Jane Maylin🍇🍷
@janetrad.bsky.social
Nunc es bibendum. 🍷
Wine, mostly. Champagne, often. English by birth, French by decree, European by inclination.
https://www.traduction-vins-spiritueux.com/
Wine, mostly. Champagne, often. English by birth, French by decree, European by inclination.
https://www.traduction-vins-spiritueux.com/
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Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
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Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
What a nonsense visual. The population of the United States is 340 million, while the Netherlands is only 18 million.
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
What a nonsense visual. The population of the United States is 340 million, while the Netherlands is only 18 million.
Douglas Blyde writes brilliantly and particularly about wine. But this latest in his Postcards from the Wreckage takes a strange unsettling turn....
On the Use of Men as Fertiliser
A report from the Norwegian field now poured in dining rooms across the north...
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Douglas Blyde writes brilliantly and particularly about wine. But this latest in his Postcards from the Wreckage takes a strange unsettling turn....
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french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article
It's Badger Beer Ladies Day at Wincanton!
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Discover our unique and diverse range of characterful beers with different ABVs, tasting profiles and stories. Find your perfect beer at Badger Brewery.
www.badgerbeers.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's Badger Beer Ladies Day at Wincanton!
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
"The decision on whether or not to include Voltis in AOP Champagne production specifications will be made after the 2032 harvest""We are learning to get to know it” #voltis #champagne
Champagne harvests its first Voltis grapes
Champagne’s 8.9 hectares of Voltis, the white grape variety resistant to downy and powdery mildew, were harvested for the first time this year.
www.vitisphere.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The decision on whether or not to include Voltis in AOP Champagne production specifications will be made after the 2032 harvest""We are learning to get to know it” #voltis #champagne
DHL sent me 8 e-mails exhorting me to be at home yesterday to receive my parcel. Am still waiting.
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
DHL sent me 8 e-mails exhorting me to be at home yesterday to receive my parcel. Am still waiting.
And what do you have for lunch when the heavens have opened? Why, beans on toast of course. #comfortfood
RAIN. THUNDER. ⚡⚡. The lot.
⛈️Une ligne orageuse de forte intensité (QLCS) circule actuellement entre Roussillon et Golfe du Lion, avec pluies intenses et forte activité électrique (4.500 éclairs en 1h). Ils vont progresser sur l'Hérault au cours des 2 prochaines heures.
➡️suivi temps réel : www.keraunos.org/temps-reel/c...
➡️suivi temps réel : www.keraunos.org/temps-reel/c...
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
And what do you have for lunch when the heavens have opened? Why, beans on toast of course. #comfortfood
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RAIN. THUNDER. ⚡⚡. The lot.
⛈️Une ligne orageuse de forte intensité (QLCS) circule actuellement entre Roussillon et Golfe du Lion, avec pluies intenses et forte activité électrique (4.500 éclairs en 1h). Ils vont progresser sur l'Hérault au cours des 2 prochaines heures.
➡️suivi temps réel : www.keraunos.org/temps-reel/c...
➡️suivi temps réel : www.keraunos.org/temps-reel/c...
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
RAIN. THUNDER. ⚡⚡. The lot.
A modern variant on my recurring anxiety dream where I get lost in a big city. This time I tried to use Google maps, but it wouldn't work. 😵💫
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A modern variant on my recurring anxiety dream where I get lost in a big city. This time I tried to use Google maps, but it wouldn't work. 😵💫
"in the 1970s advertising spending was almost consistently higher on sherry than on any other wines or spirits" !!!
My blog is out: The strange story of British sherry drinking: It's Sherry Week: a time to enjoy Spain's greatest fortified #wine - and ponder its sad decline in popularity. Plus: some of the top festive-season wine tastings
aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/the-strang...
aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/the-strang...
The strange story of British sherry drinking
It's Sherry Week: a time to enjoy Spain's greatest fortified wine - and ponder its sad decline in popularity in this country. Plus: some of the top festive-season wine tastings
aviewfrommytable.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"in the 1970s advertising spending was almost consistently higher on sherry than on any other wines or spirits" !!!
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
Having enjoyed its older brother Maximus, I decided to try little Romulus from Chateau Camplazens in La Clape on one of the highest points of this rocky outcrop overlooking the Mediterranean. Went very well with the rare gigot and 30 month Conté.
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Having enjoyed its older brother Maximus, I decided to try little Romulus from Chateau Camplazens in La Clape on one of the highest points of this rocky outcrop overlooking the Mediterranean. Went very well with the rare gigot and 30 month Conté.
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France removes 20 copper preparations for organic viticulture. The ban affects all powder preparations as well as products like Kocide 2000 or Kocide Flow. Only two products – Champ Flo Ampli and Héliocuivre – remain permitted - under much stricter conditions
magazine.wein.plus/news/france-...
magazine.wein.plus/news/france-...
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
France removes 20 copper preparations for organic viticulture. The ban affects all powder preparations as well as products like Kocide 2000 or Kocide Flow. Only two products – Champ Flo Ampli and Héliocuivre – remain permitted - under much stricter conditions
magazine.wein.plus/news/france-...
magazine.wein.plus/news/france-...
Oh you are all such lovely people.
November 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Oh you are all such lovely people.
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"No baby comes out a religious bigot; it usually takes a village of religious bigots to help the little ones along. And history has shown that the easiest way to mass-produce bigots is to justify any prejudice as divinely ordained by God."
From SEPARATION of CHURCH AND HATE by
John Fugelsang
From SEPARATION of CHURCH AND HATE by
John Fugelsang
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"No baby comes out a religious bigot; it usually takes a village of religious bigots to help the little ones along. And history has shown that the easiest way to mass-produce bigots is to justify any prejudice as divinely ordained by God."
From SEPARATION of CHURCH AND HATE by
John Fugelsang
From SEPARATION of CHURCH AND HATE by
John Fugelsang
Happy Birthday to me
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Happy Birthday to me
A match that allows both {food and wine} to shine is rarer than rocking horse shit. We nailed it by systematically trying wine after wine with bite after bite, until we found the combination that made us both stop in our tracks, speechless with its deliciousness. by @simonjwoolf.com
Does the Perfect Wine Pairing Exist?
Maybe if you go for orange wine. Here's what changed my mind.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A match that allows both {food and wine} to shine is rarer than rocking horse shit. We nailed it by systematically trying wine after wine with bite after bite, until we found the combination that made us both stop in our tracks, speechless with its deliciousness. by @simonjwoolf.com
"The sisters aim to achieve what Whispering Angel did for rosé"....ie make a ton of money
Delevingne sisters face wrath of champagne makers over prosecco ads
Della Vite, the brand founded by Chloe, Cara and Poppy Delevingne, was asked to stop naming the famous fizz in their marketing by the Comité Champagne
www.thetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"The sisters aim to achieve what Whispering Angel did for rosé"....ie make a ton of money
Grand Designs fail. An unfinished £7m blot on a lovely English landscape. More money than sense.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Grand Designs fail. An unfinished £7m blot on a lovely English landscape. More money than sense.