
Barry Smith on Wine
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The Difference Between a 299 and a 150 Pound Wine
There are very cheap wines around, under two pounds in some places. People are very happy drinking those. I think it's to do with the complexity of experience you can have. They're very well made wines now at very cheap prices where you can get a simple, pleasurable drink. But therefore, it's the effect of the wine you're interested in and perhaps the occasion of sharing rather than the way in which the wine is creating that intoxicating pleasure. If it's interesting enough to engage our attention, it rewards us by what it can show us and by what we can learn from it.
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