The disarming thing about Jason Yapp is that he’s always on such good form. I can’t remember meeting anyone who loves his job so much and who brims with quite so much bonhomie.
We tasted the wines for this offer a few days before he headed to Vinisud, the vast Languedoc-Roussillon wine fair held each year in Montpellier, and he was as excited and as waggy-tailed as a truffle hound on the trail of its first headily scented tuber of the day.

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