Dear wine lover

After last week's difficulties with cancelled flights, Nick and I did make it to the wedding on Paxos last Friday. It seemed a very long way from the horrors of London Bridge that were to follow - and indeed from our unpredictable election. The very beautiful ceremony in this olive grove involved an extraordinary amount of organisation, and multiple group emails from the groom. Imagine organising bus pick-ups for 120 from dozens of different villas, none of which has an address. Our flight back on Sunday was incident-free, though the empty row behind us was somewhat poignant.

My organisational skills were focused, as ever, on JancisRobinson.com, where our coverage this week was as rich and varied as usual. We published the first half of our German specialist Michael Schmidt's initial coverage of German 2016s. To be continued...

Richard continued his coverage of Rhône 2015s - indeed this was quite a Rhôney week as I reported on Chapoutier's 2016 Sélections Parcellaires, republished a long article on Châteauneuf 2006s and chose same as today's wine of the week. I also wrote about France's other great river in an enthusiastic report on some mature Chinons.

Last Saturday I gave some tips on how to get the best deals on fine wine in our Brexit-obsessed world and Nick wrote about the recent restaurant revolution in London's financial district.

Max Allen contributed a fascinating report on the extent of Chinese investment in Australian wine. Richard reviewed an interesting new device for wine leftovers and I shared some images of how badly the wine country of southern Chile was hit by the forest fires earlier this year. And Andy Howard, the third Master of Wine to contribute to our site this week, continued his series on major UK retailers with an assessment of the current wine range of M&S. We also continued to publish Chinese translations of old articles.

Yours thoroughly confused about the future of our country,