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Delighted to have made the cover of
@spectator
having a good old harrumph about young people, new things, change etc. (£)
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This is what I'm going to do to when I retire.
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As a massive fan of their podcast it was an honour and great fun talking to the
@TheRestHistory
lads
@holland_tom
@dcsandbrook
about British history and booze.
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A winemaker told me last week that the myth that a silver spoon in a bottle neck keep the bubbles in champagne was put about by "the powerful spoon lobby."
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Mushrooms on toast: the breakfast of champignons.
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I won drink writer of the year at
#FANDMAWARDS
tonight for work in
@The_Fence_Mag
and on my blog. Feeling very smug now and also somehow a little sunburnt.
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@guywalters
and it gets better and better: "In 1908, he married Countess Friederike Maria Karoline Henriette Rosa Sabina Franziska Fugger von Babenhausen"
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The Queen with enormous bottle of Chambord.
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My father just called to tell me he has a case of 2010 Barolo that needs drinking. I love my dad.
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People in the drinks business who say just follow your dreams should preface it with, make a packet in the City, then follow your dreams.
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Andrew Jefford on food and wine pairing: "the subject bores me…. My own approach is to eat whatever’s going and drink the wine I most fancy, in a spirit of easy-going gastronomic anarchy. Generally it all works out fine.” From Drinking with the Valkries.
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Man pretended to be wine merchant rather than let girlfriend know he was massively into model trains.
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Discussing my book on English wine with my wife last night, and I worried that one of the chapters is a bit boring. She replied: "it's a wine book, of course it's going to be a bit boring. What did you expect?"
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Just been invited to a jamon evening at which the Spanish ambassador to London will be present.
And they haven't used to the word Hambassador.
A missed opportunity.
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I have a job! I start on Monday. Writing about spirits for
@MasterOfMalt
Pretty much a dream gig though it will mean getting dressed more often than I'm used to
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Just learned that Netflix and Chill is a euphemism for casual sex. Did everyone else know this?
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Publication day! I still can't quite believe it. This time last year I thought I'd never finish in time. It's a book about English wine but definitely aimed at general reader rather than wine bores like me. Please do buy & review, it all helps
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I used to think I liked going for a walk; I now realise I like walking to the pub.
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I have started a substack about drink, history and culture. Please do sign up, it will make me feel important and you'll get something interesting to read once a week. 1st up something on Dao, Salazar and John Le Carre.
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@nickfthilton
The bathos at the ending is so perfectly done that it feels like a deliberate joke
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I'm not much of a petition signer but if someone started one to get more Keith Floyd on the iplayer, I'd sign it like a shot. Come on BBC, in this dark times, the nation needs more Floyd.
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If I was setting the challenges on Masterchef, I'd come up with something like: "you've got a crippling hangover, people will be arriving in two hours and you're just been told that one of your guests is kind of vegan, but don't worry too much about it."
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Just finished
@DalrympleWill
's learned, moving 'From the Holy Mountain' - a journey through Christians in the middle east in the '90s. Perhaps the most tragic thing about it is it was in Syria where they were safest at the time. Brilliant book.
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Delighted to be officially drinks correspondent for the Critic and I have my own cartoon - a long held dreamed has been fulfilled.
We’re delighted that from the February issue onwards,
@HenryGJeffreys
is joining The Critic as our drink correspondent. Henry’s the
@Fortnums
Drink Writer of the Year and author of Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass.
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'My mother and I sometimes talk about “when we were little”. She was 15 when she got pregnant.' Loved this interview with
@therealmisti
about her mother
@KierstenWarren
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Today, I failed as a father. I meant to pack the leftover pasta Bolognese for my daughter's lunch, instead she got the tub of congealed gravy. She's being brave but I can see that I am now a diminished figure in her eyes.
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I wonder what stage in starting a distillery that the subject of branded gilets comes up. I'm assuming quite early in the process.
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Finished copies of Vines in a Cold Climate are here so here's the obligatory pic of author reading his own book.
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Spotted this magnificent Bristol 407 in M&S car park yesterday. I love the paintless aluminium body and that the owner was using 5 litre V8 to do the shopping in.
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Very sad to hear about the death of Anthony Barton. I emailed him cold when I was researching a book, and much to my surprise, he phoned and invited me out to Langoa for lunch. We began with vintage Pol, followed by the 82 Leoville, then the 86... An unforgettable experience.
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Vines in a Cold Climate is now the bestselling wine book on Amazon. I can't really ask for more than that. Thank you to everyone at
@AtlanticBooks
I'm over the moon.
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Just had some pics done for the new book: I seem to have gone for the evil '50s Latin teacher look.
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I'm delighted to learn that I'm on the shortlist for drinks writer of the year at
@fortnums
#FandMAwards
for work in the
@The_Fence_Mag
and on my blog. The competition is last year's winner
@Will_Hawkes
and Felipe Schrieberg.
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If you're not going to pay generously, pay promptly.
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We have to retire the word 'hand' from marketing. Just received a PR about a gin that's 'hand-crafted' and available from 'hand-picked' retailers. No more hand.
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I received an email this morning from arguably the world's greatest wine writer, Jancis Robinson, saying how much she enjoyed my English wine book: "Gosh what a tour de force!", she wrote. It doesn't really get better than that.
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Courtesy of my godson. This might be the funniest thank you letter ever.
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My glamorous mother-in-law
@KierstenWarren
has written a no. 1 bestseller (in children's pet books). It's a must for all cat lovers.
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The mid 00s really seems like a long time ago. Lad culture still reigned, and making a living out of boasting about your ill-treatment of women didn’t in any way seem odd.
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Found this in my parents' garage. Still full of fizz after 47 years - tasted a bit like a sparkling sauternes, if you can imagine such a thing.
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Online event alert! I'm doing a talk about British history and alcohol on Wednesday 2 February at 8pm. All you need is an internet connection, and you can bring your own drinks. It'll be enormous fun.
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We seem to have the most middle class plumbing problem ever, there's quinoa and parsley bubbling up into our bath.
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I find Instagram pretty much unusable these days - constant reels, videos, noise and accounts I don't follow when I just want to see photos of people's dogs, children, booze etc.
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Always a sad moment when little children stop using their own words for things. Our nearly 3 year old has just stopped calling 'lions' 'wollens'. She'll be leaving home soon.
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Happy birthday to the most glamorous mother-in-law in the world,
@KierstenWarren
It's been too long. x
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The latest Macallan decanter is frankly terrifying.
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"Seven Ways leaves you with the impression that if Brown found his house on fire, he would convene a summit of global thought leaders before he called the local firemen." Every sentence of
@Will___lloyd
review of Miliband & Brown's books is gold.
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Dry January, dry sherry. Am I doing this right?
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I'm putting together a list of words to be used sparingly when writing about drink (or writing generally). So far have 'iconic', 'curated', 'hand-picked'. Any others?
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From this month I will be going down to two days a week as editor on the Master of Malt blog and spend the rest of the time driving around the country in my old Merc researching a book on English wine called 'Vines in a Cold Climate'.
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I try to avoid posting wine bottles on twitter cos it makes me look like a drunk but lunch today was pretty lavish.
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Finished copies of my new book The Cocktail Dictionary are here! The team at
@Octopus_Books
has done a splendid job. Pub date 3 September.
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This is something I've wanted to write for years so thank you to
@The_Fence_Mag
for publishing it. My small part in Russell Brand's rise to ubiquity (apologies in advance as I'll be posting about this all afternoon).
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Just heard that Steven Spurrier has died. He was such a charming man and an absolute joy to taste wine with because he took an interest in everyone's opinions. Even mine. He'll be greatly missed.
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Drowning man saved by a tiki bar full of priests - probably the best booze-related story ever.
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Drunk baker survives Titanic. I love this story: "The baker had nonchalantly stepped off the stern of the sinking liner. Then, as 1,500 screaming, panicked souls drowned and froze to death around him, Joughin calmly paddled around until dawn."
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@edcumming
It's a lovely wine, sometimes during a zombie apocalypse you don't want anything too complicated. And very versatile!
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Excellent stuff from
@edwest
on making history fun. We were lucky enough to have a history teacher who had an actual battle axe which is used to swing around when teaching the Norman Conquest. Also didn't stint on the bloody details
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Apparently Winebuyers has not been paying suppliers since 2019. Been looking through twitter and it seems its customers aren't much happier.
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The gin boom is now officially over
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Delighted to announce that I'm doing a book with
@Octopus_Books
called The Cocktail Dictionary. It's due out September next year. Now I just have to write the bloody thing.
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Does anyone listen to their own recorded voice and not just die a little inside?
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Woke up to this message on Instagram "I am a French businessman living in London. I would like to know if you knew people who would fancy to buy an Armagnac domaine?" I have to say, I am tempted.
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My god Talisker 18 now selling for £175 a bottle, when it was £80 this time last year. Diageo must have received a huge gas bill.
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The dry january/ veganuary emails are pouring in. God, how depressing.
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Well, the old book might be temporarily unavailable but you can now order my new one: 'Vines in a Cold Climate: the people behind the English wine revolution'. Publishing 3 August. V. exciting.
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North African whisky is clearly coming on in leaps and bounds as I've just been sent a sample of an "elegant and Moorish single malt."
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When a wine brand goes on about being 'transparent' and 'disruptive' you always know they're going to be very unclear about where the grapes come from and where the wine is made.
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It's hard to come to any conclusion except that I was a bit of a tit in my 20s.
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Quote just in from Russell Norman for my forthcoming book: “Captivating, impeccably researched and endlessly entertaining. Henry Jeffreys embraces his subject like a scholar but with wry humour and a novelist’s knack for storytelling. It’s the best book on wine I have read.”
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Replace the cancelled Negroni week with Dubonnet week. It's what she would have wanted.
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Some helpful advice from an editor: could you make it funnier and more interesting?
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Just been sent a sample of rosé that's "as sophisticated, easy-going and fun loving as you are." They've clearly never met me.
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My book on English wine is published in the US today. I would describe my sales expectations as.... um... realistic.
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Oh no, really sad to hear about Martin Amis. I'll always treasure the moments we spent together at the quiz machine at the Sun in Splendour in Notting Hill. He was there every night in the early '00s & when I was feeling brave I'd stand next to him and suggest answers.
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Wrote something on wine bars without mentioning Noble Rot (apart from just then), some of them aren't even in London!
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Top soft metaller Jon Bon Jovi is doing a pink wine with Gerard Bertrand and they're NOT calling it Jon Bon Rosé. Instead it's called Hampton Water. A missed opportunity.
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I love this country
Dry January failed to dent booze sales in the UK, according to these figures.
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Just spent about 45 minutes cutting up wood that will last 30 mins on the fire. I don't know how anyone got anything done in the middle ages.
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@MagsIrwin
Frank Key's 'Brief Lives' came out a few years back and really deserved to be a bestseller a la Schott's Miscellany.
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This is something I've been reluctant to write for years but after some recent experiences, I think it's time we stop lionising the NHS (ignore the headline, the piece is more nuanced than that)
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The 00s was indeed an odd time. I'm thinking of Russell Brand's appearance on Woman’s Hour to promote My Booky Wook when Jenni Murray et al half-heartedly brought up his appalling treatment of women before falling head over heels for the “I’m a bad whittle boy" act.
Think this piece by
@HenryGJeffreys
holds up really well. Captures Brand’s deep unpleasantness — and his genuine talent. Also very acute on the sexual politics of the 00s.
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Pernod Ricard has gone for the classic Bond villain lair meets luxury spa look for its new single malt distillery in China.
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Just been asked to judge a cocktail competition virtually ie. can't taste the cocktails. Bananas!
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Sometimes life's too short not to drink bad wine
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I was told not to contact the GP about a vaccine, I'm in group 6 for risk cos asthma, but did anyway yesterday and got my first jab that day. Result!
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A drinks brand is doing a publicity stunt where they print a rule book and then encourage people to burn it. Am I being over sensitive or have they not thought the connotations of this through properly?
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Mark Knopfler is doing a collaboration with Portobello Road Distillery and they're NOT calling Sultans of Gin. Booo! Instead it's ‘Local Heroes No.3’. Boring.
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Had a drink last night called a Peckham lemonade which sounds like some old school gangland term: "he was a bleedin' grass so I gave him a dose of Peckham lemonade."
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It was only recently that I realised that this 🚨 symbol was a police siren. I thought it was a Fez and had it down on my list of internet things I didn't understand that people put Turkish hats on their tweets. TBH twitter was more fun when I thought it was full of Fezs.
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Social media is so weird: I bought a car battery yesterday, in person, and now the shop is liking my wedding anniversary pics on Instagram.
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"I want my wine merchant to wear one those blue cotton jackets that French peasants stopped wearing years ago and are now only sported by English wine merchants or retired lawyers in Kent with a passion for fixing sash windows."
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It's long been rumoured than Japanese blends contain Scotch whisky, now the rules have been tightened so that only whisky distilled in Japan can be labelled as 'Japanese whisky'.
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