Journos get a taste of fine wine.

Backchat went continental this week embarking on a wine tasting jaunt to the home of wine, France. RSA took the trade press to Paris and began proceedings with a meal in the Eiffel Tower.

This was surely a case of lining the stomach as a drinking session in a Parisian wine cellar followed.

Taught how to drink like a professional, the group soon turned into Oz and Jilly wannabes proclaiming floral aromas rising from the glass.

On returning to London there were a few sore heads and not just from the low cellar doorways.

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