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Andrew Jefford

Are you a wine hedonist? Hedonism is ‘the pursuit of pleasure’; philosophically, it refers to the notion that pleasure is the highest good. We all drink wine for the pleasure it procures us, don’t we? So for the wine drinker, the best wines must be those that procure the most pleasure. That, surely, makes us all wine hedonists – though we may live according to

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