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Kingsley Amis said that the three most depressing words in the English language were “Red or White?”. “Fine Wine” is surely a candidate for the two most inefficient. Their meaning is diversely interpreted, and their use frequent but little defined. My heart was captured and my career path changed, fifteen years ago, by a red Burgundy that I, and many others, would consider to be a Fine Wine. It was the first Fine Wine I’d had, and such was its call that I chucked in my job and joined the wine trade. I suppose it must have been expensive (I wasn’t paying), but one thing I have learned since then is that a high price does not a Fine Wine make. (Indeed, as Jamie Goode’s spirited post on Icon Wines explains , it is all too easy to obliterate subtle qualities of an interesting wine by throwing money at it.) Fine wines are never cheap, as such. Some may as well be cellared on the moon, for all the average wine lover can afford to drink them. But many wines in which I find fine qualities ca