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Twenty Minutes - The Albertopolis Wine KingR3, 7.50pm FROM the basement of London's Royal Albert Hall, Christopher Cook tells the story of a 19thcentury maverick, while sampling a few tipples from the wine club. The programme describes how the world's finest wines flooded in for an industrial exhibition at Kensington Gardens in 1874. Cook explores how the cellars of the Royal Albert Hall ended up with various vintages over the years.
Listeners are told how Major-General Henry Young Darracott Scott, chief engineer for the completion of the Hall, had a brain wave to set up a cooperative wine society to polish off any unconsumed tipples. Cook gets the chance to sample different wines with the help of Scott's successors at the society.See the full content of this document
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