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How do you do a diary that's supposed to be about wine when all you do is write? Columnists seem to manage it. There must be a knack.

I sit in the attic when overwhelmed by deadlines. No time to waste driving to the office.

I need help. Really. Somebody suggested this during the 'finishing up the bottles' aftermath of the last tasting: they said it was now the thing to ask your readers to help. Apparently web-readers do. Generous spirited people.

So... anyone... want to write any of the stuff that's keeping me in the attic when it's so sunny outside?

Basically, we need a lot of new words for the website. But which words? If anyone cares to tell me how they feel the website could be more use to them, that'd be a start. How to navigate from one wine you like, to others similar was something that got mentioned at the tasting.

Here's an idea. Suppose you like Sauvignon Blanc wines. Fine; there's a lot of Sauvignon Blancs on the list. But similar... though not actually Sauvignon? Plenty of those too. Wines with a similar big, tangy, sharp, green aroma of things like blackberry leaf, nettle leaf, may blossom, elderflower? Well, not exactly the same aromas. But there are wines that have that same piercing, wake-up, edgy aroma and taste. There are wines which like Sauvignon are best drunk as young as possible so as to have maximum flavour.

We could cite you a whole list of Sauvignon-esque wines. Would you like that? Or how about a 'Sauvignon and Friends' special mix where you get 6 bottles of Laithwaite Sauvignon (your favourite) and 6 mixed Sauvignon-like other wines to try? Satisfaction guaranteed.

Could then do the same for those who have more sensitive taste-buds... for whom Sauvignon is usually just "too much"; we could do 'Pinot Grigio and friends'?

Let’s see if it’s true that readers of the web do like to help.
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