Last March, just after my colleague Tim Atkin MW had been presented with the International Wine Communicator of the Year at a dinner at Vinitaly, I received an irate email from Canadian wine writer and Master Sommelier John Szabo (unrelated to, but a close associate of, Zoltan Szabo who wrote here recently about his first ever trip to Germany). He was furious about some remarks made by Atkin in his acceptance speech which seemed to him to insult all North American wine writers. Intemperate is the word I would use for his description of Atkin. Recently however both Szabo and Atkin found...