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Judgment of Paris re-run – my tasting notes

Here are my tasting notes, as taken last night, in the raw. I shall be giving more behind-the-scenes detail from my ringside seat at this surprising event in purple prose. See inside information for an account of the results once all rankings were pooled.

Important note: My scores from this particular tasting should not be taken as absolutes (e g  in normal circumstances I would probably not have given Ch Latour 2000 a score as low as 17 out of 20) but I knew that for the purposes of the tasting, I needed to come up with a ranking, and...