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Vino Nobile: The Talk of Montepulciano

Roger Morris
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6 min read
It is a Saturday evening in late summer in Montepulciano, the Tuscan hill town that is the namesake of Vino Nobile, which, alongside Chianti and Brunello, makes up the holy trinity of Tuscan Sangiovese wines. I arrived here yesterday with a couple of other American food and wine writers. Along

How to get on this MW’s wine list

Becky Sue Epstein
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7 min read
“This has been a dream of mine for two years,” the Israeli consul confided to me a few nights ago. At this point I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it wasn’t a secret military mission we were talking about. It was wine. Of course. This slight-but-compact diplomat, dressed in

Hooked on Haggis

Michelle Locke
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3 min read
I was in Cognac one hot summer day, trying to make conversation with a producer who spoke about as much English as I do French, and the situation was getting  sticky in every way when he suddenly asked me whether I had been to Scotland. Yes, I had. Well, then,

Big country biodynamics in South Africa

Simon J Woolf
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4 min read
It's been said that you shouldn't trust a vigneron if they don't have soil under their fingernails. By that notion, I'm not sure what to make of Waterkloof's head winemaker Nadia Barnard when we meet at their commanding property in the windswept hills near Stellenbosch. Not only are her fingernails