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Daunting prospect

When I first became interested in wine – in the early to mid-1960s – there was a limited range available in theand then his presaged a blossoming in the number of writers and TV personalities who started to push lesser-known regions and to commodify wine as an everyday drink. What then followed was the exposure of drinkers to the less well-known parts of the classic regions and the increased cultivation and marketing of what we may call the New World of wine.

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