Less wine and more vinegar has been sampled this week as I’ve been sipping samples of hot home-made chutney straight from the boiling pan. After picking several tonnes, (well it seemed like it) of wil ...									
								
								
									
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										If being a wine writer is all about ‘tasting vast quantities of wine’, why isn’t everyone doing it? Because as wine writer Geoff Adams explains in his chapter on Wine Journalism (Specialist Journalism ...									
								
								
									
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										This is a tale of two supermarket French Malbecs: one costs £4.49 and is Aldi’s Vignobles Roussellet Vin de France, and the other – SPAR’s M Malbec Pays D’Oc IGP – costs £6.50. ...									
								
								
									
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										Traditional picked on St. George’s Day, the flower petals of the dandelion can be brewed into a country wine. It turns out that its leaves can also be eaten as a salad leaf and its horrendously  ...									
								
								
									
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