Alex Hunt

It's finally here! After five years, we are thrilled to announce our new album Back To Land A lot went into this record (hours, miles, love, grief, alchemy). We hope you enjoy it 🔮 Out now: wherever you get your music! #backtoland #indiefolk #newalbum promocards.byspotify.com/api/share/a395…

Check out our new single This Side of the Border ⌲ from our forthcoming album Back To Land (out 14 November). Stream wherever you get your music! #backtoland #indiefolk #folk #newmusic promocards.byspotify.com/api/share/40e2…

Happy Halloween! Our new single Stem is out now ⌲ wherever you get your music 👻 #umbrellabirds #newmusic #indiefolk #folk promocards.byspotify.com/api/share/10be…

We’re back! Our new album BACK TO LAND is coming on 14 November. The first single Stem will be released next Friday (Halloween) 👻 #umbrellabirds #backtoland #newalbum

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This is such an amazing project to have been part of. Great performances of some beautiful, important repertoire. Hope you enjoy this single - album to follow!!

🎶 Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! An early example of the BOGOF promotional mechanic inspiring FMCG marketing to this very day Hot cross buns! 🎶 Happy Easter everybody ❤️

It’s a little chilly ⁦@RidgeVineyards⁩ today ⛄️🍷

@timatkin @RichardHemming 100%. When/where do you need it Tim?

@RichardHemming @AlexHuntMW How do I get hold of a bottle?

US Twitter friends. I’m helping to organise a South Africa Syrah against the world tasting. Which wines should I track down from the United States? I’m a bit out of touch. Qupé still good? Wind Gap? Legier Meredith? Anything from Washington? Cayuse?

@AnneInVino @Labelsandgrapes @creationwines @SothebysWine @areniglobal @nicolerolet @bosiechampagne @JancisRobinson @mme_hammond @timatkin @GerardBassetFDN 😘

@Labelsandgrapes @creationwines @SothebysWine @areniglobal @nicolerolet @bosiechampagne @JancisRobinson @AlexHuntMW @mme_hammond @timatkin @GerardBassetFDN You were fab!! xxx

So this happened yesterday @SothebysWine in #London! It's been such a pleasure and honour to work and conceive #rethinkingfinewine with so many amazing minds @areniglobal. Thank you!

@rob_hayward I wasn’t planning to, but maybe I should! Interesting vintage for sure

Yup, just tasted me some claret 😋 #bordeaux2019

@AnneInVino @VinousMedia @antoniog OMG what a coup for everyone. Wonderful news!! X

Some news... thrilled to join you @VinousMedia @antoniog

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@JancisRobinson Totally agree. Tasted mainly 2021 whites so far - freshness, vigour, concentration, texture - it’s all there. So an especial shame there is so little to go round, but at least the inevitable price increases are matched by top quality

Am really enjoying the 2021 burgundies I have tasted so far. A very welcome break from sweetness and high alcohols. Though I realise 2021 was a complete pain for vignerons in Burgundy and that quantities are v limited so a complete pain for importers when allocating

Dream vertical @BerkmannWine - 20 vintages of Monte Bello🤩 Thanks to all who attended, John Olney & David Gates for hosting, and of course Paul Draper for his unwavering vision - the canvas onto which these indelible vineyard expressions are painted.Happy 60th @RidgeVineyards !

@joestilgoe Nominating @DayGarner2003 !!

Who wants to write the musical 44 Days with me? #LizTruss #LesLizerables

This week, two more wonderful speakers present ineffably eloquent wines: Anselmo Guerrieri Gonzaga with 8 vintages of @San_Leonardo and Emanuele Baldi with 6x Prunotto Bussia Vigna Colonnello. Thanks to all involved inc team @BerkmannWine

@robertjoseph @timatkin Yes but there’s one P missing - building a brand requires planning, pricing and perspiration, often over years or decades! On the ground, the Bordeaux model is all pull, no push, and that creates rather more losers than winners IMO

@AlexHuntMW @timatkin This Liv-ex report (which I'm sure you've read) is balanced liv-ex.com/la-place-de-bo… "Releasing via La Place helps create global reach and make [producers'] name known [worldwide]. However, brand building...requires careful planning and pricing in line with the market.

If one more producer tells me that their wine is about to be launched on the Place de Bordeaux, I’m going to scream.

@robertjoseph @timatkin Again, by what yardstick? Many top Italians benefited from the lauded vintage pair of 2015/16, irrespective of distribution strategy. And which Italian wine has shot up most in value recently? Sassicaia, which isn’t on the Place. There’s neither correlation nor cause here.

@AlexHuntMW @timatkin But... as Adam says in his piece and Liv-ex has said elsewhere, la Place (of which, I repeat, I've never been a fan) does seem to have worked very well commercially for some wines - particularly top Italians I guess if it doesn't, the brand owners will drop it