Digital burgundy – and the ideal spittoon

There is bad news on the Burgundy 2008 front, and not just that I am starting to taste wines lower down the ranks where the acidity really does seem too obtrusive. (My tastings in Burgundy in November were exclusively at top domaines.)

Until very recently I was one of very few London-based wine writers who regularly took their tasting notes straight on to a laptop (as you can see, for example, at this tasting). This meant that many tasting organisers were used to my need for a space, often a little box to prevent backache, occasionally a power source...