Wine belongs to everyone. So does understanding it. You can love a wine without knowing anything about it, and that’s fine. But there comes a moment when you want to

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Making wine is mostly about knowing when to do nothing. Between the grape and the glass there are a thousand possible gestures. Some winegrowers intervene a lot, others as little

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Before tasting a wine, you can learn to look at a leaf. The word comes from the Greek ampelos, vine, and graphein, to describe. Ampelography is the science that describes

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A wine never comes from nowhere. “Terroir” is a word that other languages have never really managed to translate. They often borrow it as it is. It gets used loosely,

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