MICHAEL FRIDJHON: A fabulous tasting line-up reveals some absolute corkers
A real treat is the splendid fruit salad of the 2021 Klein Constantia Vin de Constance
An article on Jancis Robinson’s website (jancisrobinson.com) by Tamlyn Currin stripped away much of the glamour associated with a punishing tasting schedule.
“You could say that wine writers have the golden ticket... But anyone who has tasted close to 100 wines in a day ... will disabuse you of this illusion. The focus required to keep tasting wine after wine after wine ... to then score them; to remain ‘objective’ and try to remember all the hundreds of wines that you have tasted before this one so that your score and tasting note make sense within the continuum of the vintage, is a Herculean task. I, for one, felt like my brain was bleeding by the end of it.”..
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