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Longstanding purple pagers may remember some extremely heated exchanges such as this on your turn, the precursor of members’ forum (when I edited every single post – can you believe it?) about the use of oak chips. One of their most ardent proponents was an Italian called Enrico Bagetta who worked for a company called Arobois which, he claimed, sold top quality oak chips to the makers of some top quality wines, rated highly by critics who seemed to have no idea that chips had been used. Mel Knox of San Francisco, who also featured in some of these...