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Behind the Glass – book review
The science behind tasting 'one of the most complex solutions in the world' – wine. Behind the Glass The chemical and sensorial terroir of wine tasting Gus Zhu MW Published...
Tamlyn Currin
Thursday 10 October 2024
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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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Calling all Riesling lovers who will be in or near London on the evening of Monday 12 May. Purple Pagers...
Alex on taste
Today’s Throwback Thursday article is a historic throwback: Alex’s comments, published on Purple Pages yesterday, on a trove of 50-year-old...
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Maggie Rosen writes: What does your sense of smell mean to you? Next time you enjoy a glass of wine...
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The Magnificent Seven may be the name of the 1960 western directed by John Sturges, but in the following article...
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Last Thursday night the most recent batch of Masters of Wine were officially anointed at the annual MW get together...
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It's confession time: I am from the cassette generation, although only just. My best friend in very early childhood was...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes on...
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On Thursday 21 February the 60th Oxford v Cambridge blind tasting match was held in London. I will be writing...
Alex on taste
5 Mar - In the original version of this review, Alex included a brief paragraph criticising the proofreading of this...
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