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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...

Don't quote me The rarity of experiencing utter blackness becomes apparent only once you are immersed in it. Mundanely speaking, it is the...

Free for all If you read my article earlier this year about heroic microbiologists, you will know that I am increasingly fascinated by...

Free for all 10 Mar 2016 Reminded by Alex’s splendid column last week about learning to taste blind, we are republishing this useful...

Alex on taste Every February I permit myself a bit of nostalgia when in the middle of the month the annual varsity blind...

Free for all Joss Fowler (pictured) wrote several revelatory articles for us a few months ago and muses below on the topic of...

Free for all 12 January See the overwhelming results of this poll in Consumers prefer commentators to taste blind . 31 December We...

Free for all 3 December 2015 Since there has been a revival of interest in the concept of minerality on our members' forum...

Don't quote me Australian wine competitions are a notorious proving ground for the wine industry. For producers, they offer the opportunity of winning...

Free for all Fine-wine merchant Joss Fowler comes off the fence on the question of scoring wines. See also his earlier articles on...

Don't quote me In 1983, Howard Garner, psychologist and Harvard professor, presented a new model to explain intelligence, differentiating nine independent kinds of...

Alex on taste The last few weeks have been better than most for wine stories in the British press. First, the Daily Mail...

Don't quote me Everything is relative. Take, for example, scoring 20/20. For eyesight it’s considered merely normal; for wine it is anything but...

Free for all Today's Throwback Thursday offering is one of Alex Hunt MW's bi-monthly columns, first published on 5 December 2013. They are...

Alex on taste Q: When is a triangle not a triangle?A: When it's a woman's thigh.The basis for this riddle comes towards the...

Book reviews Writing about music, it has been said, is like dancing about architecture. The same might be said for writing about...