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Hemming's spittoon
After excoriating scoring here several months ago, let the spittoon of scorn now pour forth on its tasting-note bedfellow, the...
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The rarity of experiencing utter blackness becomes apparent only once you are immersed in it. Mundanely speaking, it is the...
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If you read my article earlier this year about heroic microbiologists, you will know that I am increasingly fascinated by...
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10 Mar 2016 Reminded by Alex’s splendid column last week about learning to taste blind, we are republishing this useful...
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Every February I permit myself a bit of nostalgia when in the middle of the month the annual varsity blind...
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Joss Fowler (pictured) wrote several revelatory articles for us a few months ago and muses below on the topic of...
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12 January See the overwhelming results of this poll in Consumers prefer commentators to taste blind . 31 December We...
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3 December 2015 Since there has been a revival of interest in the concept of minerality on our members' forum...
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Australian wine competitions are a notorious proving ground for the wine industry. For producers, they offer the opportunity of winning...
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Fine-wine merchant Joss Fowler comes off the fence on the question of scoring wines. See also his earlier articles on...
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In 1983, Howard Garner, psychologist and Harvard professor, presented a new model to explain intelligence, differentiating nine independent kinds of...
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The last few weeks have been better than most for wine stories in the British press. First, the Daily Mail...
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Everything is relative. Take, for example, scoring 20/20. For eyesight it’s considered merely normal; for wine it is anything but...
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Today's Throwback Thursday offering is one of Alex Hunt MW's bi-monthly columns, first published on 5 December 2013. They are...
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Q: When is a triangle not a triangle?A: When it's a woman's thigh.The basis for this riddle comes towards the...
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Writing about music, it has been said, is like dancing about architecture. The same might be said for writing about...
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