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Wine of the Week

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Jul 16, 2012
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With Saturday night's pizza, I opened a bottle of the Castello di Volpaia Chianti Classico 2009, a wine drinking beautifully at not quite three years old.

The small hill town of Volpaia -- "fox's lair" -- dates to the 11th Century, established as a frontier outpost by Florence against Siena. The village retains much of its medieval appearance today, than…

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