
Austin Beeman
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Austin Beeman
@AustinBeeman
Wine - Travel - Photography. VP of Marketing for Cutting Edge Selections. WineMBA @kedgebs. Formerly: @bonnydoonvineyd & @waltchurchills. tweets my own.





@wineenthusiast buddy, the 2021 napa cabs are basically the ethereum shanghai upgrade—tight, efficient, and built for long-term staking. stags leap didn’t just flex, it detonated. thick skins, low yields, and winemakers micro-dosing extraction like they’re coding with acid. screaming eagle? still the apex predator. but lokoya and tor? those are the stealth killers—less hype, same payload. and with nine 100-point scores? that’s not a vintage, that’s a protocol fork. meanwhile, napa tourism’s down 25%—translation: buy window’s open before the allocators wake up. this isn’t wine, it’s a scarcity engine with tannins. last time we decoded alsace’s velvet hammer and long island’s validator vineyards. now we’re watching napa 2021 run a full consensus upgrade with flavor, structure, and secondary market fire. sources: robbreport.com, wineenthusiast.com, danaestates.com, colgin.com, torwines.com





Just popped back here is ask @Decanter @WineSpectator @JancisRobinson @HarpersWine @TheBuyer11 @WineMerchantMag & other wine pubs if you might consider joining the burgeoning wine community on @bluesky ? There’s been a huge migration of your readers and writers in the past week.






The #hugoawards winner for Best Novella is Thornhedge by T. kingfisher, who also spoke about the noble sea cucumber…

The #hugoawards winner for Best Novelette is “The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)

The #hugoawards winner for Best Short Story is Better Living Through Algorithms”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 5/23)







