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Article: Even the wine experts can have a bad day.
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- Wines & Vines
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- March 1, 1990
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Even the wine experts can have a bad day
Harry Waugh, a director of the English firm that owns a large part of Chateau Latour in Bordeaux, has more claim to be a wine expert than anyone I know. He has been in the wine trade for eons, and, as a consequence, is one of the most humble of experts. He has been tempered in the furnace of reality. Here is one example, Harry and I were on a panel of "experts" at a public tasting of some of the 1970 Bordeaux classified growths that had only recently arrived in this country. We were sitting side by side. The wines were tasted blind. One of the wines was poured, perhaps the third or fourth in the series. It was absolutely ...
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