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1 September For today's Throwback Thursday we are publishing free Alex's bi-monthly column for members that was published yesterday. 31 August ‘The normally phlegmatic British were roused to a state...

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Alex on taste Happy New Year, Purple Pagers! I hope you have drunk well this Christmas and are now giving your livers a...
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Alex on taste It includes blind tasting. I rarely feel more typically English than on my annual buying trip to Burgundy. It isn’t...
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Alex on taste What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object? British wine drinkers may be about to find out. The...
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Alex on taste In the last half-century or so, technology has developed so rapidly, it's easy to lose perspective. Luckily there is a...
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Alex on taste I'm just back from an awesome holiday in California. I mean 'awesome' strictly in the modern sense, of course; in...
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Alex on taste Every now and then, if I get a bit of free time at the weekend, I suffer a perverse urge...
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Alex on taste Imagine: it's speed-dating night for wine geeks. 'So, are you five, 20 or 100?' A nice gambit – or is...
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Alex on taste Many congratulations to Alex, our London-based monthly columnist whose despatches alternate with those of Alder Yarrow of San Francisco, for...
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Alex on taste Perhaps it's a British thing. We are wary of over-enthusiasm, and condescending towards excessive praise. At least, that's the stereotype...
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Alex on taste 'You are about to enter the courtroom of Judge Judith Sheindlin.' Oh bliss! 'The people are real ... the cases...
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Alex on taste All wine merchants need a few sobering moments in their lives. My most recent came when accidentally watching Celebrity Great...
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