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Whine Writing

Wine - what are you tasting?

Found in the latest issue of Language Lounge:

Our British visitor last month left a copy of the Financial Times in the Lounge. We were reading in it the other day and nearly choked on our soy-milk-softened Postum: “Wine writing in English has, over the past decade, become almost violently pragmatic.” First of all, wine writing: you mean it’s a genre? Second of all: violently pragmatic? Don’t bet the chewy backbone in your delicately vegetal Cabernet Sauvignon on it.

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