As my departure date for Singapore gets closer, I am getting increasingly busy - which is my feeble excuse for having failed to post on this blog for the entire month of June. There was plenty of action elsewhere, as follows:

• On JancisRobinson.com:

  • 51 tasting notes on wines from the southern hemisphere (subscription required)

  • My Spittoon column considered the secret of food and wine matching (free to read)

  • I waxed lyrical about a little-known red from a Rhône satellite appellation in my wine of the week (free to read)

  • And I wrote a short analysis of the 2019 MW examination questions (free to read)

• My Drinks Retailing News column considered how to find the world’s next great wine

• And my Living France column tackled the world of packaging, bottling and bag-in-box - which is more intriguing than you’d think!