Alliance Wine's crafty little tasting

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I so liked the title of this recent London tasting that I have stolen it for this article, though it is partly misleading. It was definitely 'crafty', showing the wines of many of the smaller 'artisan' producers whose wines are imported into the UK by Alliance Wine, founded in 1984 in Scotland, but it was hardly small, so I had to be selective and in the end decided to focus on the names that most appealed as I looked through the list of 176 wines. One particular and enduring attraction for me is indigenous grape varieties and there was no...