Article: Drink: Plenty of taste but no vision RICHARD EHRLICH ON DRINK

I hate blind tasting before an audience. Not for any righteous theoretical reason but simply because I'm no good at it. Blind tasting is for people like Oz Clarke, who once was given a glass containing Hermitage La Chapelle in a mixture of two vintages: 1982 and 1983. Clarke said he thought it was La Chapelle - but couldn't decide whether it was the '82 or the '83.

I don't possess the vast experience, or the acute "taste memory" that's needed for blind tasting. When asked to take part, I usually run and hide.

But if the tasting is in a good cause, even public humiliation doesn't faze me. And such an occasion recently presented itself. Sponsored jointly by Bibendum and Harper's, the wine ...

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