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Clarification on the Pinot Thing

Clarification on the Pinot Thing

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Fredric Koeppel
Mar 10, 2007
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All right, I should have been more clear about my Proustian moment raking and bagging old leaves in the backyard last weekend that led to an explication of the "great Burgundy smells like shit" simile. Yes, great red Burgundy, made from pinot noir grapes, smells deeply earthy, loamy and mossy, with a touch of fleshy and sometimes slightly decayed and "b…

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