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The tasting term 'foursquare'
N Wilton, Melbourne:
I often read the comment ‘foursquare’ describing various wines, most often clarets, but I am unsure what that exactly means. Could you please expand on this descriptor?
me:
Well may you ask. I remember reading the wine columns of my esteemed colleague Pamela Vandyke Price in The Times of London when I was just starting out in wine and thinking how amazingly clever she must be to describe a wine as ‘foursquare’. As time went by I started to wonder what on earth the term meant and I’m now none too sure it has much precision at all....
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