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"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
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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

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

When a minister makes a claim like "mental illness is overdiagnosed" on national TV, I think it would be good if media outlets told the public what the evidence says as opposed to uncritically repeating the claim

submitted 45 days ago • 19 comments

Dear world, please stop trying to coerce me into using expensive and pointless AI products. Yours, Nina

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I have just seen a young person walking along a peak-hour London pavement reading a BOOK and it has made my day. 📕

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Good. I wish noise nuisance via phone were as socially unacceptable in the UK as it is in some other countries…

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 84 days ago • 9 comments

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.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Surely also quite a good way of trolling the people who did…

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The best cinema, a hangover from the days when cinemas actually had personalities. Save the Prince Charles!

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

If you think the peacock chasing my snacks is scary, you should see my face. #DontMessWithMyApéro

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Wood delivery at lunchtime which will require transporting down to the cellar and it’s going to rain all day. Buck up please, 2025.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Powerful piece by @kimwillsher.bsky.social on the Pelicot trial and the questions that remain unanswered

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, this.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

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 🥂

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 152 days ago • 2 comments

When will the bbc stop amplifying xenophobic liars?

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

Polishing wineglasses the morning after a dinner party, sparing a thought for sommeliers who have to do this every day… #KlutzWithAPolishingCloth

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

Certainly true of the two I reviewed… @cluboenologique.bsky.social

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Back a week, frantically writing up about a dozen stories but still missing the light in #Australia. View from my cousins’ beach house which hasn’t changed inside since the 1970s #Victoria #family #nostalgia

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

Opened the wrong wine for this beautiful sea bass… then swapped it for this Greco Di Tufo from @feudi_di_san_gregorio which was perfect. #Mediterranean #InternalisingTheSunshine #WeekendDinner

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Just went to fill in a form online and, in the field for my surname, the automated suggestion from my computer was... Meursault. Rather pleased by this #CallMeBurgundy

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

submitted 167 days ago • 645 comments

In fact we are quite pleased with ourselves #meat

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Just back from #Australia and countering jetlag/procrastinating by joining this place. Hoping for something like the Twitter of old but I'll settle for nothing like X.

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments