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Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Fire For Bordeaux’s Vignerons

2017 was not a happy time for a huge swathe of Bordeaux grape growers.  An early flowering of the vines due to warmer temperatures at the start of the year was followed by a devastating frost in April, wiping out an entire year’s crop for the unlucky ones. Would fate be cruel enough to have …

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The Best of Burgundy #4: We All Live In Terroir

The more you drink wine or spend time at wine dinners or tastings or what-have-you, you’ll hear this term pop up. Terroir (pronounced tare-wahr). Obviously it’s a french word but it’s now used pretty much across the world to describe the same thing. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is… 

…well it’s everything really. Well let’s …

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