"Two people are about to have their lives changed by this". A brilliant initiative. Apply by Aug 21st. Details in the article.

The Draughty Bits Pub@thedraughtybitspub.com · 9h ago

Article by Adrian Smith from Spirits - The Three Drinkers #wine #alcohol #cocktail #drink

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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Call me a curmudgeon, but if you're going to do the conga down my street while screaming "à, à, à la queuelele" at the tops of your voices I'd rather it wasn't at 1.30 in the morning.

"Forms created to serve life end up imprisoning it." It sounds like Bergson, but it isn't. Here I am at the time of harvest choices, very close to Rabelais – still alive and well in the world of wine – but simply under a tree in Thélème, meditating beside him on his famous "do what thou wilt"..."

Please take a gander at the Popelouchum.com website and consider joining us for a vineyard tour and tasting of Popelouchum new releases. August 23 and September 6th. Hope to see you there.

Just lying here looking out my window at the stars

I am hopeful for rain this evening from about 6.00pm as they are doing a street wine tasting and live music in the village.

Chatgpt wants to be my personal trainer ☹️

Ukrainian rescuers are now in France, helping to contain the devastating wildfires.

"As workers cut open the vats, viscous brown fish goo shot out onto the factory floor."

Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector

Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...

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Brilliant

Scott Edelman@scottedelman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I find it hard to believe this music video of "Common People" made entirely of clips from Star Trek: The Original Series has been around for 15 years, and yet I only stumbled across it tonight. How is that possible? But — nicely done! youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs

I'll let you know

Just watched a really corny romcom (it's Sunday afternoon) with a really sad ending, and now I'm bawling my eyes out.

Figs - part 2. White ones, all caramel and honey, with white wine

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

8,000 steps and figs off the tree. How's your morning?

www.maptap.gg August 1 92🏆 97🔥 88🎉 91👑 96🔥 Final score: 926

Welding. They were fucking WELDING....in a forest 🤦

Police arrest two men as suspected perpetrators of Spanish wildfire

Investigation points to negligence while carrying out prohibited activities amid extreme fire risk

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Today I discovered Europe's highest wine estate. Just 3 hectares of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir at an incredible 1,230 metres... "elegant, authentic and pure wines , which carry within them the freshness of the mountain peaks and the richness of a still wild place". colrouge.com

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

"Soutenons Nos Vignerons (support our Vignerons )is the highest-selling brand by volume among innovations launched in the wine category in 2025." So is this genuine growth? Or just solidarity? Surely it is just taking market share from other wines....

Grands Chais de France proves you can still build a high-volume brand without discounting

With the benefit of a year’s hindsight, launching a new range of red wines in bag-in-boxes was not “the easiest choice”, admits Yannick

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Habemus pluvia! 🌧️

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Thinking of all those displaced by fires, and remembering the one that ravaged our landscape last year.

On my morning walk a guy pulls up in a car and asks Parlez vous francais? "Oui" Vous êtes Anglaise? "Non, je suis Française" I've been to London "Ah bon?" Dieu a perdu ses chaussures, hein? (which means This is the back of beyond isn't it..) And he speeds away. People are weird.

"How am I feeling right now? Well, I went to see the Odyssey, and if I dared, I'd say: right in the vestibulum , that area located at the entrance to the Underworld according to Virgil." I highly recommend subscribing to Herve to read his vintage day by day diary...and other musings.

"Disease is nearly as important as heat. The risk associated with flavescence dorée rises across virtually all European vineyards. Germany, Switzerland, Burgundy and Champagne are also projected to experience roughly a 15% increase in days favourable to downy and powdery mildew."

Simon Judge@winedrinker.bsky.social · last wk.

How Climate Change Could Reshape the Wines We Drink (new research): winedrinker.co.uk/how-climate-... #wine

Just saw a zeppelin fly over my head, and I'm wondering if I'm not hallucinating

Whoops again

They are going to change the design of the Euro bank notes. And you can vote for one of the 10 propositions here: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/