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Don’t Drink Your Own Wine?

Are you making a mistake drinking your own wine? Nigel Green of New Zealand’s Felton Road has a visceral piece on “growing up” in wine. Before long I had discovered a remarkable world: one perhaps unique in commerce. In any other profession we would be rivals, but in wine there was a spirit of comradeship, not competition. Everybody would help

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Marcus Ansems on Rethinking Wine Quality

Are we fooling ourselves with wine quality? Marcus Ansems, over at Daydreamer Wines, had a great Instagram post on wine quality. I have high respect for Marcus, for his work and knowledge, as well as the quality wine he’s producing from a difficult site.  Marcus summarizes the traditional view of wine quality:  How typical is it? ie. does a Bordeaux

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