Peter Stafford-Bow
@peterstaffordbow.bsky.social
Novelist, Minstrel of Wine. 🍷 Author of the Felix Hart Novels including Corkscrew and Eastern Promise.
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Where I drink wine in Bordeaux and realise that the only future for Britain and France is another merger.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Where I drink wine in Bordeaux and realise that the only future for Britain and France is another merger.
A little story of my visit to the Agly Valley in Roussillon, where I picked pert bunches of Grenache and trod upon them.
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October 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A little story of my visit to the Agly Valley in Roussillon, where I picked pert bunches of Grenache and trod upon them.
(Substack link in bio)
(Substack link in bio)
Are yellow cups the new yellow bags? #selfridges
April 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Are yellow cups the new yellow bags? #selfridges
Great tinned fish range in KaDeWe, Berlin. 🐟
December 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Great tinned fish range in KaDeWe, Berlin. 🐟
Am I too anglophone? Or do these guys know exactly what they’re doing? 🇩🇪
December 8, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Am I too anglophone? Or do these guys know exactly what they’re doing? 🇩🇪
A bottle salvaged from the terrible Ahr flood of 2021. Cork and wine in perfect condition. Ethereal frankincense and sour cherries.
(Served at Wine Bistro L’Escalier, Köln.)
(Served at Wine Bistro L’Escalier, Köln.)
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
A bottle salvaged from the terrible Ahr flood of 2021. Cork and wine in perfect condition. Ethereal frankincense and sour cherries.
(Served at Wine Bistro L’Escalier, Köln.)
(Served at Wine Bistro L’Escalier, Köln.)
Nationalise! Now! (The trains, not the pubs.) #EustonTap
December 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Nationalise! Now! (The trains, not the pubs.) #EustonTap
For those who observe it, Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day! 🍷
(Pictures from The Remedy, London, most wines more Beaujolais than Nouveau.)
(Pictures from The Remedy, London, most wines more Beaujolais than Nouveau.)
November 21, 2024 at 10:49 PM
For those who observe it, Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day! 🍷
(Pictures from The Remedy, London, most wines more Beaujolais than Nouveau.)
(Pictures from The Remedy, London, most wines more Beaujolais than Nouveau.)
I think you have to go heavy or go home…
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I think you have to go heavy or go home…
And for those of us not in Seville…
November 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
And for those of us not in Seville…
Magnificent autumnal display in the window of P. Legrand, one of Paris’s most venerable wine shops.
November 10, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Magnificent autumnal display in the window of P. Legrand, one of Paris’s most venerable wine shops.
Sneaked in to the first million #EarlyAdopter
September 18, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Sneaked in to the first million #EarlyAdopter
Fine wines, top books, posters & tea towels at the Real Wine Fair, Tobacco Dock
April 28, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Fine wines, top books, posters & tea towels at the Real Wine Fair, Tobacco Dock
Are audiobooks destroying traditional literature? I hope not. But, just in case, here’s 11 hours 8 minutes of mellifluous, tannin-bathed excitement!
Eastern Promise, out now on selected multinational audio streaming platforms.
Eastern Promise, out now on selected multinational audio streaming platforms.
December 11, 2023 at 9:25 PM
Are audiobooks destroying traditional literature? I hope not. But, just in case, here’s 11 hours 8 minutes of mellifluous, tannin-bathed excitement!
Eastern Promise, out now on selected multinational audio streaming platforms.
Eastern Promise, out now on selected multinational audio streaming platforms.