Everyone is talking about coronavirus and its fallout at the moment. Exponential growth is a hard concept to unpick, so I always think of different markers and milestones.

We finally got the new Wine List website live this week. It’s evolved from its prior one-page holding site, into what will become a fully fledged site.

Your Tuesday morning note will continue to be your longer read of affordable tasting notes and bitesize lessons. But I’m also going to introduce a Thursday afternoon sip-sized email email with jargon demystified in it.

Lots of lesser known grapes making a name for themselves.

Last Tuesday, as this email hit your inbox announcing the pre-order of our rosé box: rain swept Britain for the first time in a month. Talk about bad timing.