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The millennium wine blip

IT IS not so long ago that wine drinking was regarded with suspicion in this country. Wine was a continental thing, and for many of us, a special occasion was toasted with a puzzled shlurp of Mateus Ros, or a bracing gulp of Blue Nun. In some corners of Scotland, wine drinking was, until recently, regarded as utterly eccentric and certainly a sign of weakness.

Such attitudes were washed away by the availability of foreign travel. These days, even the most proletarian characters on EastEnders can be seen supping New World Chardonnay with their jellied eels.

In most months, the news that wine consumption had grown by 9 per ...

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