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Weekly outpourings from a professional wine pourer. Including what wine to buy now (from shops not supermarkets) plus guides on solo wine travel (with a toddler), how-to's, the odd rant and occasional satire.

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  1. Issue · Jul 6, 2026

    Sunday wines, Wine Car Boot and - finally - a website (opens the original)

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    When I started this ‘column’ it was simply meant to be a weekly diary about what I’d been drinking whilst getting up to whatever it is I get up to (no idea either). Mainstream wine stuff remains under the cosh from the editors/advertiser/owners to churn out samey supermarket recs and yet another piece about rosé in the summer or port at Christmas because clicks are king. I thought a window into what a wine pro actually consumes out of choice and on their own dollar might be…. welcome? But it obv

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