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Blind tasting – book review

Wednesday 23 April 2014
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Writing about music, it has been said, is like dancing about architecture. The same might be said for writing about wine tasting. Words are a poor substitute for the electric reactions of your senses when experiencing taste for yourself.

I’m well aware that this book review demonstrates writing about writing about wine tasting, and I am therefore in severe danger of disappearing up my own nasal cavity – but read on, for The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting is a book worth knowing about.

As a primer for learning about wine, it joins an already overloaded bookshelf of...

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