Privacy

Analytics

Google Analytics counts visits and records which pages are read, which bottles are searched for, and which outbound links are followed. It sets cookies and it is the only reason cookies exist here at all when ads are off. We look at it in aggregate. We have never tried to work out who an individual reader is, and the data would not support it if we did.

Advertising

Google AdSense serves the ads marked Advertisement. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your earlier visits to this site and others, and Google's advertising cookies let it and its partners choose ads that way.

You can turn off personalised ads in Google's Ads Settings, and opt out of other vendors' personalised ads at aboutads.info. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, ads are only personalised if you agree to it.

If you post a note

Posting a tasting note is the one place you hand over something identifying. Signing in with Google gives us an account identifier and the display name you have set; we do not receive your password and we do not ask Google for your contacts, calendar or anything else. We also store a one-way fingerprint of the address the note was sent from, never the address itself. It is there to stop one person flooding the site and for nothing else, and it cannot be turned back into a location. Your note and your display name are public, and each new note is also emailed to us when it is posted, so that somebody at the bar reads it. Ask us and we will delete a note and the record behind it.

Links off this site

Recipes, producers and shops are all somebody else's site, with their own policies. We record that a link was followed and which kind it was. We do not follow you there and we have no idea what you do once you arrive.

Asking us anything

Deletion, corrections, or a question about any of the above: get in touch.

Last updated: 2026-09-21 · How this site works