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Wines of the Week

Wines of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Mar 14, 2011
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Why don't people drink more Chateauuneuf-du-Pape? Unfamiliarity with the grapes and the geography perhaps? A strange sort of name, maybe? Limited availability? Bad marketing?

In any case, Chateauneuf-du-Pape -- "the pope's new castle" -- deep in the southern Rhone Valley, north of Avignon, was the first wine region in France to be subject to rules of sel…

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