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Andrew Jefford

How about this for an axiom: ‘There are no great hard wines’. Can you disprove it? Mature wines, for example, are loved by many; a great mature bottle often serves as inspiration and model for a lifetime’s drinking and collecting. What is successful maturity in a fine wine, other than a softening and mellowing of the gathered forces of youth? This may come at the cost

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