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Wine of the Day, No. 445

Wine of the Day, No. 445

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Fredric Koeppel
Nov 08, 2018
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Wine of the Day, No. 445
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Here's a potion that will warm the cockles of your heart on these chilly eves. By the way, that old expression has

nothing to do with "cockles and mussels, alive-alive oh," but is a popular corruption of the Latin cochleae cordis, for the ventricles of the heart. Anyway, the Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port 2012 is a large-framed, robust and supple-silky …

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