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Mission Blind Tasting
Blind tasting, part 3 – using your nose
The power of scent, and how to harness it to figure out what’s in your glass. In last week’s MBT, we focused on gathering visual clues. Today we’ll dig into...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 26 February 2026
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Flawless Understanding faults in wine
Jamie Goode
Published by University of California Press
ISBN 9780520276901
$25, £20
This book has...
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Report on our recent workshops on wine faults.
You wouldn't find music lovers or musicians, art collectors or artists, bibliophiles...
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Tam met New Zealander Kirsten Creasy (right) in the Languedoc in May and suggested that she would make an ideal...
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7 July 2016 As part of our Throwback Thursday series we are republishing this article published on Monday as one...
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22 October 2014 Today, in response to the recent thread on our Members' forum about yeasty and mousy flavours in...
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In response to news of the AWRI's recent breakthrough in the management of Brett, notably in sequencing the genome of...
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See Peter Godden's response in More on the battle against Brett. Researchers at the AWRI (Australian Wine Research Institute) in...
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Oxygen and its impact on wine is a hot topic at the moment, fuelling fervent activity around the world to...
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See also Those AWAC wine faults in full.
Along with about 30 others, I spent all of yesterday cloistered in...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. In the 1990s I went to...
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Julia Harding MW, currently hard at work on the viti and vini entries to be published in the 3rd edition...
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I wrote the following article for the dozen or so publications I syndicate a column to every two months. It...
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