Mateusz Papiernik

PSA: This is my primary Bluesky account. Thus, expect an eclectic mix of content on wine & software engineering — two of my main areas of interest — sprinkled with classical music, running, travels and general mumbling. Welcome!

Grabenwerkstatt is Wachau like no other. Franz and Michael are making electric, laser-sharp Grüners and Rieslings in the harsh Spitzer Graben out of old vines. Hands-off, tense, speaking of their origin, utterly thrilling.

8 sparklings, 4 countries. Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK. This likely was one of the first if not the first tasting of these wines in Poland. Thanks to SPOT. for hosting the event! I'm looking forward to exploring this topic with the Polish audience more. There's more to tell.

I'm thrilled to soon present two masterclasses on cool climate sparklings, exploring wines from Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK and — of course! — the Polish ones. Quite likely for the first time in Poland. And quite likely not the last. The first bottles are here already, more to come!

Riesling and Grüner Veltliner from Austria’s most exalted white-wine region. Pictured Grüner Veltliner in the Kollmütz vineyard in Wösendor (© Pamela Schmatz). https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/austrias-single-vineyard-summit-2025-wachau #jancisrobinson #winesoftheworld #winesofaustria

Reds were outnumbered 5 to 1 at the Grafenegg tastings but more than held their own. Pictured, the Alter Garten parcel in Eisenberg’s Szapary vineyard, courtesy of Thom Wachter. https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/austrias-single-vineyard-summit-2025-reds #jancisrobinson

A captivating listen - as always if it's Jancis who's speaking to the mic. Quoting after @teamdb.bsky.social, Richard Hemming MW describes it as “the definitive story of Jancis’s life so far”, a chronicle not only of her professional ascent but also of the people and passions that made it possible.

The promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them) My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor

I have finally gotten myself a @decanter.com subscription. Should've done this sooner.

Amazing (as well as otherworldly) to see the Polish wines 🇵🇱 of Kamil Barczentewicz now sold by the UK’s matchless @thewinesociety.bsky.social & garnering great reviews. #thenextbigthing

Polish tech chaps, have you all gone back to X for good? It's awfully quiet in here and X is buzzing. Why?

My playing cannot be too bad if that's what Pixel thinks when I'm practicing. 😅

In an unprecedented move, the Académie Internationale du Vin (AIV) is speaking out publicly against the threat of what it calls the “denormalisation” of wine initiated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in an open letter to the heads of government of all United Nations member states.

I thought I had passed all the exams so how am I just hearing about the Monster of Wine qualification?

A bottle of Blanc de Noirs intrigued me at a Grafenegg masterclass of Austria Sekt 🇦🇹 so I called the producer, Christian Madl to ask if I could visit him.

We ordered a bottle of Champagne. The staff flocked to our table to witness - "noone ever buys it", they said. "I never opened one, can I do it?", another waiter seconded. Little stories like this can make a place memorable, even if for the strangest of reasons. It was a lovely evening.

What's next in AI infrastructure? Your bill.

We've whittled the 309 entries to our 2025 wine writing competition down to a shortlist of the top 25. Readers have until midnight UK time on Monday 15 September to vote for their favourite shortlisted entry. https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/our-2025-wine-writing-competition-shortlist

I might grow older, but my excitement about wax capsules certainly doesn't grow with me.

It’s officially here! @ladybug.dev is back! 🐞 Buckle in for the next 10 weeks as @emmabostian.bsky.social and I cover tons of important topics on engineering management. Welcome to Season 7! www.ladybug.dev/episodes/a-b...

Achieving the Weinakademiker title and the WSET Diploma encouraged me to make a personal website about my wine stuff and collate everything under a single brand for the future. I also finally have some space to post my English writings that never fit anywhere before. I invite you to mati/wine ☺️

Farewell "blue and grey boxes" ... the new example diagrams are now live on the C4 model website -> c4model.com

Hot take: Manzanillas and Finos should be sold in small format cans.

The Court of Master Sommeliers has released the names of nine new Master Sommeliers (MS), including the first female MS from Poland, as well inaugural ones from Cyprus, Sweden and Spain.

A group of four Polish wineries (Turnau, Jassa, Julo and Vogard) has just announced submitting the paperwork toward establishing the first Polish PGI for wines of the Lower Oder Valley (Dolina Dolnej Odry). This has been on the grapevine for a while now, but apparently is now in the motion.

Every summer reminds me of how perfect a chilled glass of manzanilla or a fino is for hot weather.

Once upon a time, a group of winemakers in Chile decided to create their own appellation of sorts. It changed Chilean wine forever. A look back at the pioneering work of VIGNO, and the current crop of world-class Carignans they are making: www.vinography.com/2... #winethreads

Gen Z not shunning alcohol as much as thought, says survey www.decanter.com/wine-news/ge...

Squid Game 3 finale is much better than the KFC's branded wings buckets. And those buckets were surprisingly good.

This is pure genius in its simplicity. Never thought of using a lock screen for that!

"Meininger Verlag will be discontinuing the online and newsletter format MEININGER’S INTERNATIONAL." Wow, that's a bummer.

It's 2025 and I'm back to a dilemma I had in 2022. Why neither AMD nor Intel comes even remotely close to Apple's M series with the battery life to power ratio. I DON'T WANT A MAC. But I can no longer stand the mediocrity ThinkPads have become ☹️ Will that ever change?...

With that, I've just uninstalled Duolingo. The balance between learning and being held hostage by gamification goals no longer checks out.

En route for grading. 4997 words, 32 pages, and almost 16 hours of interviews with winemakers, sommeliers, shop owners, and journalists over the past few months. It's been spinning my wheels for a while over the past few months, but it was really satisfying to pull this off. Now let's wait and see.

Went from "oh no, I will never write so many words" into "oh no, I don't know what to cut anymore" in an instant. The circle of life of research paper writing. Every. Time.

That's all, folks. Last bit done. Results in August. For the time being, I'll remain Schrodinger's DipWSET.

Last week we had the pleasure of celebrating this years WSET students 🧑‍🎓 Every year we proudly sponsor three of the students, where we recognise their dedication to studying - this year Rebecca Miles-Steiner, Philip McDaniel and Sihun Oh are our winners 🍷🎉⁠

Chuffed to be awarded the Peter Hampson Memorial prize for the D1 (Wine Production) @wsetglobal.bsky.social Diploma module performance in EMEA: a bursary to study a wine producing region. Good kick of motivation before upcoming D3 exams! 😀

OSes not informing about the estimated time to install updates before user agrees to start is such a huge UX fail. 30 minutes and counting, and I'm stuck with work to do. Should've known better not to start...

Boston Marathon on a bank holiday. Lucky!

28 days to go until the D3 exam. Just a moment ago it felt very distant, now it's close to "panic mode". And I thought I'm immune to this kind of pressure.

Breaking news: Trump announces 0% tariff for anyone importing 2024 Bordeaux vintage using solely vintage American military vehicles. The Bordelais are quick to respond. #americana #jeep #militaryvehicles #bdx24 #bdx2024 #bordeaux #primeurs #wine

It’s my 25th Vinitaly 🇮🇹 Yes it’s overcrowded, frantic, expensive and at times, preposterous. But boy do I absolutely love it. It’s so quintessentially Italian, bursting at the seams with spontaneous joie de vivre, honest hedonism, and human warmth. When I die, I want my ashes scattered here.

It never stops to amaze me how proper high-speed trains make travel so seamless and desirable. I for sure know I would travel so much more if such level of service was more widely available.

16% ABV Barbera d'Asti boggled my mind today. Masterfully made no doubt, but not easy to have more than a small glass.

I've eaten many great steaks in my life, but boy, Fiorentina is really something else. Wow. Went down really well with a bottle of Villa Rosa Ribaldoni Chianti Classico 2020.

Is it only me, or is the Vinitaly mobile app a total, unusable mess? Oh boy...

Oh my luck. Out of all bottles that could've been smashed, the one violently lost in transport...? The M. Anto. de la Riva El Notario 2019. One that @bonkowskimw.bsky.social called "the DRC of Jerez". 😭 Sad panda. 🐼

The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

💣 Boom here comes the big news! I made the #ArchitectureWeekly a fully free newsletter. Yes, all the past articles and videos are free. Why did I do it? www.architecture-weekly.com/p/whole-arch... I believe that all of that gives you more content than a lot of books or paid online courses. 1/

First post on Bluesky from The Drinks Business. Let’s give them some encouragement to spend more time here…