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My 2024 Argentina report will be published on June 15th, straight after the launch on Instagram Live at 7pm UK time. #argentina

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2 years

Brexit in a single photo. We’re now part of Andere Nationalitäten. Long queue.

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We live in a country where the opposition is @JolyonMaugham , @ByDonkeys and @Coldwar_Steve . Any chance that @UKLabour and the @LibDems could join them? Please call out Brexit for the disaster it is. Forget the focus groups. Tell the truth.

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Spot the difference...

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@IanDunt The evil of two lessers.

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“Johnson set the law. He promoted the law. And then he broke the law. He must go. Or else our entire system of government is a farce.” Bravo, ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩

Boris Johnson must go, or our entire system of Government is threatened

No functioning country – on a basic moral, political or constitutional level – could allow Johnson to stay in office

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Good to see France sending corrupt politicians to jail. Our time will come @JolyonMaugham .

French court finds former President Sarkozy guilty of corruption

A French court found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty on Monday of trying to bribe a judge and influence peddling, making him the second head of state in modern-day France to be convicted of...

www.reuters.com

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6 years

I’m an Englishman sitting in a French bar drinking a Belgian beer cheering for an Italian to win a golf tournament. This is the Europe I love.

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“One day, our children and grandchildren will look back in astonishment that Britain’s governing class managed to fail the country so comprehensively. One day, politicians will feel embarrassed to admit their association with the tawdry politics of Brexit”

The Observer view on the Brexit deal | Observer editorial

A deal that makes us poorer, reduces global influence and imperils the nation’s integrity

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Weird sense of priorities @BBCNews . Harry and Megan - who cares? - are your lead story. Can we hear more about the @GoodLawProject ’s victory in the courts? Or doesn’t government corruption matter any more?

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2 years

My dad’s 91st birthday dinner. 1961 Franco Españolas Rioja showing beautifully.

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3 years

Could @IanDunt do a blow by blow analysis of the Cummings interview, please? Saves me having to watch the twat.

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3 years

Celebrating my dad’s 90th birthday with a bottle of 1948 Vega Sicilia. Thank you to my friend ⁦ @vino_prodigo ⁩ for the present.

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5 years

In heaven, all wine bars will be like this. The wonderful Cantina Isola in Milan. On this of all days, I feel proudly European.

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5 years

“This was supposed to be Brexit day. That's not the way it turned out. Remainers and Soft Brexiters now have the advantage. “ Yipppppeeeee. Via ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩

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Drinking 1957 Lanzerac Cabernet and 2014 Murrieta Dalmau with my dad Ron @lobostapas . #winewithmydad

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4 years

Dinner with ⁦ @JolyonMaugham ⁩, ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩ and ⁦ @seanjonesqc ⁩. These are slipping down very nicely.

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3 years

“The longer that show goes on, the harder it gets to remember what good government ever felt like. The deeper we go into this emergency, the more it shades into absurdity and the absurdity starts to feel like normality.” Via ⁦ @rafaelbehr ⁩

Covid demands seriousness, not this government's theatre of the absurd | Rafael Behr

Even Boris Johnson’s attempts to reassure look like distress flares from a clown marooned on a fantasy island, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Celebrations going up a notch. #champagneliberal

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2 years

Argentina here I come! Already looking forward to my first empanada.

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2 years

“Johnson was a failure and a disgrace. Now, as he finally falls apart, the Tory party must pick up the pieces and decide what it wants to be: a respectable party of the centre-right, or a deranged populist power fantasy.” Excellent from ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩.

Apparently Boris Johnson 'got the big calls right'. Nothing could be further from the truth

It is the end of a long and tawdry story which began with the Brexit referendum campaign and has culminated in the sorry spectacle we're seeing in Downing Street today

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6 years

"What we need to ask is whether a man closely allied to people like Bannon and supportive of Viktor Orbán should be allowed to amplify his propaganda unchallenged on our broadcast media." Excellent piece on Nigel Farage by @carolecadwalla

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6 years

“The right does not want Britain to “take back control”. It wants to control Britain, and anyone who gets in its way is a fake, a grandstander, an enemy or saboteur.”

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1 year

Christmas lunch wines. Some fun stuff to enjoy, most with special memories attached. The best kind of wines. #happychristmas

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5 years

Excellent and damning thread by @JolyonMaugham about the BBC’s piss poor coverage of Vote Leave’s cheating.

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A short potted history of the BBC's coverage of Vote Leave's cheating in the Referendum. It begins here, when @GoodLawProject began judicial review proceedings against the Electoral Commission. A balanced piece of coverage (by Brian Wheeler.) /1

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An open letter to the BBC. Why have, say, ⁦ @JolyonMaugham ⁩ and ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩ never been on ⁦ @bbcquestiontime ⁩?

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1 year

There are compensations for missing a flight to Uruguay because of fog in London and Madrid. One is that I get to go to La Venencia, one of my favourite bars in the world. #madrid #sherry

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1 year

“The most dispiriting thing about reading the book is that dawning sense that all your worst imaginings about the conduct of that government were, it seems, played out in real time.”

Anthony Seldon on Boris Johnson: ‘At his heart, he is extraordinarily empty’

The distinguished historian and headteacher discusses his latest book about a contemporary prime minister, a devastating – and dispiriting – account of Johnson’s chaotic reign

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Slightly sore head this morning. But what memories of these wines last night. All delicious.

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5 years

The referendum was won by lies and cheating. We need a public inquiry into this, as @carolecadwalla says.

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This is extraordinary. Electoral Commission says it can't go after DUP because it already found Vote Leave guilty of same offence. I can't emphasise this enough or say it too many times: it stinks. The whole thing. And we desperately need a proper inquiry

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4 years

Tonight’s #lockdownwine : a mature Super Tuscan. What are you drinking, friends?

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3 years

Girona. #eveningstroll

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2 years

I don’t often taste wines that make move me like this. Dinner with dear friends. Celebrating an 80th birthday. #burgundy

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4 years

That’s some wine consumption.

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6 years

Great wine is about nuance, surprise, subtlety, expression, qualities that keep you coming back for another taste. Rejecting a wine because it is not big enough is like rejecting a book because it is not long enough, or a piece of music because it is not loud enough. Kermit Lynch

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3 years

Sneaky half bottle of 1996 Yquem. Happy Easter weekend, everyone.

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5 years

BBC sources tell me that John Humphrys will be retiring from the Today Programme on September 20th. Anyone else up for a party to celebrate his departure?

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6 years

Delighted to be joining @Decanter as their Burgundy correspondent.

Decanter recruits Tim Atkin MW as Burgundy critic - Decanter

New Burgundy specialist onboard for 2018...

www.decanter.com

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4 years

Champagne tonight!!

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5 years

Chablis on a winter morning. #chablis

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Eben Sadie’s wall of wine. Great winemakers make great wines because they know what great wines taste like.

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3 years

Mmmmmm. One of the greatest white wines I’ve ever tasted. #2021riojareport

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4 months

My father’s obituary has almost a whole page in the print edition of The Guardian today. He would have been proud. We’re going to remember him and celebrate his life on Friday with a service and what South Africans call an after tears party. Shout in the week, as he would say.

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6 years

“This isn’t just an attempt to silence me. It’s an attempt to silence the story.” Keep going, ⁦ @carolecadwalla ⁩

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2 years

If Labour is looking for a three-word slogan with which to fight the next election, it could do worse than “Mend This Country”.

Has Liz Truss handed power over to the extreme neoliberal thinktanks? | George Monbiot

The prime minister is in hock to rightwing lobbyists who are themselves indebted to oligarchs and corporations, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

You know you’ve made it when you’re on the door of the ladies’ loo in a wine bar in Madrid. Not sure what ⁦ @JancisRobinson ⁩ would make of this. Robert Parker is on the door of the gents.

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2 years

Breakfast of champions. A pleasure to taste the new DRC releases. #burgundy

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5 years

Speaking at the Spanish Embassy in front of the UK, Spanish and EU flags. As I said on Tuesday, I hope we'll still be in the EU when I present the Wines from Spain Awards next year. Our future is in Europe. #StopBrexit

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4 years

Tonight’s #lockdownwine is a delicious 2010 Massolino Barolo.

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1 year

Boxing Day with my dad and family. Opening a 1968 Tarapacá in his honour that was given to me in Chile to share with him. #preciousmoments

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1 year

I rather miss the days when wine merchants sought out great wines and told their customers about them. Too many these days talk about “investment” opportunities and have next to no interest in, or knowledge of, wine. A fine wine market crash might not be a bad thing.

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4 years

Just bonkers. A 1959 Semillon with 12.3% alcohol. Argentina’s best white grape. Like an old Tondonia.

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5 years

Rioja time. These guys always make great wines. #rioja

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3 years

A sneaky half bottle of Rioja to end the day. #lariojaalta

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2 years

Christmas lunch wines I

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The joys of a mature German Riesling. Tonight’s #lockdownwine

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This is the first SA white I ever gave 98 points to. It really is a world class Chenin Blanc from ⁦ @DavidandNadia ⁩. #lockdownwine

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4 years

These are the Chilean wines I talked about for tonight’s tasting with #67pallmall . I’m now going to drink at least two of them for tonight’s #lockdownwine .

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5 years

The best Champagne I’ve had this year. Every bit as good as the 2006. Just stunning. #drinkbetterwine

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6 years

What an unbelievable wine from the highest vineyard in the world. Genius winemaking. Please, someone import this wine.

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5 years

Congratulations to @alevigilmalbec , seen celebrating his winemaker of the year award in my 2019 Argentina Report here.

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4 years

@steverichards14 @LordAshcroft @gusbourne I’ll be drinking French, Spanish and Italian wines and laughing at the stupidity of Brexit.

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6 years

South Africa takes the top six spots in world Sauvignon Blanc tasting at Lismore. Amazing result.

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2 years

What a day. #patagonia

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1 year

First Rioja of 2023. From the amazing López de Heredia. #firesidered #rioja

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4 years

Celebrating in style!

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4 years

Amazing to wake up to this view at Colomé. #salta #molinos #argentina

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5 years

In 2013, I published my first South African report. It was 81 pages long and reviewed 710 wines. Tomorrow, I will publish my #2019saport , which runs to 281 pages and reviews 2,118 wines. It's my biggest ever overview of the SA industry. #labouroflove

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4 years

Tonight’s #lockdownwine is a lip smacking Greek Assyrtiko. Just what I need after a day at the computer. Cheers everyone. Stay safe and well distanced.

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6 years

Yipppeeee!

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Congratulations to @timatkin , winner of the Ramos Pinto Online Communicator of the Year Award 2018! #ramospinto @LouisRoederer_ #LRIWWA18 #theroederers #winewriters

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“Today, the government did not even try to justify what it was doing. Tory MPs barely pretended to have read the bill, let alone understand its contents, let alone challenge them. The great champions of English liberties didn’t say a word.” @IanDunt

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2 years

My, oh my, it’s great to be back in South Africa. This is magical Banghoek. #2022sareport

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4 years

Happy birthday to me. Grenache time. #drinksa

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3 years

Loving the repainted old winery at Solar de Samaniego. #rioja

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4 years

Really feel like drinking a Beaujolais tonight. This is the 2017 from one of my favourite estates. #lockdownwine

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4 years

Tonight’s #lockdownwine is a 2004 Chapoutier white Hermitage. Honeyed, waxy, complex. Still full of life.

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5 years

A long read, but well worth your time to learn a little more about the Murdoch family. Hold your nose.

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4 years

Tonight’s #lockdownwine . Really felt like a Barolo. What are you drinking, friends?

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3 years

Ludicrously wonderful wine. #vegasicilia

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6 years

Hard at work on my 2018 Argentina report. Essential sustenance. #mate

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1 year

Powerful piece by ⁦ @Freedland ⁩. “Above all, to reflect that, but for the lottery of fate, it would not be them on those boats – it would be us.”

Gary Lineker spoke his mind. Now we should too: fate could have put any one of us in those migrant...

The BBC presenter’s sidelining will delight ministers eager for a distraction. The last thing they want is for us to see refugees as real people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Emotional day for me. Preparing to taste top Chenins from South Africa and the rest of the world with the amazing Samantha O’Keefe of @lismorewine and other friends. Two years ago, Sam’s winery and house were destroyed by fire. Now we’re back here, a testament to Sam’s spirit.

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6 years

Amazing dry English Chardonnay. This is mind blowingly good. Best non sparkling English white I’ve tasted.

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3 years

First tasting of the day at Marqués de Riscal. This should be fun. #rioja

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2 years

Settling down to watch the final round of the Masters with ⁦ @ozclarke ⁩. We should see these off by midnight.

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2 years

En route to Bariloche. #patagonia

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Trying the 1978 Viña Ardanza. A whisper of heaven. #rioja

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4 years

A delicious Rioja Reserva from the cooler “Atlantic” 2014 vintage is tonight’s #lockdownwine . What’s yours?

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4 years

Assyrtiko heaven.

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3 years

This was the railway network in Argentina in 1946. It was the sixth largest in the world. Now mostly abandoned.

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5 years

Theresa May’s political obituary via ⁦ @IanDunt ⁩. “She has no achievements, she conducted herself without grace or principle, and she governed the country as it was humiliated on the world stage.

May ends her premiership as she started it: With the greatest lie of all

Theresa May leaves Downing Street speaking of compromise and moderation - values she did noting to promote.

www.politics.co.uk

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3 years

My #2021sareport is live on my site. Time for a glass of this to celebrate.

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4 years

Tonight’s #lockdownwine . 2014 Domaine Fourrier Vieille Vigne. Mmmmm

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3 years

100-year-old Tempranillo in La Taconera in Laguardia. #rioja

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4 years

A delicious ⁦ @CatenaMalbec ⁩ with some age is tonight’s #lockdownwine . Abrazo, ⁦ @alevigilmalbec ⁩!

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2 years

And it’s a wrap. After three weeks, 3000 kilometres, 1492 wines tasted from 291 bodegas, 133 of which I visited in person, it’s time to head home. Thanks to ⁦ @mgrapesland ⁩ and the amazing team @santamariabrioneshotel , my home from home. #rioja #riojawine #riojareport