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Sommelier exams are tomorrow so unfortunately there will be no wine presented this week, sometimes you have to keep your head clear and I think that most of you will agree

The historical value (or lack thereof) of wine

For a recent column in Decanter Jane Anson interviewed Michel-Jack Chasseuil, one of the greatest wine collectors in the world. I had come across his name before, namely while browsing

An impression of RAW 2015

The currently most divisive topic in the wineworld is without a doubt the natural wine movement. You are either for it or against it, and middle ground is seemingly non-existent.

The pitfalls of buying wine

The first thing you learn as a winelover is that budgeting is a flexible concept. It’s not exactly easy to just say no to a delicious discovery or something that

Wine for the ages

There are dozens of misunderstandings amongst the general public when it comes to wine. It is too expensive, it all tastes the same, I don’t know anything about it so

The Palate Disclosure

Right, I know what a lot of you are thinking, will he ever stop going on and on about tasting notes? Fear not, from next week on we will focus on

An opinion on tasting notes (3)

Now we get to the difficult part, how do you actually come up with a tasting note? Sommelier courses nearly always start explaining students how to taste using a structured approach

An opinion on tasting notes (2)

What makes someone a good taster? Is it the ability to identify 1001 aromas with a quick sniff of wine? Is it the ability to correctly identify a wine blind? Or does

An opinion on tasting notes (1)

One of the most boring things to read in an article on wine is the list of tasting notes. This may seem contradictory as the essence of a wine is

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