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World Of Wine Reviews By Neil Charles Leather, rocks and hamster cages. The weird world of wine reviews... The past half century has brought about a sea change in the art and science of wine writing. Long ago, consumers relied upon learned articles or specialist journals to provide a...

Wines of the Veneto While the majority of Italian wine-producing areas are known primarily for one or two grape varieties – Sangiovese in Tuscany, Nebbiolo in Piedmont for example – the Veneto and its adjacent regions offer a bewildering array of grapes and wine types that range from frothy,...

Bordeaux Steeped in centuries of winemaking tradition, the stately and somewhat buttoned-down port city of Bordeaux lies on the Garonne river, close to its confluence with the Dordogne. Jointly, these two rivers become the Gironde estuary, which in turn flows north into the Atlantic Ocean. The combination of these...