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Getting a head start

My fascination with wine started some five years ago, on a trip to Cape Town’s Franschhoek region. It’s gone up a notch in the past two years since I’ve started collecting, sparked by the Bordeaux 2019 release, which I was happy to see recently reviewed in bottle Being in my late 20s and with some 2,000 bottles tucked away in storage, I feel fortunate and perhaps a little smug to be so ahead of the

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