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Despite the insistence by my overpaid, non-journalist friends that they surely are ‘drinking holidays’, wine press trips can prove to be compact, intricate endurance tests. Yes, I can hear you all now as you go to your store rooms to locate the world’s smallest flight case, carefully extracting from it the world’s smallest violin to…
We’ll be raiding the racks to bring you the finest wines known to humanity. Or at least to Master Sommelier, Christopher Delalonde. Like everyone for a taste of the finer things in life, we at LUSSO like to think of ourselves as having refined and elevated senses. Whether the feel of a scarf made from…
‘I don’t know much about wine, but I know what I like.’ Here’s an opposing theory. No, you sodding don’t. Or as they say in Hull: “ooo I doo layk a glass of drey waat whane, it’s terribly civilyzzzed”. Music to the ears of any vendor of wine in establishments from a white tablecloth restaurant, to a…