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Britain's best-selling newspaper gets a wine column
11 Mar 2005 by JR
Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper is famous for a lot of things - the infamous and well-endowed page 3 girls and headlines such as "Freddie Starr ate my hamster", for example - but not, up to now, for anything to do with wine. But now, the 2.5 million daily buyers of this red top tabloid, by far the best-selling paper in the UK, are to be treated to a wine column every Friday written by Brian Moore, ex England rugby player and BBC sports commentator. I think this is great news - proof positive that wine has entered the mainstream of British culture. We have had wine drunk without any comment for years on tv soap operas but the...

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