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So you want to be a sommelier…

So you want to be a sommelier…

Posted by Nathalie Gardiner on January 6 2020 at 05:56

On the floor the lights are low, the customers are munching away on their Dover soles and their duck breasts, the musak is playing gently in the background.

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