This year’s Pol Roger Oxbridge Wine Tasting Challenge, held today at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London (yes, very British) was won by a slender margin of just 15 points out of a total available of 1,440 by Oxford. This brought the silver Pol Pot back into the hands of the dark blues after two years of decisive Cambridge wins – although Oxford have more often been triumphant in the competition’s history of well over half a century.
Cambridge’s honour was salvaged by the fact that the single top scorer was Cambridge’s team captain, a biophysicist PhD raised...