2001 Trimbach Clos Ste. Hune.
The wine of the night for me. Trimbach is one of Alsace’s benchmark estates, family-owned since 1626, and Clos Ste. Hune is its legendary 1.67-hectare monopole within Rosacker, widely regarded as one of the greatest dry Rieslings in the world.
The 2001 vintage in Alsace produced structured, long-lived wines, and this bottle showed exactly why it has such a reputation. Many wines at the dinner had greater concentration, sweetness, or sheer power, but Clos Ste. Hune wasn’t trying to impress that way. Instead, it kept evolving.
Every revisit brought something new: white pepper, flowers, smoke, burned tire, citrus oil, and crushed stone. The aromas seemed to continuously unfold over the course of the evening.
One of the things I love most about mature Riesling is watching youthful slate and citrus transform into smoke, petrol, spice, and tertiary complexity. This bottle captured that evolution beautifully.
At 25 years old, Clos Ste. Hune is fully mature, but far from over the hill. If anything, it feels like a wine still finding new ways to express itself. I suspect it will continue evolving for many years to come.
One of the world’s great dry white wines, and the most compelling bottle on the table.
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Trudno się nie zgodzić z Matthew McConaughey…
In hiding for over a fortnight to swerve any scrutiny over his multitude of illicit donations but finally breaks cover to shit all over the express wishes of Henry Nowak’s family
You can set your watch by Farage’s pisswizardry
A stain on U.K. politics
So despite Henry's dad making it clear that they "do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”, Farage uses his death in an emergency address to create division for his own gain.
An awful politician.
Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.
After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.
It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.
Populism is a low IQ movement.
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In a normal world this kind of ownership of a political party would be illegal. Let’s be clear, Reform UK is a private limited company.
Nigel Farage and Party Chairman Zia Yusuf serve as the directors and guarantors, having taken over from the previous share-based company structure. Yes it’s now a registered CHARITY dedicated to the corruption and dismantling of UK democracy.
Never has there been a better example of Turkeys voting for Christmas in UK politics.
If Farage was to be elected Prime Minister in 2029, the country would literally be being run by a private company. Not even the Americans could achieve that despite their best efforts.
It’s time to wake up and understand that Nigel Farage is NOT a man of the people, he’s a man owned by dark money. Without that dark money Reform could not operate and field candidates at either local or national level.
Paying a membership to the party provides NO voting rights. Reform UK members do not directly dictate party policy; under the party's constitution, policy is set by the party's board and the leader, with input from members at conferences.
Farage holds considerable influence over the governing board, as the party leader is empowered to directly appoint the party chairman and three board members. He is truly Trump’s mini me in every sense.
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