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Why does anyone drink wine? We think this is why.
In 'Why Does Anyone Drink Wine?' (The Spectator, 8th June), Rory Sutherland gets some things right for mostly the wrong reasons, and with the wrong intentions. Barring a bit of philosophical padding...
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If wine journalism's pulse is fading, there is at least one digital magazine...
World First: Swivel your iPad around and the magazine suddenly becomes illegible - sorry, turns into Chinese. Smart work. Are wine writers an endangered species? Back in 2009, Jancis Robinson tried to...
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Lessons from history: cheap bottles of wine have always been appallingly bad...
The Spectator, 27 OCTOBER 1978 We've covered the rationale of trading up because of high wine duty on these pages before. In the simplest of terms, with a fixed rate of alcohol duty, a bottle of wine...
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Wine writer lauds "newfangled" Georgian wines in London...in 1959
'Wine of the Week', The SPECTATOR, 13th November 1959 nother nose in the Spectator digital archives, and this time it a 'Wine of the Week' from November 1959. History is a fantastic pursuit because...
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Why We Don't Use Wine Scores
Simply put, they don't beget informed choices. Beyond the wine being good (and to tell you over and over is essentially blowing smoke up the proverbial), at Red Squirrel Wine we would rather suggest...
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Why Does Wine Vary In Price?
The Guardian's Word of Mouth food blog posed the question today, so I penned a quick reply, which you can see below.You could also talk about (as I did in the previous blog post) how influential wine...
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An online sales tax looks like a PR stunt as well as a nutty idea
Some of the country's leading online retailers have sent a letter to the Chancellor today, published in the Times (£), rubbishing the notion of a special online sales tax.Dear Sir,Physical retailers...
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Newspapers tipping Wine Society wines is like recommending a night out at...
The Wine Society is a splendid, venerable wine merchant. It sources a range of wines that is both safe and eclectic, catering well for approximately 120,000 members and shareholders, for those who...
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Wine awards are useful, up to a point (and typically more than points)
We've written a bit before about why at Red Squirrel Wine we don't publicise wine scores (even though many of our wines have garnered exceptional scores from top critics). What we will include,...
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New York, New York!
When you mention wines from New York to someone, their reaction is by and large a mixture of befuddlement and blankness. Naturally, they think you mean the city itself, that vines are somehow...
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