Flint Wines
Thursday 9 December 2010
Since the prime season for entertaining will be upon us before we know it, we are publishing a flurry of tasting notes on wines presented by recommended mail-order merchants. We hope we have allowed enough time for you to lay in supplies before Christmas.
Flint Wines is a relatively new south London wine importer started by Jason Haynes, who used to work for OW Loeb, and now employs award-winning sommelier Gearoid Devaney last heard of working for Sarment. Like many smaller wine importers, Flint is clearly keen to build up its sales to restaurants as well as to private...
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