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Layers of Cake, But How about Layered Wines?

Layers of Cake, But How about Layered Wines?

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Fredric Koeppel
Aug 13, 2009
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Sometimes it almost doesn't pay to read the press material that comes with wine, or the back label, for that matter. For example, the back labels of Layer Cake wines carry this little story:

My old grandfather made and enjoyed wine for 80 years. He told me the soil in which vines lived were a layer cake. He said the wine, if properly made, was like a gre…

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