The Wine Society, owned by its wine-loving members, is famous for value but at last month’s autumn tasting for the media it outdid itself for esoteric stimulation, too. As usual, I asked for the list in advance so that I could decide which wines I wanted to taste. It was with a combination of horror and delight that I marked a total of 98 wines that intrigued me out of the 120 shown.
There was a real buzz at the tasting –...