The people who work hard everyday to present a positive image of wine and wine culture like to emphasize wine’s ancient lineage and unbroken continuity. The simple process of harvesting grapes and fermenting them into something flush with gastronomic, mood-enhancing and social lubrication skills has been familiar to, and appreciated by, who-knows-how-many generations of grateful…
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Raising a Glass to Good Enough Wine
Were we to pen a biography of wine, we might start out with a chapter entitled The Early Years – as many bios do. There, we’d tell the story of how the wild wine vine was native to a highly circumscribed region of the globe (what is today Georgia, Armenia, Eastern Turkey and Northern Iran). …