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This bottle poses three questions. Glasses drained, the questions remain, flexing themselves like expiring fish — though partly answered, and…

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The anti-alcohol lobby hasn’t won yet, thank God. We still drink wine in France — not as much as we…

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It was a short stroll across the village to meet with Heidi Schröck and taste her new vintage. Heidi makes…

Reviewed by Stuart Walton The only radical intoxicant still permitted to the mass of humanity, other than where religious interdiction…

The word “terroir” comes from soil, and I have always assumed that the dominant influence on terroir (insofar as influences…