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What's the Deal with Malbec?

What's the Deal with Malbec?

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Fredric Koeppel
Sep 13, 2018
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It's tough to be a grape. You grow well and make distinctive wines in one climate and soil but perform dismally in a different climate and soil. You're susceptible to all manner of diseases and attract all sort of pests. Frost and hail bring you to your knees. You accumulate numerous aliases from region to region, so eventually people don't know who the…

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