Roll-up, roll-up, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the wonderful and frightening world of Olly Smith – the world's most entertaining wine writer.
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(04-08-2008)
Right on chew, a niff in the air rebirths a..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-04-2008)
In 1982, Disney created a visionary movie called Tron. Jeff Bridges is sucked into a computer world where he battles the virtual forces of corrupt corporate greed. I was eight when I watched this with my granny at the ABC in Bournemouth and it blew my mind. Granny fell asleep. I have been..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-03-2008)
Return of the Jedi has a great moment when the rebel fleet is swarmed over by a mighty throng of small Imperial TIE Fighters. It's a bit like watching an army of enraged prawns converging on the face of a scuba diver. I've never been attacked by a sommelier, but I have mates who begin to..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-11-2007)
It's not helpful to be scared witless by planes if you're a fan of vineyards. I was never afraid of flying until I sat next to Nick Ostler on a plane to Spain. Nick's fear of flying is hurricane strength and while he manfully continued jabbing his broken pencil into his book of word puzzles to..
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Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk
(01-10-2007)
Cava: it's a gas (that's hip,..
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Author: Olly Smith
(01-09-2007)
I'm browsing Facebook and listening to Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger. It's frightening how connected we all are.
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Author: Olly Smith
(23-07-2007)
One of my greatest fears is to be trapped in suspended animation, unable to communicate with the world around me.
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Author: Olly Smith
(01-07-2007)
The wonderful and frightening world of Olly..
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Author: Olly Smith
(01-06-2007)
The wonderful and frightening world of Olly..
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Author: Olly Smith
(01-05-2007)
What do wine matching for Michel Roux, the research of Dr Roger Corder, blind-tasting butter with Jean-Cristophe Novelli and facing a hungry South African catfish have in common? They are all terrifying.
I was plugged into a symphonic bottle of Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards Theta 2003 (100 per cent..