Tonight Channel 4, one of Britain’s four major tv channels, is devoting its top documentary slot to wine (Dispatches at 8pm). I am in the difficult position of having been interviewed for it, but having no clue how my words, and which of them, have been used.
To judge from today’s sensationalist article in the Daily Bigot (aka Daily Mail), the thrust of the programme is that all wine consumers are being conned. Supermarkets are full of wines made from substandard grapes that are turned into wine only thanks to a succession of...
