A husband's lament

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Nick wrote this cri de coeur about wine packaging last night, when still furious with two French wine producers. 

Last night, a normal part of my marital duty left me in anger and frustration at two wine producers’ obvious disdain for the environment, the amount of rubbish their samples generated and their apparent lack of common sense. 

And this was from two producers who could not be closer to London: one is based in Bordeaux, the other in Champagne. 

Let me start at the beginning. While Jancis was out as the special guest at the tenth anniversary dinner of the...