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You will see that this brand new site design has all sorts of new features, some of which work beautifully, some of which (access to certain areas, especially our wonderful new World Atlas of Wine maps ) need a bit more fine tuning for some purple pagers.
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Today is the day that a score or two of very hardworking wine students around the globe have been chewing their nails and checking their mail anxiously for it's the day that the Institute of Masters of Wine announce the results of their exams held in the UK, Australia and the US last May.
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...into the unknown.We hope very much that you like our brand new design. It will not surprise anyone who has been involved in website redesigns themselves that it has taken almost exactly a year, and an enormous amount of effort on the part of many, many individuals, not least Yuriy Letser in the. More...
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Latest tasting articles
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Although I have not yet been to Brazil, I did taste a small selection of wines earlier this year in the UK. The choice of wines was made by Arthur Azevedo, President of the Brazilian Sommeliers’ Association, though some wineries did not get round to sending their wines.
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The bulk of these 70+ left bank Bordeaux 1996 were tasted blind at the Sep 8 tasting on which my overview can be found in free for all, although a dozen of them were either re-tasted or tasted for the first time, again blind, at a subsequent small tasting on 26 Sept built around the. More...
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Forum (latest posts)
Lack of hygiene? Beaucastel? I don't think so.
Having said that, I have experienced a number of very brett-y wines from this producer over the years, most notably the 90 Chateau de Beaucastel, which some tasters absolutely love and others, well, let's just say, I gave my bottles away to a friend. More...
I too am having some difficulties with the new forum - and I have been an infrequent user of Squires BB for several years.
My main concern with the new site is the RSS feed. Now I realise with the old site that the RSS on the Member's Forum never worked properly, but I DID rely on the main site. More...
I tried to use all three browser (logging in and out every time duh) ... IE Firefox and Safari but there is no difference; on my computer I cannot see the change name menu on the user CP .... I am still a number... but besides that the new site is great. I can even send private messages to. More...