Mastodawn

Jun 12, 2025

A brilliant moment sur Mer - juxtaposition of the dry, over the sweet - en route for a new journey.
https://www.hudin.com/the-wines-of-collioure-banyuls-2025/

The wines of Collioure-Banyuls 2025

For several years now, I've been compiling reports on the Roussillon region of Southern France. When tasting through the samples at the CIVR (the local regulatory and promotion body), there was always this brilliant moment when I'd hit the wines of Collioure, the dry wine appellation that overlaps with the dessert wines of Banyuls. It was as if all...

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Patrick

May 16, 2025

La Marina Alta, Spain's central coast.
25% earth and 100% passion from Mara Bañó and her Moscatel devotion. Short intro from Alicante's appellation sub-region - Spain's oldest recognised D.O. https://youtu.be/68I8N8SyTdI

Entrevista amb Mara Bañó, Enóloga de Les Freses, Celler en la Marina Alta. (Avance)

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Patrick

Mar 29, 2025

Allison Levine 🥂Mar 27, 2025

The Festival of Forgotten Grapes is for the wine lover looking for something new and off the beaten path.

Date: Saturday, March 29th, 2pm-5pm
Tickets: $69

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.festivalofforgottengrapes.com

Patrick

Mar 29, 2025

Thorough as usual Areni + Buyer Interview https://www.the-buyer.net/insight/areni-global-on-the-new-skills-the-wine-industry-urgently-needs-to-attract

The Buyer | Areni Global on the new skills the wine industry needs to attract

“Building educational programmes that balance wine knowledge and business skills is critical for the future of our industry.” That in a nutshell captures the work that Areni Global l, the independent think tank dedicated to the future of fine wine, has done in analysing the potential skills gaps there are in the wine industry and identifying where businesses needing to be investing their resources in order to recruit the right talent to take the sector forwards. Areni Global’s co-founder, Pauline Vicard, explains why it thinks it’s time to “Rethink Education”.

Patrick

Mar 3, 2025

Very touching hommage, 'to the ultimate ‘secret agent’ of Bordeaux' - as described by fellow Bordeaux Insider, Bill Blatch will be missed https://janeanson.com/obituary-bill-blatch

Obituary: Bill Blatch - Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

This article is an obituary for Bill Blatch, long time member of the Bordeaux wine trade who died in February 2025

Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

Patrick

Mar 3, 2025

Maximilian Henning Mar 3, 2025

In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.

#eu #europeanunion #opensource #activitypub #mastodon

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-source-funding-on-the-brink-delivering-whats-needed-to-make-europe-sovereign/

Open source funding on the brink: „Delivering what’s needed to make Europe sovereign“

The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU. But that could soon come to an end.

netzpolitik.org

Patrick

Mar 3, 2025

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Mar 3, 2025

Friends. I’m honored to be part of a team who is archiving data being targeted by fascists: science, health, DEI, climate…all of it.

It’s exhausting, mentally psychologically. But totally worth it.

What @lavaeolus began is now a thriving group effort. There’s a core group of us working feverishly, but anyone is welcome to join us.

Learn how you can get involved:
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Patrick

Feb 11, 2025

Yes, what is it with the somm scene in the Baltics?
Brilliant interview by W+P https://wine-partners.at/en/news/sommeliers-baltics-interviews

Top-Sommeliers aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen im Interview

Mikk Parre (Estland), Martynas Pravilonis (Litauen) und Raimonds Tomsons (Lettland) sind international gefragte Somms. Mit Ehrgeiz, Biss und Passion haben sie sich an die Spitze gearbeitet, räumen bei den wichtigsten Wettbewerben ab. Wie konnte ausgerechnet das Baltikum zum Epizentrum der Top-Sommellerie werden und wa...

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Patrick

Jul 25, 2023

Taylor Lorenz Jul 25, 2023

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. #twitter #tech #elonmusk #x #twittermigration #twitterlogo #elon #musk