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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How narrowly, if at all, can I escape ‘Pseud’s Corner’? This actually started as a poem (with the word ‘incarnadine’), so there is hope! 20 works of art and the wine I would drink with them. www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wwc...

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Some answers (Irrigation, various canopy management measures)

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Difficult to know what the AoC prohibits which they want to do, or what it demands which they do not.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Yes indeed. There was some machine harvesting in Pomerol last year, but difficult to imagine Lafleur needing or wanting to do that, or even whether it’s outwith the rules. Irrigation perhaps? Frost netting maybe (although frost doesn’t appear to have been an issue in 2025 to my knowledge).

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Interesting news from Bordeaux.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

It was brilliant John Finnemore manages Reductio ad Absurdum better than any other writer ever has I reckon. Clever, witty but warm and human glorious comedy.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A Giro d’Italia in 32 excellently chosen and delicious wines, courtesy of WineWise Benelux. Diploma D3 Italy - done!

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My Bordeaux 2024 Report is published and available to buy and download from Tim Atkin's site. timatkin.com/product/bord... Please help spread the word if you can! #GrandsCrus #Bordeaux #2024 #EnPrimeur 3,218 kms. €384 petrol, €192 motorway tolls, 15 days away from home, 3 weeks. 581 wines.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Yum! Some times old wine just hits the spot. Dusky and still fruity with prune, leather and lots of mild sweet spices. Completely evolved tannins, and fine fruity balsamic-edged acidity. Cooked morello cherries on a long expansive finish.. I Sodi di S. Niccolo Castellare 1994. @CastellareWine

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

You know things are bad when an oil tanker and a ship full of cyanide colliding becomes the good news story.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Very many of them great words though!!

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Still trying to visualise a portable table that can seat 1600 of course…

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Really enjoyed the King Arthur episode which accompanied me on a run along the seafront in Thessaloniki. The obvious chemistry between you, Mary and Mike was super-compelling. Great fun and I learnt a lot. Thanks!

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Excellent to have Loïc Pasquet of Liber Pater come and share his amazing philosophy and his also amazing wines, with us this afternoon in Bordeaux.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I decided to escape and spend the day walking on my own. And a plan came to fruition…

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Not every day you get to share a stage with Jancis Robinson, presenting her with the Lifetime Achievement award for James Halliday. An honour. #WineParis, #InstituteofMastersofWine, #Vinexposium, #TheDrinksBusiness

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Happy birthday! (I think, unless I misheard early morning BBC R4)

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Mixed up vindaloo and rice for the old master. (8-2-5)

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I quite like it that fully a quarter of a “Traditional Danish Lunch” is spirit alcohol.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Onwards! I’m going to Denmark. Yay! 🇩🇰 So, I am wearing my Greenland 🇬🇱 t-shirt. Because Greenland 🇬🇱 is part of Denmark 🇩🇰. So, it is appropriate - in the way that absolutely nothing is appropriate about Donald Trump. Al magt til Danmark! Ned med orange mini-hjerne!

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The last time the cheesy wotsit jellyhead was president (good grief), he took credit for there having been no air crashes. So, by “OrangeMiniBrain-O-Matic” logic, this one’s entirely his fault. Lock him up.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Guess who went off on his own, chasing heavens-knows-what fauna, for an hour, as ‘part’ of his afternoon walk. Dead-beat, thirsty and hungry, but thankfully no evidence of having picked a fight with a bigger boy/boar…

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I might be tempted, but - by the most astonishing coincidence - ninety-two grand a month is *exactly* the amount I don’t have to spend on renting an apartment in Monaco.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

No offence to German hotels, which are lovely (if a shade sauna-y), but I have really missed this…

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Dogs are the best Caoimhe, Lora and Wather.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Too cold for an inauguration. According to people who want to invade Greenland.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I ca’t help thinking that the ‘American people’s judgement when deciding things has very much been called into question recently. Twice.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I went to Greenland 🇬🇱 I didn’t see any ‘for sale’ signs. It’s beautiful and unspoiled. Let’s hope it stays that way.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s a good job the Tories lost so many MPs, because otherwise the bandwagon on which they are all trying to climb would simply collapse under the weight.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social Jess Phillips, an elected official, has done more for women’s and victim’s rights than anyone else I can think of. Elon Musk - an unelected moron - on the the other hand, has aligned himself with a convict who boasts of grabbing women by the pussy.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Patrick Wolf’s masterpiece, Wind in the Wires, remastered and released on what I can only describe as panda-eye coloured vinyl. A treat. (Along with a new EP of rarities, The Effigies) @patrickwolf.music-social.com.ap.brid.gy

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sunday is fun-day with a lovely MW Paper 3 tasting. Some super-smashing wines in this bunch!

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Saturday is red wine day! Although nicely Christmassy, I suspect this might prove a lot more difficult in practice than it seemed on paper...

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Twelve white wines to test the palate and mind. Great fun for a Friday morning!

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Good Bandol is hard to beat. Too young but deliciously fruity, juicy, spicy multilayered and with tingly fresh tannins warmth and lipsmacking acidity.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

An amazing album. Start to finish, every track is brilliant.

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Rod Smith @rodwsmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Here’s what’s black about my Friday.

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