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Spin doctors
In last week’s editorial leader (‘Chile, spin and reverse swing’, Harpers, 26 August), who’s doing the spinning here? I agree with David Williams’s editorial that Chilean wines have taken great strides recently. But when he questions my judgment for writing two years ago that I was more often than not stifling a yawn with Chilean wines, I think he might have pointed out that he had asked me to be the witness for the prosecution in a debate with Steve Daniel on the question ‘Is Chile boring?’ David’s instructions were: ‘In your piece, I’d like you to say what’s boring about Chilean wine. Why do you think the Chilean wine industry is churning out so many boring wines? Steve will be saying how wonderful Chile is, so we’ll be looking to you to balance that out.’ Anthony Rose, via e-mail ...
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