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WSET Diaries – Part 6: A Sound Like A Contented Lady

8 April 2011
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Read Part 5 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Sparkling wine, sweet wine, Sherry and Port; also known as ‘other’, if not ‘misc’. I was surprised, but not especially bothered, that rosé wines don’t seem to have featured at all in our tastings yet, but that’s fine – I know what they taste like, and about once a [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 3: Facing One’s Prejudices

18 March 2011
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Read Part 2 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Well, I went into week three of my WSET Intermediate wine course thinking Spain makes great, affordable reds and passable whites; Portugal makes port and not much else; and Italy makes a load of old rubbish that tastes like watery tar and invariably costs too much. (The only [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 1: Fun is Over – This is Serious

1 March 2011
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Read the introductory Part 0 on my blog, Coin du Vin, here. It’s on! My slow and painful ascendancy to the top of the international wine industry has finally begun in earnest with Week 1 of my WSET Intermediate certificate evening class in a classified location in an indoor bowling centre somewhere in the South [...]

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