4 Jan – If last weekend's Journal is truly indicative, the answer to the question posed by the title of this article would appear to be: 'prevail upon veteran staffers. See The Wine Auction Market Bounces Back by Raymond Sokolov.
Twitter sceptics – see this thread on our forum – may like to know that this news was predicted in a tweet by American wine writer Alice Feiring over two weeks ago – JR
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