Today's letter home from Singapore: meanwhileinsingapore.substack.com/p/32-singapo...

This month's letter home is all about the signs of Singapore. Read for free!

meanwhileinsingapore.substack.com/p/30-the-man...

For anyone that would like to see the first 30 pages of my book, Wine & The Food of Asia, there's a pdf link on my website here: www.richardhemmingmw.com/portfolio

For every wine communicator here on Bluesky: please enter the #67awards! It's open now, free to enter, and aims to celebrate the best wine communicators world-wide in six different categories, each with a prize of £2,000.

Info and entry form at www.67awards.com - spread the word!

UK wine people, I hope this is in your diaries: a really rather very bloody good Rhône tasting: www.rhoneroots.com

Random recco: The Kings Arms at Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, pictured here at sunset on Christmas Eve. Atmospheric location, timewarp interior, well-kept beers.

www.thekingsarms-ne.co.uk

Rostaing Lézardes 1998 @ £12, which is their Collines Rhodaniennes Syrah, probably not intended to age this long, but even so: yes or no?

Coriole Sangiovese 2018 @ £18: yes or no?

Anthony Paret Condrieu 2016 @ £24: yes or no?

Spice Route Grenache 2012 @ £8 - yes, 2012 at £8. Yes or ... yes?

Wine people, what would you have done?

Château d'Angludet 1970 @ £25 - good fill level but zero provenance: yes or no?

Every second Sunday of the month, I publish a letter home from Singapore. It's free to read, sometimes funny and takes max three minutes. Here's this month's:

meanwhileinsingapore.substack.com/p/25-going-t...

Sunday lunch: three recipes from the Wine & Food of Asia book: Kapitan Chicken Curry with oaked Marlborough SB; Bindi Dopiaza with Levantine Hill Chardonnay; Lamb kofte with Ridge Geyserville 2013.

Singapore alarm clock, also known as the kuel.

Hello wine friends. The slogan on this label seems appropriate.

Photo from Vivino.