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Wine writers should do less listing and more campaigning.

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Might I be allowed to suggest that the wine trade and its customers may be better served if many of our illustrious wine writers gave up producing lists of wine and concentrated on some pungent criticism. I know that many of the ladies and gentlem en who write on wine feel there are more than sufficient good ones to write about without bothering about the others - I have long subscribed to that theory. But, frankly, the shelves of our supermarkets and high street multiples are becoming filled with so much cheap dross that far outsells anything remotely decent, it is high-time someone said "stop".

Like him or loathe him (there appears to be no middle way) Jeremy Clarkson is a fearless car critic, and when in September 2004 he declared, and I quote, the BMW 1-series is "crap", did the manufacturer refuse to let him have cars for road testing? No way. How different from the time a few years ago when Oz Clarke suggested that, for ...

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