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THE COMEBACK THAT NEVER WENT AWAY

SEVERAL French philosophers have pronounced generalisations to be weak and dangerous from Montaigne to Alexandre Dumas. Fashion and trend writers don’t seem to have paid attention. Year-on-year they write that something is “over”, even when the derided product is still being produced by the truckload. Wine writers are equally guilty of pronouncing a varietal as old hat because the people they know have moved on or they are excited about another that isn’t new but has rebounded in popularity.

Late last year there was a spate of chardonnay comeback stories. A quick search on Google,

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