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Farewell Cork'd and other tales
Thursday 13 January 2011
It really is a very small world. Eric LeVine, founder of the world's biggest collection of tasting notes CellarTracker, has been in London. As last year, his wife is attending a technical conference which happens to coincide with Burgundy en primeur week, so Eric comes along and tastes a bit of burgundy. You may remember that I used their visit last year to interview Suzi and to write a big article about Eric and the CellarTracker phenomenon for the FT. In it I quoted Purple pagers Thomas De Waen and François Feuillat.
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