for @67pallmall 67pallmall.com/how-impending-…

Calling all #WineCommunicators – last chance to enter the industry's top awards… mailchi.mp/67pallmall/67-…

Spottswoode has planted various varieties - Falanghina, Touriga Nacional - on an experimental basis, ‘because we can’t be sure that Cabernet will be viable in the future, given how hot it’s getting in Napa…’

Great piece, and essential reading, from Kate Lofthouse for Tim Atkin 'The allegations feel under-explored in the media.' 100% – but it's not hard to fathom why, when Champagne houses are regular clients of most wine titles… timatkin.com/uncomfortable-…

Producers are now having to jump through so many hoops to retain their wine style, they're almost circumventing terroir. Meanwhile, classed growths eliminate over half the crop from the grand vin. So – is great wine really still made in the vineyard? timatkin.com/the-dilution-o…

‘Bordeaux is a very small town. It’s very incestuous. The sport is trying to sleep with everybody’s else’s wife.' I interviewed Sacha Lichine, the man who gave up a fourth growth to invent swimming pool rosé... 67pallmall.com/what-ive-learn…

Which is further from the notion of terroir – wine made from grapes grown in raised beds of coconut husk under polytunnels, or wine made from a blend of Australian and Rhône Syrah? And does any of it matter? harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory…

Stuck w The Observer through the tribulations of recent years, but it’s now a world away from the great paper it once was. New sports section particularly low-budget. Sad to see the UK press now without a serious Sunday paper to represent a liberal, left-leaning perspective.