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Our resident Master of Wine and Oxford Companion to Wine editor Julia Harding unravels some of wine’s greatest mysteries and sets out the rules.
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Last year I wrote about another aspect of wine language: false friends and confusing terms. Today it’s the turn of those vague or meaningless phrases that litter back labels and...
The newest EU regulations on ingredient and nutrition labelling provide quick access to a wealth of important and useful information. Will those outside Europe follow? Above, Riesling from Keller’s Shubertslay...
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