M&S to stock Lebanese wines
Marks & Spencer will stock three Lebanese wines for the first time this May.
Adam Lechmere is consultant editor of Club Oenologique among other things.
Formerly launch editor of Decanter.com, which he edited until 2011, he has been writing about wine for 20 years, contributing to Decanter, World of Fine Wine, Meininger’s, the Guardian and many others. Before joining the wine world he worked for the BBC, and as a music and film gossip journalist.
Marks & Spencer will stock three Lebanese wines for the first time this May.
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