did you guys know Malbec is best enjoyed drunk half and half with Fanta, over some ice, it's the true porteño way actually
Peter Stafford-Bow
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Novelist, Minstrel of Wine. 🍷 New book BLACK ODESA out now - see link for stockists. Agent: Andrew Lownie. https://linktr.ee/PeterStaffordBow
Rather nice review of Black Odesa, surely one of the top books of the summer. open.substack.com/pub/markbrau...
Holiday Reading
Three sublime but quite different novels recommended by Substack friends
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Halfway through this cheeky fruity tome - thoroughly enjoying. I’ve never worked directly in the wine trade but 3 decades brushing shoulders working for the trade as a designer & I def recognise the characters. A fun read & I look forward to others in the series by @peterstaffordbow.bsky.social 🍷
“…a masterclass in the art of the page-turner.” Thank you Laura! 🥂
Laura Hadland@morrighani.bsky.social · last mo.Black Odesa, the latest Felix Hart novel from @peterstaffordbow.bsky.social is out now. And it is, unbelievably, more incredible than any that went before. Proper page turning holiday read this one.
Where I am poisoned by vegans, resuscitated by the Holy Blood, and sample some Flemish PIWI wines. 🇧🇪 open.substack.com/pub/petersta...
A pilgrimage to plucky, plonky Belgium
Just because you can make wine, doesn't mean you should
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I drank two glasses of wine recently - don’t try this at home. open.substack.com/pub/petersta...
Diary of a Philosopher King
I drank two glasses of wine last Thursday. Three days later I had become a god.
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Looking forward to reading Black Odesa, the latest by @peterstaffordbow.bsky.social Nothing like a "morally flexible" protagonist to whet the appetite...
If you need help dropping off to sleep tonight, I offer my dulcet tones on this wine-scented podcast… (Episode 268) foodfmradio.com/programmes/t...
The Drinking Hour - Food FM
In partnership with Club Oenologique – the world through the lens of wine and spirits – https://cluboenologique.com. An hour of relaxed, unpretentious, informative and engaging conversatio...
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Lovely little interview in The Buyer, where I advance my anti-imperialist credentials. www.the-buyer.net/people/why-f...
The Buyer | Wine hero Felix Hart is back battling Russian state in Black Odesa
As we still await who the next James Bond is going to be we at least have the wine industry’s Felix Hart to protect and amuse us in equal measures. Here his creator the ever mysterious Peter Stafford-...
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I used the excuse of my novel’s imminent publication to fulminate against the erasure of Greek goddesses from wine education. substack.com/@peterstaffo...
The Banishment of Ariadne
A cautionary tale of an institution which chose to turn its back on the gods.
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I attend a tepid Picpoul-fuelled book launch, decide to spurn the world of traditional publishing, and eat very well in London, twice. A longer version of this post is available here: peterstaffordbow.substack.com/p/very-well-...
Very well, alone.
How I consciously uncoupled from the traditional publishing industry.
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I tug upon the pull cord, the curtains part and the cover is revealed! Black Odesa, volume 5 of the Felix Hart Novels, released 1st June. Review copies available for top vinfluencers only. DM me. No time wasters.
More potential titles for Felix Hart’s latest outing, a heatwave in the Cape, and my take on claretgate 🍷 (See link in bio)
An update on book 5 of the Felix Hart Novels, and an Alpine affair with Mondeuse, the whispering zither of the Savoie. Link to story in bio.
once when i was in high school my neighbors who blew up barrels of tannerite with their rifles on the weekends got drunk with their 12 year old cousin and went 4 wheeling and flipped the four wheeler and one of them stumbled into our house and stole a bowl of grapes and passed out on the couch
Raffaello Sorbi (Italian 1844–1931) La festa della vendemmia (The Harvest Dance) 1893. Note the "married vines" -- trained on trees.
Absolutely sickened by the relentless propaganda around so-called Dry January. In my thoughtful and balanced post, I explain why we should shun this sour, faithless pseudo-Lent. (Link in bio)
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Polar Bears drinking Christmas Wine, Postcard, United Kingdom, 1902
Wines linked to Putin and Patriarch Kirill enter U.S. tasting contest in San Francisco, brought in personal luggage by Kovalchuk aide The Insider details how wines made next door to Putin's Black Sea palace ended up in California.
Wines linked to Putin and Patriarch Kirill enter U.S. tasting contest in San Francisco, brought in personal luggage by Kovalchuk aide
Wines from the Krinitsa and Usadba Divnomorskoye wineries near Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea palace in Gelendzhik, as well as from the Mezyb winery linked to Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill...
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We don’t talk enough about how the English are a people of the Baltic - the Angeln region from which they originated borders the Baltic Sea
Wine or Sword? Kartlis Deda (“Mother of Georgians”) stands above Tbilisi’s old town, Sololaki. In her left hand a bowl of wine to greet those who come as friends, in her right hand a sword for those who come as enemies. Designed by prominent Georgian sculptor Elguja Amashukeli and erected in 1958
god this is properly mortifying stuff from Zarah there, GCSE-level analysis, quite hard to watch
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩@ukrainesol.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.