
Barry Smith on Wine
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What We Can't Get Out of Orange Juice?
Wine appreciation is symptomatic of a certain social class. Some people are quite happy to pay 40 or 50 pounds to watch their team play on a Saturday football team and quite right too, in many cases if the team's good. But they would bulk it paying more than five or six pounds for a bottle of wine. I could develop a kind of parallel interest in orange juice, well that's a jaffa, that's been used in this orange juice's degree of acidity, different textures and so on. What's special about wine that couldn't be applied to ice cream or any range of things? We're tasting something which was made by men and women who have long since
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