David Round MW

My Concise Guide To Food And Drink Matching: drink what you like and eat what you like, when you like. If you like.

Serbia, Brazil and now Israel (fingers crossed) voting against US / Russian-style fascism, authoritarianism and aggression. Carney and Burnham showing leadership for rationalism, progressivism and liberal democracy. Now we need US, French and German voters to step up to the plate.

I took a moment to ponder our level of preparedness and find that I have about 10 cans of really high quality tomatoes that I always bulk buy when on offer along with about 100 bottles of wine, much of it quite calorific. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s really weird to see these sorts of queues in an election. I don’t think I have ever had more than half a dozen people to wait behind and that is on much higher turnouts.

Woohoo! Pour Now has won a Winnovation award! Pour Now “creates a more direct path from marketing investment to measurable retail sales within the compliance requirements of the three-tier system”. We’re only operating in the US now, but watch this space. wineindustryadvisor.com/2026/10/21/f...

Judging 50 fortified and dessert wines today was a huge pleasure - so many great wines. There were some extraordinary bargains in the £20-30 range, especially the De Bortoli on the left. But I felt that I earned my ox cheek pie and chips.

Don't let anybody tell you wine is for snobs and elitists. It's the people's drink. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/d...

I’m still trying to work out how, after phoning Hannah from the shop to check if we had any horseradish sauce and she confirmed we don’t, I still managed somehow to come home without actually buying any.

Extremely pleased with this purchase from a bookshop in Camden. Published in 1953.

The prospects of me having a productive morning have just nose-dived.

Other wines are available.

Prompted by the new redesign, I’m excited to find that my spice draw can trace Sainsbury’s packaging history back to last century.

Lambeth Council has become the first London borough to take our Butterfly-Friendly Council pledge 🦋 The pledge recognises the urgent Butterfly Emergency facing butterflies and moths, and sets out Lambeth's commitment to ensuring public spaces like parks and streets are more butterfly-friendly.

Liverpool’s righteous fury vs City’s indignant denialism Could be an absolute classic.

I had a small(ish) celebration for a big birthday at the weekend and brought out this trio with the cheese. Rieussec 2010 is an old favourite and incredible value at £170 per 6 in bond - seamless, perfectly balanced. Taylor 1994 elegant and perfumed. Bual 1987 one of the best wines I have drunk.

It's distressing to see what has happened to the Greens. They have ushered in the same hard left element that almost destroyed Labour. Please support your Jewish friends. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hope they stay away. Giving a base for US presidents to conduct wars of aggression with long-range bombers just undermines our own national securuty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former Labour Corbynites have found a new home under Polanski’s weak leadership. It’s going to cost the Greens electorally at just the moment Labour is finding its feet again.

No civilised country should be killing citizens - even convicted criminals. Not even having the competence to carry out the execution is just another reason for not doing it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Russians now quietly support or actively endorse all of the nationalists in Great Britain: Reform, the SNP and Plaid Cymru. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a very good Syrah but I think it has been massively over-hyped. You can get this quality at less than half the price in Côte-Rôtie. I regret buying 6 bottles.

Just ran a rave for 1,000 people at fabric. In case you’re wondering what I get up to at weekends. Which you obviously weren’t. #fabric #rave #bigfishlittlefish

Wine isn't complicated. Some people just like to make it seem so. And some people like to de-mystify it. They are often the same people.

It’s just crazy how dangerous it has become to eat basics like lettuce, eggs, chicken and pasta in the US. That’s about 50% of my diet. Throw in some sort of yoghurt contamination and I would probably starve over there. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/p...

"The production side of the wine industry, which so desperately depends on wine writing and criticism, isn’t helping a bit...most of those wineries don’t even bother to subscribe to the very publications from which they are hoping to receive coverage." That's very depressing.

Will X tell users when a small-minded racist called Elon Musk forces it to limit their posts?

I had no idea that cat ownership was not seen as masculine, but get me, with my cat-loving bucking of gender stereotypes. Also, dogs are generally unacceptable - smelly, aggressive and lacking in executive function - but I operate a friends and family exemption here.

This is very good. I have been working on capturing all official regions, subregions and appellations and as many unofficial ones as possible and am at over 4,000 now. But I'm doing it for website taxonomy rather than an end in itself. And I do love a good map.

Good analysis of the 67 Pall Mall controversy from Felicity Carter. But “you don’t know that and you can’t prove it” is what I would expect from a defence lawyer in The Wire rather than a spokesperson for The 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards. www.drinksinsider.com/p/did-a-chat...

When excessive AI use at my workplace began to alarm me, I didn’t know about the joining-a-sex-cult option for AI sceptics. Amazing thread.

www.makerstable.com/p/do-the-rig...

Wine-Searcher closes down Marketplace, the multi-merchant check-out basket it launched 3 years ago. www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/09/ma...

This is such a bad look for the world of wine. Even allowing for the possibility that it’s not AI-aided (quite a small one, it seems), the piece in question is so formulaic, anodyne and dull that it hardly showcases the best wine writing today. I just don’t know what 67 Pall Mall is doing here.

I guess I have always been a Zionist, firmly believing that the state of Israel should exist and flourish and that its security should be guaranteed. I also believe that under its current leadership it has become a rogue state and that the UK is right to do this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Open Wine Map now covers 21 countries - the UK just landed 🇬🇧 Filters group by country (~180 regions was a lot to scroll), and PDO/PGI now sits alongside the national term: Barolo DOCG (PDO), Priorat DOQ (PDO). openwinemap.com

Impressive. The contrast with many neighbouring countries is stark. Now let’s try not to screw it up.

This Channel 4 scoop is now the top story on the notoriously cautious BBC News website. Nigel Farage and Reform are being totally enveloped by stories of their corruption. The “establishment stitch-up” defence won’t work now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just read a tasting note on a brand's website that described a wine's finish as lasting "roughly 16 seconds". I have questions. Who needs that level of accuracy? Is that level of accuracy even possible? How is 16 seconds framed as timing it "roughly"? Why am I even bothering asking these questions?

Europe is adapting to the new reality. “DNB (Dutch central bank) said that gold that is held with the Bank of England "is regarded as the world's most easily tradable gold," and therefore more readily available in a crisis than if it was still in the US or Canada.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Corporate America enthusiastically backed fascism by supplying the German war effort against Great Britain up to late 1941, so the only people who can be surprised at the continuation of this pattern of behaviour must have no grasp of the history of the past century.