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    DRINK

    Jun 30, 2021 2 minutes
    BILL KNOTT

    GETTING THE SACK

    ‘Duke Ellington? What was he doing there?’ asked a confused member of our group of wine writers.

    Artur Gama, the softly-spoken owner of Quinta da Boa Esperança in the hills north of Lisbon, was hosting an alfresco lunch, and one of our number hadn’t quite caught

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