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Old Feb 22, 2019, 2:28 pm
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Originally Posted by peter h
Having done a bit of searching, it's not clear how BA's wines are selected. A few places name Andy Sparrow (and he's in a BA YouTube video talking about wine selection), but he works for Bibendum.

There was an overview article from Decanter outlining the scale of airline purchases - https://www.decanter.com/features/ai...t-life-372891/

Google also returned an interesting PDF on the Masters of Wine site (apparently confidential) - almost a tender document for consultants to be part of the process in 2019/20 - https://www.mastersofwine.org/downlo...AE3EBDA3AE49BD - there's also an html version here - https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=uk
nice finds! I’m a bit puzzled by the 9 choices of wines in F which detailed description totals to 8. Do they proof read their tenders?

as for the article, that ‘Taittinger and sugar’ crew hand scrub sounds like the most shocking stuff I’ve read on ft in a long time!!!
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