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Tamlyn Currin

Tamlyn Currin

Thursday 8 November 2018

Provence rosé wine writing

8 November 2018 Today's Throwback Thursday offering is the first of Tam's end-of-year book reviews, first published on Purple Pages last month.

22 October 2018 Responding to your requests to publish book reviews before the end of the year, we begin Tam's series of assessments of this year's crop of wine books.

Rosé
Understanding the Pink Wine Revolution
Elizabeth Gabay MW
Published by Infinite Ideas
ISBN 9781908984135
£30

This is no pocketbook on pinks. Elizabeth Gabay has been working in the wine trade for over 30 years, she became a Master of Wine in 1998, and moved to France in...

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