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It was a couple of years ago. We were having lunch in a pizza restaurant. We were also drinking a bafflingly described, boldly overpriced and completely mediocre red: our normal wine consumption.

‘This is appalling,’ one of us said. ‘Shall we have another bottle?’

The second bottle arrived, and the other one of us asked, ‘Why does nobody write about these wines? Why do they only write about the good stuff? Someone should write a blog about real everyday wine drinking and real everyday wine, like this horrible Valpolicella.’

We thought this was such a good idea that we went ahead and did it. After all, we know more about writing than we do about wine, and we know more about wine than pizza. Which made it the perfect fit: Sediment was born.

The duties were unevenly divided from the start. Paul Keers (PK), a man who sees wine as a gateway to sophistication, connoisseurship and worldliness, a man who broods on social rituals, dinner guests and daunting wine merchants – a man who uses the word etiquette without irony – got the smarter end.

Charles Jennings (CJ), being a cheapskate and extremely credulous, believes, like a French bourgeois, that a casual, everyday enjoyment of wine at casual, absolutely rock-bottom prices, is every man’s birthright. So he got all the rest.

That’s how it is. Every week on the Sediment blog we wander along the pain threshold of wine drinking, never knowing enough, or spending enough, to get things right. It would be easy to say that the pleasure of the wine itself makes up for our tribulations. It would also be untrue. We’ve suffered – really suffered – as a consequence of our motto: ‘I’ve bought it, so I’ll drink it.’

This book is a collection of some of our best, but more often our worst, moments in wine. We hope you enjoy them more than we did.

CJ AND PK, AUGUST 2014