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• Wine kampf

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (04-08-2008)

  They say that dog owners have an alarming tendency to resemble their pets. I have observed a not unrelated phenomenon in our noble trade, whereby critics are subconsciously describing themselves, or their private lives, in their wine reviews. This first came to my attention when I read Steven..

• Wine kampf Times, I need hardly tell you, are hard. Winemakers were the first to feel the squeeze. Plywood chips instead of oak; a surreptitious bottle of Ribena in the vat when ripe grapes were not affordable; migrant workers being paid with tank sa

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-07-2008)

  Norrington..

• Wine kampf

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-06-2008)

  City University North Trent has invited me to conduct a series of evening classes and Wine & Spirit subscribers qualify for a 3.14 per cent saving - yes, free pi for every reader! Which wine, which symphony? The class examines the tonal expression and harmonies of the bohemian composer..

• Wine kampf

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-05-2008)

  To the 150th anniversary luncheon of Bassterd Wickes & Cromerty, where the great and the good were assembled to celebrate a century and a half's history of one of our most distinguished wine importers. More accurately, it was the 150th anniversary of Peregrine Cromerty's association with..

• Wine kampf

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-09-2007)

  My life in wine is well documented. There is little I want to add to what has been written in the annals of the trade, though it would be nice to remove some of the more disgraceful graffiti in the men's toilets at Vintners' Hall. When I shuffle off this mortal coil I shall leave behind work..

• Wine kampf – a wine workforce

  Author: Rt Hon Norrington Blitt

  (23-07-2007)

  Naturally I turned down a Cabinet position - where would one find the time?

• Wine kampf – cold cassoulet in captivity

  Author: Norrington Blitt

  (01-07-2007)

  Norrington pens his despatch from the Languedoc after being captured by terroir-ists.

• Wine kampf – Norrington 2.0

  Author: Wine Kampf

  (01-06-2007)

  Norrington goes underground at the LIWSF.

• Wine kampf – a plague of frogs for the sheilas

  Author: Norrington Blitt GCH

  (01-05-2007)

  My Australian contacts are uncharacteristically downcast just now.

• Wine kampf – trouble at the auction house

  Author: Norrington Blitt

  (01-04-2007)

  The auctioneers are suddenly very sniffy about my collection of 2ème cru..