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Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Nov 18, 2008
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Here's a full-bodied red wine for drinking with roasted and braised meat dishes on these chilly nights. The Quinto do Vallado 2006, produced in Portugal's Douro region, where the vineyards for Port are located, uses the tradition grapes of the area -- touriga nacional, touriga franca, tinta roriz, tinta amarela, tinta barroca and sousao -- to make a dry…

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