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Seven Attractive White Wines from Italy and One Fatal Miscue

Seven Attractive White Wines from Italy and One Fatal Miscue

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Fredric Koeppel
Mar 22, 2008
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Many of the traditional grapes used to make white wine in Italy don't take kindly to oak. Occasionally (or too frequently nowadays) one runs upon a wine that has been forced through a barrel regimen and come out like a torturous caricature of itself. You want to call Switzerland and see if somehow the Geneva Convention has been violated. The example of …

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