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Clos de Vougeot 2013s compared blind

view of the Shard from Fine and Rare offices near Monument

I have a couple of reservations about London wine brokers Fine + Rare Wines, as they style themselves. Firstly, although they tend to dominate wine-searcher.com’s listings, they hold no stock so are operating on a very different basis from their peers. You typically have to wait a month or two before taking delivery of wine (or whisky nowadays) you order from them. And secondly they saw fit to let Joss Fowler go recently. My view of this is coloured by the fact that I admire Joss as a writer so much that I was thrilled when he agreed to write...