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Wine of the Week

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Apr 12, 2011
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In 1429, during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc made her headquarters in Blois, a city that maintains a good deal of its Medieval and Renaissance character. Not that such a fact has tremendous bearing on today's Wine of the Week, except that Blois lies on the north bank of the Loire River, and if you cross the river at this point and drive south, yo…

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