Last Saturday night Nick and I had the great pleasure of wining and dining the eight purple pagers who generously bid for a place at our Wine Relief Dinner, as proposed by Thomas de Waen who came along with his wife Letitia. They were the only ones who could have walked to our place. Martin and Su Nettleton came all the way from Yorkshire and treated themselves to a night at the soon-to-be-closedn-and-renovated Savoy Hotel. Victoria and Adrian Bucknall of the independent wine course providers Wine Unearthed came down from their based in Cheshire. Amit Patel came from south...