Nina Caplan
@ninacaplan.bsky.social
"Bacchantian maiden, parching for wine". Wine for Times Luxx, travel for The Times, Travel+Leisure, Food&Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, Club Oenologique etc. Award-winning book The Wandering Vine, ✍️book on Michelin. Lives in London & France. www.ninacaplan.com
As a wine and travel writer finishing a book on the Michelin Guide, I have questions about their recent announcement that they are expanding (further) into wine. And @vinography.com has asked them all. What Exactly is the Michelin Guide Up To? www.vinography.com/2025/10/what...
What Exactly is the Michelin Guide Up To?
In a press conference last week, executives at the Michelin Guide indicated they'd soon start reviewing wines. Here are my thoughts.
www.vinography.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
As a wine and travel writer finishing a book on the Michelin Guide, I have questions about their recent announcement that they are expanding (further) into wine. And @vinography.com has asked them all. What Exactly is the Michelin Guide Up To? www.vinography.com/2025/10/what...
So the Thames Water WhatsApp chat gently explains that, as every year, there will be a « small increase in your payments ». That increase for this year? 46.8%. @ofwat.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
So the Thames Water WhatsApp chat gently explains that, as every year, there will be a « small increase in your payments ». That increase for this year? 46.8%. @ofwat.bsky.social
For anyone else old enough* to remember the Monkees, this @theguardian.com interview with last surviving Monkee Mickey Dolenz is fantastic. Play a drinking game with the famous names.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
*not the first time round, I hasten to add
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
*not the first time round, I hasten to add
‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees
He was in one of the biggest groups in the world – all without playing a note. As the last surviving Monkee turns 80, he remembers 60s fame – and what happened when the band broke free
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
For anyone else old enough* to remember the Monkees, this @theguardian.com interview with last surviving Monkee Mickey Dolenz is fantastic. Play a drinking game with the famous names.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
*not the first time round, I hasten to add
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
*not the first time round, I hasten to add
Dear world, please stop trying to coerce me into using expensive and pointless AI products. Yours, Nina
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Dear world, please stop trying to coerce me into using expensive and pointless AI products. Yours, Nina
Good luck this week was taking the Eurostar back from Paris a few hours before a 500kg unexploded WW2 bomb was found a few miles away, disrupting transport for the entire day today
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Good luck this week was taking the Eurostar back from Paris a few hours before a 500kg unexploded WW2 bomb was found a few miles away, disrupting transport for the entire day today
I have just seen a young person walking along a peak-hour London pavement reading a BOOK and it has made my day. 📕
February 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I have just seen a young person walking along a peak-hour London pavement reading a BOOK and it has made my day. 📕
Good. I wish noise nuisance via phone were as socially unacceptable in the UK as it is in some other countries…
February 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Good. I wish noise nuisance via phone were as socially unacceptable in the UK as it is in some other countries…
Reposted by Nina Caplan
Microsoft just put up the price of your subscription without your consent. Mine rose from £79.99 per year to over £100. The extra is because they've strapped their 'AI copilot' in to every program. You can refuse this increase and these features. Instructions below.
Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
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answers.microsoft.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Microsoft just put up the price of your subscription without your consent. Mine rose from £79.99 per year to over £100. The extra is because they've strapped their 'AI copilot' in to every program. You can refuse this increase and these features. Instructions below.
Modern communication technology won’t be brought down by China. It will be brought down by me, the next time predictive text changes a perfectly correct its to it’s.
February 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Modern communication technology won’t be brought down by China. It will be brought down by me, the next time predictive text changes a perfectly correct its to it’s.
Surely also quite a good way of trolling the people who did…
Appointing wildly incompetent people to your cabinet is just another way of trolling the people who didn't vote for you. America be damned.
January 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Surely also quite a good way of trolling the people who did…
Just one of many authors whose works were used by Open AI without permission or payment, reading this with a wry smile… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data
The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Just one of many authors whose works were used by Open AI without permission or payment, reading this with a wry smile… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
The best cinema, a hangover from the days when cinemas actually had personalities. Save the Prince Charles!
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The best cinema, a hangover from the days when cinemas actually had personalities. Save the Prince Charles!
Never read the name Eustace (not a frequent occurrence tbf) without hearing the first line of Voyage of the Dawn Treader: “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” #StillInNarnia
January 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Never read the name Eustace (not a frequent occurrence tbf) without hearing the first line of Voyage of the Dawn Treader: “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” #StillInNarnia
If you think the peacock chasing my snacks is scary, you should see my face. #DontMessWithMyApéro
January 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you think the peacock chasing my snacks is scary, you should see my face. #DontMessWithMyApéro
Wood delivery at lunchtime which will require transporting down to the cellar and it’s going to rain all day. Buck up please, 2025.
January 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wood delivery at lunchtime which will require transporting down to the cellar and it’s going to rain all day. Buck up please, 2025.
Apparently my Old-Fashioned is taking so long to arrive because the bartender* is double-checking his method by looking up the clip of Don Draper making one in Mad Men
*husband
*husband
December 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Apparently my Old-Fashioned is taking so long to arrive because the bartender* is double-checking his method by looking up the clip of Don Draper making one in Mad Men
*husband
*husband
It is always fun to talk to Peter Gago. But it’s even more fun when there’s also a visit to see 140-year-old Barossa Valley vines that contribute to some of the top @penfoldsken.bsky.social wines … #Australia #finewine
This year, @penfolds.bsky.social celebrates a milestone anniversary and the landing of its icon wine, Grange, on La Place de Bordeaux. @ninacaplan.bsky.social tells the brand’s compelling origin story and speaks to chief winemaker Peter Gago about what lies ahead, succession plans included.
Penfolds hits 180
As Australia's Penfolds turns 180, Nina Caplan tells the wine brand’s story and asks winemaker Peter Gago what's next, succession plans included
cluboenologique.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
It is always fun to talk to Peter Gago. But it’s even more fun when there’s also a visit to see 140-year-old Barossa Valley vines that contribute to some of the top @penfoldsken.bsky.social wines … #Australia #finewine
Powerful piece by @kimwillsher.bsky.social on the Pelicot trial and the questions that remain unanswered
Would like to thank Observer editors Lucy Rock and Rebecca Myers for supporting this project despite a very difficult week. The strike was the least of it!
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
‘Gisele is waiting for explanations’: the dark questions at the heart of the Pelicot trial
The evidence heard in court has horrified the world. But as the trial comes to an end, the questions it has raised about ‘ordinary’ men, French society, and rape culture have still not been answered
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Powerful piece by @kimwillsher.bsky.social on the Pelicot trial and the questions that remain unanswered
Yes, this.
got seven or eight working days left til the break and, I'm going to be honest, said break still feels about as distant from present time as the world Dune is set in
December 11, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Yes, this.
In Luxx @thetimes.com today, I attempt to squeeze as many of my favourite big-brand #Champagnes as possible into a very small space indeed 🥂
December 7, 2024 at 3:05 PM
In Luxx @thetimes.com today, I attempt to squeeze as many of my favourite big-brand #Champagnes as possible into a very small space indeed 🥂
I wonder when companies will realise how badly their use of crap couriers reflects on them. UPS demands you sign up (ie give them your data) to change a delivery. They send no updates.. meanwhile the company the parcel is from keeps sending Black Friday marketing crap so now I hate them both. #Moan
November 29, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I wonder when companies will realise how badly their use of crap couriers reflects on them. UPS demands you sign up (ie give them your data) to change a delivery. They send no updates.. meanwhile the company the parcel is from keeps sending Black Friday marketing crap so now I hate them both. #Moan
When will the bbc stop amplifying xenophobic liars?
Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
November 28, 2024 at 5:03 PM
When will the bbc stop amplifying xenophobic liars?
American thanksgiving seems an excellent excuse to post this painting of a turkey, from 17th-century India, when the bird (a gift to the ruler) would have been almost unimaginably exotic. From Great Mughals exhibition at the V&A.
November 28, 2024 at 8:11 AM
American thanksgiving seems an excellent excuse to post this painting of a turkey, from 17th-century India, when the bird (a gift to the ruler) would have been almost unimaginably exotic. From Great Mughals exhibition at the V&A.
The special pain of writing about springtime Australia on a day when London seems about to succumb to a hurricane and night fell about an hour after breakfast
November 24, 2024 at 6:58 PM
The special pain of writing about springtime Australia on a day when London seems about to succumb to a hurricane and night fell about an hour after breakfast