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How do we choose a wine?
24th June 2025
The perennial problem for wine lovers is this. How do we choose which wine to buy? Go into just about every restaurant and you will be handed a wine list chock full of options, and usually very little guidance....
Jamie Goode is a London-based winewriter who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express. As well as writing he also lectures and judges wine.

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