Latest column for Jancis Robinson looks at Harry Eyres' Wine Dynasties of Europe. This lost classic published in 1990 profiles various great wine families like Torres, Symington, Hidalgo and Barton. It's perceptive and at time incredibly funny. www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/win...
Wine Dynasties of Europe – succession and survival
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From @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social There are many ways humans can achieve a hive mind, but liquor is the quickest. Its primary social purpose, was getting “a selfish, suspicious, narrowly goal-orientated primate to loosen up and connect with strangers.” henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/alcohol-is...
Alcohol is civilisation
“We should not fail to notice the conspicuous absence of kimchi-or-yoghurt-based super-cultures.”
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I have served Chateau Batailley with chilli con carne and regretted nothing.
Henry Jeffreys@henrygjeffreys.bsky.social · 2w agoWrote a thing about enjoying expensive wine with fast food which is apparently a new thing but some of us have been doing it for years henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/expensive-...
This is desperately sad, the British wine world lost one of its greats today at only 58. www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2026/08/wine...
Wine writer Matthew Jukes dies aged 58
Matthew Jukes, one of Britain's best-known wine writers, has died suddenly while on holiday with his family in Portugal. He was 58.
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Wrote a thing about enjoying expensive wine with fast food which is apparently a new thing but some of us have been doing it for years henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/expensive-...
Expensive wine with cheap food
It’s the trend that’s sweeping the nation… apparently. Plus a new Critic wine club.
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A well deserved result for Alain Chabanon and his lovely Cinq Saut. The small volume (only 3,000 bottles) accounts for its rarity. The estate is fully biodynamic. "Biodynamics opens our eyes and invites us to look at what is happening in the world around us.” Article by @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social
Cin City is back!
The results of the great cinsault challenge of 2026 are in and the winner is….
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Wrote a thing about whether wine writers should cover absurdly cheap wines from Aldi henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/how-cheap-...
How cheap is too cheap?
Thoughts on some ridiculously cheap wines from Aldi and what that means for the struggling independent trade.
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Latest post looks at the very real problem of 'sherry leg' caused by drinking too much manzanilla in the sunshine. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/low-alcoho...
Low alcohol sherry - just what the world needs now
Do you suffer from sherry legs? Well, I think I have found the answer.
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"There is a memorable scene where the owners of the most prestigious estate in Châteauneuf-du-Pape [..] produce 2 bottles of the same vintage, one filtered and one not, and taste them side by side. Everyone prefers the non-filtered. Lynch has been proved right again." by @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social
Adventures on the Wine Route by Kermit Lynch revisited
'When a woman chooses a hat, she does not put it on a goat’s head to judge it; she puts it on her own.’
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Do you have a spare £4 million in your back pocket? If so England's greatest vineyard is up for sale, Breaky Bottom. But is it worth the money? thecritic.co.uk/should-i-buy...
Should I buy Breaky Bottom? | Henry Jeffreys | The Critic Magazine
England’s greatest vineyard is up for sale. I use the word advisedly because while there are other excellent sparkling wine producers in this country, largely their wines come from multiple vineyards.
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Wrote about Lawrence Osborne's brilliant book about getting pissed in Muslim countries. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/the-wet-an... Free to read!!
‘The Wet and the Dry’ by Lawrence Osborne
“Are you serious? Get drunk in Islamabad?”
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Wrote a thing on the bizarre habit among members of the British wine trade to refer to Burgundy as Bourgogne. Also people who say Napoli instead of Naples or Cote D'Ivoir instead of Ivory Coast. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/you-say-bo...
You say Bourgogne and I say Burgundy
How to spot if someone is in the pay of Big Burgundy
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Wrote a thing for the Telegraph on how Macallan's financial woes might be good news for whisky lovers www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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Wrote a thing about some dodgy practices from some wine merchants selling declassified Bordeaux. Including spurious discounts and attributing false scores to the wines henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/declassifi...
Declassified wines: the good, the bad and the spurious
Some wine merchants are being a little loose with the truth when it comes to selling declassified claret.
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Dry martinis, tawny port and Jeeves' hangover cures. I wrote a thing about drinking in PG Wodehouse. Free to read! No paywall! henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/drinking-i...
Drinking in P.G. Wodehouse
'Stiffish, Jeeves. Not too much soda, but splash the brandy about a bit.'
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I wrote a thing about Mary Portas' ideas for turning around the drinks industry. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/mary-porta...
Mary Portas saves the drinks industry
The former 'high street tsar' delivered a keynote address on how the drinks industry could do better.
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Is sustainability a selling point for most wine drinkers? henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/does-susta...
Does sustainability sell wine?
“One major restaurant wine buyer said no customers have asked about carbon footprint in the last three years."
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The wine anniversary that just keeps on givin' www.hudin.com/the-last-fre...
The last freakin’ article on the Judgment of Paris (again)
So, it's the 50th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris today.For those who don't know of it, but still drink wine, this probably means that you're a GenXer or younger as even the oldest of us couldn't...
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'The Judgement of Paris 50 years on: What was the significance of probably the most famous event in wine since the wedding at Cana?' | @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/the-judgem...
The Judgement of Paris 50 years on
What was the significance of probably the most famous event in wine since the wedding at Cana?
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Paragraph by @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social neatly explaining why I (so far) haven’t found any role for AI in my writing (professional or non-professional). (From open.substack.com/pub/henryjef...).
Amazing stuff. I remember my parents taking an over-the-counter bottle of Kaolin & Morphine on holiday when I was a child which also seems like a different world when it comes to opioids. (Though I appreciate that opioid addiction from cough syrups is a serious problem in some places.)
Henry Jeffreys@henrygjeffreys.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow I developed a mild opium habit in my teens henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/confession...
Wrote a thing about a timely new edition of Ian Buxton's Whiskies Galore - a tour of Scotland's island distilleries. This is the boom hangover version henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/whiskies-g...
Whiskies Galore revisited
Exciting news: there’s an updated version of Ian Buxton’s wonderfully curmudgeonly tour around Scotland’s island distilleries. Plus The Rest is History
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I don’t give a shit how much MPs drink. But these are the same people who tell the rest of us that we must drink less and pass laws to make us do so.
@shirvill.bsky.social · 4mo agoSo working long hours and making important decisions are reasons for MPs to drink? Professions exist that sometimes work 14h in a row, make life-and-death decisions, and would be fired on the spot for having the slightest bit of alcohol in their system at work.
Wrote a thing on drinking in the House of Commons featuring top historian and cad Alan Clark. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/drinking-i...
Drinking in the House of Commons
“He had poured forth a torrent of wit, parts, humour, knowledge, absurdity, vanity, and fiction, heightened by all the graces of comedy, the happiness of allusion and quotation..."
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Special St. George's Day post - fear and loathing in English whisky henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/english-wh... 🏴
English whisky – too close to Scotland?
For English Whisky Week, I’m taking a look at the conflict that has divided the industry between the big boys and the scrappy upstarts.
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