GILES COREN
We need Wine Woman — I’d drink to that
Bores and bad-breathed blowhards, all of them men, have turned a pleasant drink into a dull but monstrous scam
The Times
I would not normally raise the subject of wine before breakfast (or just after tea if you read this online on Friday afternoon), but two important stories in the papers this week mean that I have no choice.
In The Times, the big news was that “women are taking over the world of wine”. Sotheby’s has “seen a surge in the number of women bidding at fine wine auctions”, while Berry Bros says the number of women joining its wine collector “cellar plan” is growing faster than the number of men. Women are taking over as sommeliers, buyers and pundits all across the country — it’s a revolution! Meanwhile, in the Daily Mail we learnt that Sir Keir Starmer has a secret plan to
